Public Defender Melton is Off The Topete Case, Should He Be Out as Public Defender?
Public Defender Barry Melton officially removed himself yesterday from the case of accused Sheriff’s Deputy killer, Marco…
Coroner’s Report on Taser Victim Answers Few Questions
The official report by Deputy Coroner James Andrade characterized the death of Ricardo Abrahams as accidental. He…
Topete Case Gets More Bizarre Rather Than Less
Just as you want to believe things will return to a more routine level in case of…
State Senate Majority Leader Calls For New Rules Protecting Public Access to Court Rooms
The recent problems in the Yolo County Courtroom have led one of the foremost legislative advocates for…
Commentary: Back to Square One in Case Involving the Killing of a Yolo County Sheriff’s Deputy
It was not surprising that a Sacramento court of appeal rejected the petition from the Yolo County…
Yolo County ACLU Requests Change of Venue for Topete Case
Many who read the Davis Enterprise on Sunday, undoubtedly saw the story that the Yolo County Chapter…
Sideshow Continues in Murder Trial; Chief Justice Called in To Help
California’s Chief Justice Ronald George has been asked to intervene in the Yolo Superior Court’s handling of…
Commentary: Defense Charges Yolo Courthouse Collusion
Just when we thought things would slowly return to some semblance of normal, Assistant Public Defender Dean…
Commentary: Report on Yolo County Court Incident Leaves Much Unanswered
On Monday, a report was released that attempted to explain how it came to be that the…
Commentary: Yolo County Courts: Just Who is In Charge Here?
I keep coming back to this case from the Yolo County Courts mainly because there is more…
Commentary: Davis Enterprise Gets It Right And Calls the Yolo County Courts On Their Conduct
It is one thing to see the Davis Vanguard complain about the conduct of public officials something…
Commentary: What Were They Thinking: Sheriff’s Department Keeps Court Building Doors Locked
In a bizarre series of events on Wednesday, the man accused of killing Yolo County Sheriff’s Deputy…
More on the Tasering Incident
Matt Rexroad’s blog drew my attention this morning to a letter to the editor in the Woodland…
Commentary: Death Penalty Case Weighs on Our System
In Friday’s Sacramento Bee is a story about Judge Stephen Mock ordering the death in the killing…
Commentary: Looking at the Taser Death of Ricardo Abrahams
It has been just over a week since the death of Ricardo Abrahams. According to accounts in…
Preliminary Gang Injunction Granted
The Sacramento Bee reports this morning that Judge Kathleen White has allowed the preliminary gang injunction to…
Gore and Lenzi Respond to District Attorney’s Office
Earlier this week, the human resource officials investigating the complaints by the District Attorney’s Senior Investigator Rick…
JUDGE ORDERS INVESTIGATION OF YOLO D.A. RECORDS TO IDENTIFY COLLUSION & DISCRIMINATORY PROSECUTION OF UNION ACTIVISTS
Order Comes One Year After Arrests and Two Weeks After Food Service Workers’ Victory Special to the…
Rick Gore completes Testimony on Gang Injunction
It was likely not the kind of testimony that those seeking to avoid a temporary gang injunction…
Commentary: Serena Case Continues to Illustrate Problems with Yolo County Justice System
This past weekend Former Yolo County Housing Authority Director David Serena was back in Yolo County, this…
