Commentary: Scientific Justice
By Christopher Bryson According to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, The Stanford University Computational Policy Lab…
My View: 14 years ago…
By David Greenwald That’s right, on this fateful day July 30, 2006, I came up with the…
Change.org Petition: Bring Ajay Dev Home
Ajay Dev is a 53-year-old father of two. He is currently serving a 378-year aggregated sentence in…
Sunday Commentary: Dealing with Wrongful Convictions and the False Allegations of Rape in the Me-Too Era
I grew up in the 80s and early 90s at a time when society was just recognizing…
Situation in California Prisons Precarious as First COVID Death Occurs at CDCR
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today announced an inmate from California Institution for Men…
Dev Hearing Postponed Again Until February as Both Sides Attempt to Get Translation of Prison Phone Conversations
It has been over a month since the last hearing on October 28 ended as the petitioner…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Couzens Illustrates Win at All Costs Approach that Puts Innocent People at Risk of this District Attorney
Analysis: Court Transcripts Show Mr. Couzens Setting Up the Ambush When Ryan J. Couzens, Deputy DA in…
Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here
According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units…
Couzens Ambushes Ajay Dev Team with a Transcript Trap
Monday’s evidentiary hearing of the ten-year-old Ajay Dev case began with more of the same from Deputy…
My View: DA Plays Hardball in Efforts to Free Ajay Dev
We are two weeks out from another evidentiary hearing for Ajay Dev, but perhaps the most telling…
Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 15: Ajay Dev Speaks from Prison for First Time
In 2009, Ajay Dev was wrongly convicted of 76 counts of raping his adopted daughter and sentenced…
Deputy DA’s Request for All of Dev’s Previous Attorney Files Denied
By Danielle Silva In light of Ajay Dev filing an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel claim, the prosecution’s…
My View: Ajay Dev Meets the Notorious Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Ryan J. Couzens
It is really too bad that they don’t allow cameras into courtrooms – I think the public…
Couzens Drags Ajay Dev Evidentiary Hearing Out for Hours
If there was hope that a series of evidentiary hearings in the decade-old Ajay Dev case would…
Sunday Commentary: If Reisig Wants to Be a Progressive Prosecutor – Here’s His Chance in the Dev Case
District Attorney Jeff Reisig has, strangely enough, two reputations. Some will tell you he’s actually one of…
Ten Years after He Was Sentenced to 378 Years, Ajay Dev Case Returns to Yolo County
The last time that Yolo County saw Ajay Dev’s case was in August 2009. Mr. Dev, having…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System
The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the…
Vanguard Court Watch TV, Episode 5 (Video) – Part 3 of Ajay Dev Case
Ajay Dev has been in prison for nearly 10 years for charges that many believe were unfounded….
Sunday Commentary: Deputy DA Mount’s Conduct in Court Shows Lack of Objectivity in Dev Case
At the court on Friday morning as Judge Janene Beronio was deciding when to schedule an evidentiary…
Defense Discusses Difficulties in Bringing New Witnesses in Ajay Dev Case
By Lauren Jaech The evidentiary hearing for Ajay Dev continued today with a discussion about bringing in…