Blog

Theft is the crime of taking someone else’s property without the owner’s permission with the intent of permanently depriving owner of their property.

As part of recent efforts to reduce the federal prison population, the United States Department of Justice has created new criteria for filing for clemency

Each year the United States Sentencing Commission releases statistics on federal crimes which often are used by the Commission when the Commission drafts new guidelines ...

The cities of Anaheim and Grand Terrace have decided to suspend enforcement of local sex offender ordinances that banned registered sex offenders from visiting public parks...

The Justice Department is broadening the criteria for clemency petitions making it easier for more federal prisoners to apply for clemency and a commutation of their sentence...

A California lawyer, on behalf of the CA Reform Sex Offender Laws (RSOL), has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the sex offender ordinance regulating the presence of sex offenders in the city...

The statute of limitations is the time limit a victim of a crime has for filing charges against the defendant...

Senator Leland Yee, a democrat who represents part of San Francisco and San Mateo County, in the midst of running for secretary of state, has been arrested for conspiring to traffic firearms and scheming to defraud citizens of honest services...

A married couple from Alameda County, Nanette Dillard and her husband, Paul Daniels were found guilty of grand theft

Four veteran San Francisco police officers have denied federal corruption charges which include drug-dealing...

Oakland police are now turning to social media outlets to help combat crime in the area...

Dr. Susan Hogan, the forensic pathologist who performed autopsies for Solano County, abruptly quit ...

A recent Supreme Court decision now allows police officers to conduct the search of a home without a warrant as long as one occupant gives consent, even though another resident may have already objected...

A prison doctor from Valley State Prison for Women is reportedly responsible for hundreds of sterilizations and tubal ligations of females without state approval...

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down California’s concealed weapon restrictions...

The prison overcrowding case Plata/Coleman v. Brown made way for a time extension given to the State of California to reduce inmate population...

Four Lake County residents have been charged with murder even though they were not involved in the victim’s death...

U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autry in St. Louis, Missouri recently issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the St. Louis County town of Ellsville from giving citations and charging drivers who flash their ...

The Justice Department is working towards gaining Clemency for low-level drug criminals who were sentenced during the period when there were strict laws around the crack epidemic...

Max Wade, who became notorious for stealing a $200,000 Lamborghini from a car dealership and attempting to murder...

Randy Shill, a 45 year old man, approached a 16 year- old high school girl at a fundraising event at his children’s high school and complemented her on her looks. The next day he sent her a friend request on Facebook and sent a message to her saying that she looked...

Jane Kim of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco wants to eliminate an employer’s inquiry into a job applicant’s criminal history on job applications in San Francisco.

With the 5 billion cell phone records that the National Security Agency collects each day, they are tracking the whereabouts...

In 2013, Tirey tried to petition for a certificate of rehabilitation so that he could be removed from the sex offender registration list. Although it appeared that the trial court found Mr. Tirey otherwise eligible for a certificate of rehabilitation, the court...

The District Attorney of San Francisco is currently investigating the San Francisco Fire Department after firefighter Michael Quinn...