Mr. Isaiah Bennett requested a hearing to determine if he’d violated his probation. This wasn’t the first time he’d violated it, and Judge Ann Moorman was tired of him appearing before her as if he…
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The sensational DUI trial of a lawyer for the Office of the Public Defender, Lindsay Peak, ended in a mistrial before we could cover the second week of testimony, so there’s a lot of catching…
UPDATE: Moorman just granted a mistrial in Peak driving case. Document disclosure the issue. Jury had sent notice a verdict had been reached. But jurors sent home after mistrial declared. Not sure what verdict was.…
The first 911 call said that someone was dropping rocks off the Perkins Street overpass onto Highway 101. When Patrol Sergeant Noble Waidelich of the CHP arrived he could see rocks in the roadway, some…
Kent Donald Gladden, 57, of Ukiah, has been accused of running over a pedestrian, Cindy Long, December 9, 2017 at approximately 7:40pm, in the driveway to the Overnighter Trailer Park at 700 E. Gobbi Street in Ukiah. Testimony…
It was a hard-hearted jury last week that turned a deaf ear to most of the pleadings of Wesley Murphy’s lawyer, public defender Jonathan Opet. The jury refused to believe that Mr. Murphy was only a homeless vagabond who merely needed a warm place to sleep and a roof over his head in the wet weather when he was found in a trailer with 172 pounds of market-ready Mendo Purple and a fully loaded AR-15 assault rifle.
Carlos Gutierrez was charged with negligent discharge of a firearm, even though it was the first day of hunting season and Mr. Gutierrez was way up in the National Forest. If a firearm is negligently…
The prelim for Eugene ‘Bear’ Lincoln and his sister Sonia Lincoln began last week and ended severed, like a live worm, both ends wriggling inconclusively on the conscience of the court. Google maps of Covelo…
All of the county’s current homicide cases are on hold. There’s quite a few and with one thing and another, all have stalled out. Let’s start with a couple we thought were finished. Simon Thornton…