62-year old Janette Krigian lives west of Laytonville on Branscomb Road and, as a tough guy from Oakland recently discovered, “the lady has a lot of balls.” This is what D’Wan Porter-Walker, 20, of Oakland,…
Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”
It got pretty exciting at the Courthouse last Thursday evening. Wait, strike that! Exciting is too puny a term for the breathtaking exhilaration whistling through the ancient halls of justice. The sense of anticipation was…
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…
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…