Guest Commentary: Allow Judges to Reconsider Life without Parole Sentences
Senate bill reflects changes in California law and evidence of rehabilitation and redemption By LaDoris Cordell California…
COURT WATCH: Yolo Man Remains Behind Bars as Yolo Judge Ponders Bail after Overturned Jury Verdict
WOODLAND, CA – During Justin Gonzalez’s bail hearing Monday here in Yolo County Superior Court, Judge Sam…
Guest Commentary: ‘Felony Murder’ Laws Impose Punishment that Doesn’t Fit the Crime or Keep Us Safer
All but two U.S. states allow murder charges even if an individual did not directly cause or…
Justin Gonzalez Case Comes Back to Yolo after Murder Conviction Overturned
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Five years after Justin Gonzalez and Alexis Velazquez…
SF Judge Grants Evidentiary Hearing in Racial Justice Act Motion to Dismiss Special Circumstance Allegations
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – In what is believed to be the…
Bill Would Allow Judicial Review of Special Circumstance Offenses
Special to the Vanguard A coalition is co-sponsoring California Senate Bill 94 sponsored by Senator Dave Cortese. …
Harvest Davidson Spent Nearly Six Years Fighting Murder Cases in El Dorado County Jail – Now He’s Released
by Robert J. Hansen South Lake Tahoe, CA – Earlier this month one of five men who…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 180: Felony Murder Elimination Project
This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Joanne Scheer, whose son’s incarceration on felony murder, special…
Bill Aiming to Reduce LWOP Sentences Headed to Assembly for Final Vote
By Robert J Hansen Sacramento, CA – A bill that would expand judicial discretion to judges, allowing…
Public Defender Files Motion to Recuse Judge and DA in Orange County Case
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Santa Ana, CA – Back in November 2020, David Valladares filed…
Bill That Reforms LWOP for Felony Murder Advances through Public Safety Committee
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – Supporters are bracing for rougher sailing for a…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 157: Michael Gaines Gets Life for Crime He Didn’t Commit
This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Bree and Malissa Hurry about the case of Michael…
New Report Charges Felony Murder Laws ‘At Odds with Rest of World’
By Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – An “extensive analysis of the United States’ fundamentally flawed felony murder laws,”…
Commentary: El Dorado County Judge’s Mistaken Claim that New Felony Murder Law Unconstitutional Has Led to Wrongful Convictions
By Robert J. Hansen In May 2019, Judge Mullen declared California Senate Bill 1437 unconstitutional when the…
Follow-Up Report on the Effectiveness of SB 1437 – Overwhelming Majority of Applicants Denied
By Julian Verdon, Samuel Van Blaricom, Jake Wylie, Carson Eschen, and Gwyn Redemann **This report is a…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 143: Smart Justice California Talks about Justice Reform Efforts
Anne Irwin and Natasha Minsker of Smart Justice California join Everyday Injustice this week to talk about…
Harvest Davidson and Tevares Lopez of Tahoe 5 Back in Court, Judge Arrives Over 20 Minutes Late
By Robert J. Hansen After the judge was 30 minutes late, Tevares Lopez and Harvest Davidson, and…
Guest Commentary: Dennis Jones – Remembering a Lifer & Our Campaign to Free Him
By Lisa Rea I first met Dennis Jones by letter around 1993 through an introduction by Peter…
Court Reverses Sentence for Mule Creek Resident
By Dale Hurd Mule Creek resident Jose Rivera’s sentence of life without the possibility of parole (LWOP)…
Tevarez Lopez, One of the ‘Tahoe 5’ Who Prosecutors Knew Was Not There, Convicted of Murder, Prepares to Appeal
By Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA – On November 30, 2021, Tevarez Richard Lopez was found guilty…
