Man Writes Vanguard about His Fight for Relief under SB 1437, for Murder He Did Not Commit
By Linh Nguyen EL DORADO COUNTY – In 2016, Tevarez Lopez was arrested as an accomplice in…
CA Supreme Court Rules SB 1437 Allows Relief for Defendant Who “Aided and Abetted” in Crime Resulting in Murder
By Linhchi Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court Thursday reversed a Court of Appeal’s decision…
Brief Filed on SB 1437 Alleges Courts Failing to Appoint Counsel and Summarily Denying Resentencing Petitions
By Julian Verdon and Linhchi Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO – A law that was supposed to allow people…
Will Court Grant Evidentiary Hearing in 2002 Halloween Homicide Case?
by David M. Greenwald WOODLAND – Many believe that three men who were ultimately convicted in the…
Appellate Court Again Declares SB 1437 Constitutional, Accepts Appellant’s Petition to Appeal Conviction
By Yuanqi Ivy Zhou SANTA CLARA – The Sixth Appellate Court has accepted the petition of appellant…
Atlanta Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Charged with Felony Murder
By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider ATLANTA— Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer placed on administrative leave for shooting and…
Court Reverses Denial of Petition for Release as SB 1437 Continues to Be Found Constitutional
By Dominique Kato CALIFORNIA – The Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, reversed the trial court’s denial of…
Second District Court of Appeals Instructs Los Angeles County Superior Court to Continue Previously Denied Resentencing Petition
By Linh Nguyen The California Second District Court of Appeal heard an appeal in which two defendants…
Constitutionality of SB 1437 Reaffirmed in Second District Court of Appeal
By Linh Nguyen Despite the Ventura County District Attorney’s arguments that SB 1437 is unconstitutional in that…
Man Convicted of Second-Degree Murders and Gross Vehicular Manslaughter Denied Petition for Resentencing
By Shellsea Lomeli KERN COUNTY, CA – The Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment of…
Man’s Attempted Murder Conviction Overturned in Appellate Court under SB 1437 Decision
By Danielle Silva California – The Fifth Appellate Court overturned an attempted murder conviction under another SB…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 51 – Lamoureux and SB 1437
In November of 2019, the 4th District Court of Appeal in the cases of Lamoureux and Gooden…
Man Who Served 11 Years for Second-Degree Murder Will Be Released This May
By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO – With both the defendant’s family members and the victim’s dad present…
Resentencing and Release Approved for Previously Convicted Felony Murderer
By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO- On Feb. 21, 2020, at 850 Bryant St. in Department 25, a…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 44: Senator Nancy Skinner
Senator Nancy Skinner has authored some of the most important criminal justice legislation in the state. Senator…
CA Supreme Court Denies Request to Review the SB 1437 Constitutionality Ruling
By Danielle Silva On Feb. 19, 2020, the California Supreme Court denied the depublication and review requests…
Sacramento Judge Admits He Doesn’t Like It, but Releases Woman from Murder Conviction
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raoul M. Thorbourne this…
SB 1437 Hearings in San Francisco
Lifer to be re-sentenced after 33 years in prison; Re-sentencing denied to defendant in 1991 hostage taking…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 39 – Tirpak Spends 25 Years Wrongly Imprisoned, Freed by SB 1437
Early in 2019, Michael Tirpak became the third person released from prison under SB 1437. He had…
Man to Be Freed after 45 Years Following Resentencing Under SB 1437
On Wednesday Zachary Vanderhorst will be a free man for the first time since late 1974, when…
