Suspect in home invasion robbery in high speed chase Saturday: SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) — San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies in a helicopter shot a suspect involved in a dangerous wrong-way chase and car crash on the northbound 215 Freeway Friday afternoon. On Saturday, the coroner’s office identified the suspect as Nicholas Alan Johnson, 32, of Fontana. Two cars were involved in the crash near Palm Avenue. A man and
AB109
September 21, 2015
Information about the San Bernardino helicopter shooting you will NOT see in the press [Darleen Click]
April 19, 2014
CA Gov Jerry Brown’s ‘prison realignment’ racks up more victims [Darleen Click]
Here’s just another example in the long line of “non-violent offenders” being released from state prison under AB109. A man on probation as a “non-violent offender” under California’s prison realignment program has been charged with kidnapping, raping, and torturing a 16-year-old girl in South Los Angeles, and detectives suspect he may be connected to three other recent murders. Robert L. Ranson, 30, was arrested in late March after the girl
March 8, 2014
Unexpected! Confounding! [Darleen Click]
Proof of the death of basic reporter skills in modern J-school grads. From Ass.Press: California counties are confounding the state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of second-strikers. The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining Gov. Jerry Brown’s 3-year-old realignment law that restructured California’s criminal justice system to keep lower-level felons out
November 6, 2013
Our Royal Federal Judiciary [Darleen Click]
California, caught in the perfect storm of one-party rule and Federal dictatorship. California has long been the epicenter of prison litigation. But for cataclysmic force and sheer staying power, nothing beats two massive and now inextricably intertwined class-action lawsuits. The Prison Law Office, California’s leading prisoner-rights organization, filed a suit in 1990 arguing that the mental health care provided to the state’s mentally ill inmates violated the U.S. Constitution. A