It has been almost a year now since the legalization of rec(reational) pot and people are still getting busted for it — so what’s up with that? It is a question I get asked a…
Posts published by “McEwen Bruce”
A number of the lawyers at the Office of the Public Defender have communicated certain innuendos about your trusty courthouse correspondent, namely that I am too friendly with law enforcement personnel and the lawyers from…
Clevon Grant, nabbed by the long arm of the law, was in court last week, and I had to sit through his failure to appear hearing just to button-hole District Attorney David Eyster on a…
Caleb Silver, standing trial for what prosecutor Tim Stoen called “the frenzied murder” – 11 hammer blows to the head, and a throat slashing that was so ferocious it splattered the walls with blood –…
According to his wife, Veronica, Boonville native Jessie Slotte, a heavily decorated veteran of the war in Iraq, threw her to the ground, put the boots to her, dragged her behind the car, then kidnapped…
The County Courthouse is in a state of change, a bustling mass of lawyers moving in many different directions. The seething flux and flow includes several lawyers who have left the Office of the Public…
We often hear it said that Mendocino County is this wondrous place where each day starts anew and you can be whoever you say you are. All you need is a little hocus-pocus, abracadabra, and…
When Ukiah Police Officer Adam Elledge arrived at the ExpressMart on South State Street about 5pm on July 25th, he saw defendant Sequoyah Pickner on the ground, being held down by civilian Troy Van Patten.…
The Orange Angels as they are affectionately known to our readers who suggested the AVA give a great big shout-out of appreciation to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) inmates who volunteer to…