A Ukiah man, Tony Fernandez, has been bound over for trial on a charge of false imprisonment after a lengthy preliminary hearing last week. False imprisonment is one of those charges that the courts call…
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The Fifth Annual Not-So-Simple Living Fair at the Boonville Fairgrounds saw an avid throng of attendees. The event is hugely popular and crucial to a growing and widely diverse demographic of Mendocino County. That demographic…
“It was all over a bottle of ketchup — this alleged shooting — along with some missing cheese and beer,” Public Defender Linda Thompson told the jury. “Now, my client, Kathleen Woolsey, has had some…
Slow week at the County Courthouse last week. In recent years we’ve had some riveting murder trials in the summertime, but this year, so far, the most sensational murder, that of a prominent physician’s wife,…
Another wifebeater was in court this week. There seem to be armies of them out there. Used to be the woman's male relatives took care of the beater. Anymore, it's one more unhappy task for…
Tyler Elza was shocked when his jury took only an hour to tell him he was a woman-beating son of a bitch. Elza couldn't believe it. Hell, the woman had just told the jury that…
Bryan Kann was so amped on methamphetamine that it would be whole days and many lost nights before he could sleep. And there was nothing at all to do but bounce endlessly around the house, waiting for whatever tweekers wait for. At 3am, Kann found something to do.
All the defense had to do was stipulate, a fancy word for 'admit,' to the prior DUIs in the Joan Rainville case and make the prosecution prove Rainville had assaulted two unharmed persons, neither of…
Is a vehicle a deadly weapon? Or is it just a big, benign baby carriage? Depends on how it's used. This is the question in the case against Joan E. Rainville, charged with Assault With…