The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is a federal agency that is in charge of keeping track of the nation’s 300 million guns, firearms, the illegal trafficking of alcohol and cigarettes, and regulation of the explosives industry and with a budget of only $1 billion...
Most of the staff at the Valley Manor Residential Care facility in Castro Valley walked out on residents recently and left the sick and elderly to fend for themselves until paramedics arrived. The facility was ordered to close by the Department of Social Services...
Jared James Abrahams, 19, a Southern California computer science student pleaded guilty to hacking the computers of several young women including the computers...
Since 1991, Daniel Grijalva, has been arrested 98 times. Most recently he came to the attention of the police when he was...
J.P. Morgan Chase has agreed to pay $13 billion to settle allegations surrounding the quality of mortgage-backed securities it sold during the 2008 financial crisis...
About 24 current and former members of the Arizona Air National Guard have been charged with theft (18 USC Section 641) and money laundering (18 USC Section 1956) in...
We are pleased to report that we have prevailed once again in a client's DUI case by not only ensuring that no charges were filed in court against her but also by prevailing in her Administrative Per Se DMV hearing in Oakland. The client was arrested ...
The federal case of Doe vs. Alter has to do with the filing of a civil suit for damages by a large civil law firm on behalf of the mother of two children who were allegedly used to produce certain child pornography. The suit has been brought against over 250 defendants...
The defendant, Armando Guillen, was charged by a complaint with three offenses: felony possession of methamphetamine...
Former Alameda County Superior Court Judge, Paul Seeman, was charged with 32 felonies for ...
France recently sent President Obama numerous complaints about NSA surveillance that has internationally crossed the line when it comes to American Spying...
Adam Bartsch, a federal air marshal, has been arrested and accused of...
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and the American Civil Liberties Union opened a campaign intended to pass a measure...
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...
Officer Romeo Aberin was arrested Monday after soliciting a $500 bribe from a suspect in exchange for letting the woman slide by in a prescription forgery case. Alameda County prosecutors charged him with extortion under...
Cameron D’Ambrosio was at one point held in Boston without bail and charged as a terrorist under 18 U.S.C Section 871 after posting rap lyrics he wrote on his Facebook page. The teen’s song contained what seemed like a reference to the Boston Marathon bombing and calls the White House a “federal house of horror.” Due to this act of free speech which posed no specific threat to anyone, the 18 year-old...
It was revealed that the National Security Agency has been collecting data on U.S. citizens' phone calls and email logs, but now they have gone one step further by collecting metadata information on Americans' social connections which can then reveal...
The NSA has directed a special investigative unit of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), comprised of agents from the FBI, DEA, CIA, IRS, DHS and other agencies, to gather and funnel information seized from and about American citizens in an effort to...
In an outrageous disclosure, it was recently revealed that the NSA (National Security Agency) has been directly targeting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Documents for the NSA in 2012 have been cited in claims that
Former bartender Jodi Simms, who worked for Private Investigator Chris Butler, testified this week at the federal corruption trial of former Contra Costa Deputy Sheriff Stephen Tanabe. Tanabe is being prosecuted in Federal court for making prearranged arrests in DUI cases at the request of a friend, private investigator Chris Butler, in exchange for $200 in cocaine and a pistol. Prosecutors said that...
In a purported effort to crack down on prostitution and human trafficking and close massage parlors, San Francisco Supervisor Katy Tang is introducing legislation that is onerous to owners of massage parlors, requiring them to pay fines and increasing notification of violations.
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...
California prisons are facing scrutiny by the federal justice system based on their solitary confinement practices, inadequate medical care, and forced sterilization of female prisoners, among other things. A recent ruling requires the release of nearly...
In a remarkable turn of events, United States Atty. Gen. Eric Holder mentioned in his keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco that he is ordering a change in Federal Department of Justice policy such that low-level, nonviolent federal drug offenders will not be charged with offenses that impose a mandatory minimum sentence.
It’s always easy to second guess another lawyer’s actions but the San Francisco criminal defense lawyers who are representing Internet Mogul Gurbaksh Chahal have not fared well to date in their defense of this cyber celebrity.
“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.”
