The Public Defender’s Office in this county doesn't do much to earn their nice salaries. A recent letter in the AVA from a man at the jail complained at length about how lazy the County-paid…
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Stanley Scott almost went to trial on Monday for transportation of marijuana, a violation of section 11360 of the Health & Safety Code. The previous Friday Scott had tried to get the evidence against him…
Sex crimes are about as ugly as it gets in a courtroom, and for the next few weeks that’s what it’s going to be in the Mendocino County Courthouse — ugly — with three sex cases stacked up, back to back.
Evan Morris was sentenced last week for a crime spree that ended last fall at the Forest Club bar in downtown Ukiah. Morris was already on probation for domestic abuse and driving under the influence,…
The jury and all charges were dismissed last week in the vehicular manslaughter case brought by The People against Ms. Helen A. Leslie. Ms. Leslie is the very picture of a retired schoolteacher, a little…
When Governor Jerry Brown took office the feds told him to reduce California's prison population or face sanctions, so the Governor came up with the "re-alignment" program re-aligning state prison inmates to county jails.
C. David Eyster is the Mendocino County District Attorney. The C. stands for Caesar, at least in the opinion of a certain element of local law enforcement, a close-knit group stitched together for the practical…
You take your victims where you find them. “Our victims are not always what we’d like,” Deputy DA Shannon Cox informed Judge Ann Moorman last week at the end of a particularly ugly preliminary hearing.…
The week started out with two jury trials on Monday, but by early Tuesday both cases were out the window. The first one was a DUI wherein the defendant, Joshua Pollard, had reached across from the passenger seat and grabbed the wheel while his girlfriend was driving, causing a crash into another vehicle.