Conditions at the Sacramento County Jail
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Sexual Harassment Starts At The Top
Randy Rainbow’s parody of #45 does a great job of pointing out how ridiculous the system has been and how it was stacked against women and victims. https://www.facebook.com/RandyRainbowOfficial/videos/1307328809369059/ Speaking …
Tracking the Sherri Papini Investigation
Remember Sherri Papini? She is the woman who went missing in Redding on November 2, 2016. Her husband reported her missing after she apparently went out for a jog …
Gun Laws Need To Change
After every mass shooting in this country there is an intensive but brief debate about gun laws. The wake of the Las Vegas shooting is no different. California has …
Prosecuting Ponzi Schemes: What We Can Learn From Martin Shkreli’s Trial
Remember Martin Shkreli? I wrote about him some months ago. Shkreli’s securities fraud trial started last week. He became the poster child for all that is wrong with the …
The Stink At California’s Board of Equalization
Is there something rotten in the California Board of Equalization? Jerry Brown and Xavier Becerra seem to think so. Becerra, California’s Attorney General, is investigating certain members of the …
Bracamontes and Silva: A Tale of Two Change of Venue Requests
Luis Bracamontes is trying to get his trial moved out of Sacramento County. His lawyers are arguing that the inordinate amount of publicity surrounding his case, and the fact …
The Opioid Crisis is Criminal, But Will Pill Pushers Be Prosecuted?
Two weeks ago the State of Ohio sued five major drug companies for their role in the opioid epidemic. This lawsuit echoes one filed earlier in the year by …
Inmate Abuse in County Jails: All Too Common, All Too Invisible
Three Placer County Sheriff’s deputies were arrested on Wednesday on charges of excessive force involving at least six different inmates at the Placer County Auburn Main Jail. The allegations …
Jeff Sessions’ War on Effective Criminal Justice Reform
Jeff Sessions recently released a memo to all U.S. Attorneys. The memo directs U.S. Attorney’s offices across the country to charge the most serious crime they can in all …