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California’s Death Penalty: The Decision No One Wants to Make
After nearly twenty years without an execution, the more pressing question is whether the state is willing to decide what should happen to the 573 – and increasing – number of inmates already sentenced to death. Executions have stopped while death…
San Francisco’s Recovery—and Its Lessons
A few years ago, I was one of San Francisco’s harshest critics. Writing for the Pacific…
On The David Lucero Case: The Victims Left Behind
When David Lucero went to work one night in June 2013, he wasn’t thinking about criminal justice…
The Search for Police Racism: A Narrative of Data,…
In 2020, following nationwide protests after George Floyd’s murder, California began an ambitious…
On Juvenile Justice Policy Debates Driven By Untested…
Two 2026 bills—Assembly Bill 1902 by Asm. Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz) and the failed “Lorenso’s…
The habeas contempt trap
A contempt-of-court trap has been created by two federal judges issuing conflicting and irreconcilable orders on the same illegal alien on the same day. The executive branch cannot comply with one without automatically violating the other. The alien…
Man convicted on gun charge related to Edina ’25…
Amiir Mawlid Ali, now age 19, was convicted this afternoon on a felony gun charge after a three-day…
Gbor sentenced to 6 years for fentanyl dealing
Last week, Akeem Edwine Gbor, age 34, was sentenced to six (6) years in federal prison for fentanyl…
Felon in possession
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, now aged 20, made his first appearance yesterday in federal court charged…
900 lb. meth bust, 2 convictions, 0 media
It was a big deal when it happened last July, the second 900-pound meth bust of the summer of 2025.…
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