Brock Turner, Former Stanford Swimmer Appeals Sexual Assault Conviction
Brock Turner was found guilty of sexual assault and seeks to appeal his conviction. Turner was convicted on three counts of ...
Brock Turner was found guilty of sexual assault and seeks to appeal his conviction. Turner was convicted on three counts of ...
Many people think of the American Criminal Justice system as an institution that punishes those who are guilty of committing a crime, but never being punishing someone for a crime they may commit someday in the future...
Galen Underwood,40, a veteran San Mateo County Sheriff's deputy, was arraigned on seven felony counts for molesting a 17-year-old family member over a six year period. Underwood was charged...
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga sentenced two teens to 29 years to life and 33 years to life for their alleged participation in a brutal gang rape of a Richmond High School girl that occurred four years ago. The defendants had argued they were at the scene but that they didn’t participate to the extent alleged and that the police coerced false confessions from the suspects and that...
“The death penalty is a lie, a misguided mistake born of anger and frustration. Capital punishment has become a perverse monument to inequality, to how some lives matter and others do not. It is a violent example of how we protect and value the rich and abandon and devalue the poor. The death penalty is a grim, disturbing shadow formed by the legacy of racial apartheid and bias against the poor that condemns the disfavored among us, but corrupts us all. It’s the perverse symbol elected officials use to strengthen their ‘tough on crime’ reputations and distract us from confronting the causes of violence. It is finally the enemy of grace, redemption and all of us who recognize that each person is more than their worse act.”