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Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”

A Letter to the Defense Bar

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…

Failure To Appear

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…

A Frenzied Murder

Caleb Silver, standing trial for what prosecutor Tim Stoen called “the frenzied murder” – 11 hammer blows to the head, and a throat slashing that…

Charges Against Jessie Slotte Doubted

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…

Courthouse Rotates The Tires

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…

Gandalf’s Grenades

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…

Everclear & Gasoline

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…

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