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…
Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”
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…
The check fraud case against Christopher Mulcahy continued to crawl through Judge Behnke’s court last week with all the drama of a snail’s progress through a vegetable patch. Late in the week, DA David Eyster…
A third week of testimony that only a Scottish banker could follow without falling asleep was lowlighted by close scrutiny of the many checks and other documents defendant Chris Mulcahy may or may not have…
The story of Brutocao Family wine fortune — available on their website — follows the classic early immigrant trajectory of struggle over multiple generations until at long last the good life is finally achieved. But…
Jesus Christ has made a rare appearance in the Mendocino County Courthouse. He’d been living a fairly unremarkable life in Ukiah, especially considering who He is, disguised as John Francis Sullivan Jr., until He realized He was the son of God Himself. Well, you say, we're all God's children, aren't we? Yes, but there's only one Jesus, the child God dispatched in a vain attempt to straighten us out.
No matter how law-abiding you are, you are likely to tighten your grip on the wheel when a police interceptor appears in your rearview mirror. If you don't, you are too medicated to be driving…
Eric Galloway crossed the double yellow line on the Coyote Valley Reservation north of Ukiah, giving Tribal Officer Greg Salisbury probable cause to pull him over. When Officer Salisbury got up to Mr. Galloway’s vehicle…