714-997-4400Orange County Evidence Audit Discovers Misconduct
California prosecutors who are found withholding or falsifying evidence can be charged with a felony and be sentenced to prison time owing to Assembly Bill 1909. Prosecutors who are found guilty can be sentenced to 16 months to two or three years in prison. We wrote about this subject in October 2016. The legislation came […]
California Ends Felon Jury Exclusion
Nearly one year ago, we wrote to inform our readers that the United States Supreme Court does not recognize the right to sit on a jury as fundamental. This means that states can bar men and women from taking part in the adjudicative process for a myriad of reasons; the ban is known as Felon […]
Inmates Fighting Fires: A Second Chance
People living in the State of California are no strangers to wildfires. Each year, the fire season gets worse than the previous one. Millions of acres burn each year, placing both homes and human lives at significant risk. The damage would be far worse if it were not for the brave men and women who […]
ALPRs: Automatic License Plate Readers
In less than a year, police dashboard cameras are scheduled for an upgrade, which will enable them to scan the license plate of many cars automatically. Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) use artificial intelligence to scan three lanes of traffic simultaneously, CNET reports. While the technology is appealing for several reasons, some critics are raising […]
Hillside Strangler Still Filing Appeals
The saga of the “Hillside Stranglers” continues. We’ve mentioned Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. in a previous post. Kenneth A. Bianchi, along with his cousin Buono was convicted of multiple murders in the late 1970s. For the last 40 years, Bianchi has filed multiple lawsuits and more than a dozen personal restraint petitions professing his innocence […]
“Rapid DNA” Testing Concerns
DNA evidence is an invaluable asset to law enforcement agencies across the country. Microscopic genetic material can lead to the arrest of criminals who do their best to evade detection. Before the advent of DNA sequencing, detectives had to go to extraordinary lengths to meet the burden of proof. They often had to rely on […]
AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act
Privacy is vital to every American. In the Internet Age, it is difficult to maintain a small digital footprint. Each time we search the internet, our personal information is being logged and then used to target us via advertisements. Cameras have come a long way in recent years too. Street corners in major cities are […]
Former OCDA Misappropriated Funds
In 2017, Scott Evan Dekraai was sentenced to eight life sentences following a protracted legal battle. Many Californians and those living across the country likely remember the 2011 Salon Meritage massacre that left eight people dead in Seal Beach, California. The mass murder and subsequent trial were remarkable for several reasons, perhaps a salvo of […]
The Marshall Project: News Inside
Lawrence Bartley once lived at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a notorious maximum-security prison in Upstate New York. He was an inmate, of course, serving a sentence for second-degree murder, NBC News reports. When he was 17 years old, he was in a gunfight; the year was 1990. After 27 years, Bartley is now on parole, […]