It’s been a while since we’ve seen Judge Clayton Brennan in a Ukiah courtroom, but he was on the bench during a preliminary hearing last week and he’s to be commended for refusing, although the…
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Joshua Ruoff’s trial for the murder of Timothy Sweeting ended in a verdict of guilty of first degree murder last Friday, despite his lawyer, Jan Cole-Wilson, telling the jury they couldn’t do it, that they…
The murder trial for Joshua Ruoff got under way last week after three days of intense jury selection, due to a reluctance on the part of those summoned to spend two weeks of their summer…
THURSDAY, June 14, was the day that Public Defender Linda Thompson stepped down. As the readership knows, the Mighty AVA will not miss her, and since her significant other owns a tract of land larger than our County Seat, and her pension package, though modest by the standards of other County Dignitaries, she probably doesn’t need our blessing for her retirement to be complete and satisfying.
Miguel Gonzales, of La Quinta, was talking on his cell phone while driving and got pulled over by Deputy Craig Walker. Mr. Gonzales was high on heroin and he was driving someone else’s car —…
Joseph Wayne Mork, a face perennially in the booking logs, made fresh and urgent news over a year ago when he and his lame lookout, Frank Freitas, were brought up on charges of ripping off…
Harry Miller, 69, of Anchor Bay, was held to answer on two counts of attempted murder last week in Superior Court for first shooting his neighbor Paul Palastrini, 62, also of Anchor Bay, and then…