Judge Sonia Cortes of the Yolo County Superior Court denied a request by Privately Appointed Defense Attorney Melody Yasuda for a Pitchess motion to access Officer Hawkinson’s personnel records, citing the officer’s limited role in the investigation and the defense’s lack of documentation.
By Mansour Taleb-Ahmed OAKLAND, CA – Police misconduct has been alleged in the case of Khalil Shawn…
By David M. Greenwald Orange County, CA – An Orange County judge denied a motion by defense…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Hours before the Labor Day holiday began Friday, things…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A “Pitchess” motion heard Wednesday in Superior Court here…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – There may, or may not be, a dirty cop…
I wrote a pretty scathing op-ed that was published Friday in our premium newsletter, on the Democratic…
By Crescenzo Vellucci The body camera – or lack thereof – of a University of California police…
The term Catch-22 was coined by author Joseph Heller in his 1961 novel, a term he used…
Judge David Reed set the Paul Fullerton matter for preliminary hearing, as requested by Deputy District Attorney…
Judge David Reed continued a hearing to a later date to decide whether a Pitchess motion should…
In the article we ran over the weekend, Peter Bibring and Catherine Wagner write that, while police…