Rey Reyes shot his stepson dead a year ago in Laytonville. The shooting occurred on a Wednesday night, December the 1st, 2010. Reyes' murder trial began December 4th of this year. Reyes, 51, Colin Champlin,…
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Defense attorney Keith Faulder is a long-time friend of DA David Eyster. Faulder is also a former senior prosecutor. Faulder said recently, “I told Dave if he’s going to keep filing these shit cases, then…
Willie Braxton Williams went down last week. He's been a Courthouse fixture for many years, the recipient of vast stores of leniency and judicial understanding, but he finally went down, which just goes to show…
They’re Here, There and Everywhere, the proliferation of gangs in Mendocino County. Our headline writers decided this sweepingly inclusive distillation would just about cover all the bases. But it turns out to have been something…
The Occupy Hendy Woods project was organized by a group of local 20-somethings — Cyd Bernstein, Leah Collins, Charlie Paget-Seekins, Polly Bates, Keevan Labowitz, and Laili Valitoonzidai plus non-20-something Diane Paget — the Magnificent Seven,…
Last week, a juvenile delinquent being tried as an adult for attempted murder was looking at attempted murder plus four other criminal counts and 11 special allegations that will get him 70 years in prison…
The judges played musical chairs at the Courthouse last week. Her Honor Ann C. Moorman became the new judge of Department A, the County’s main criminal court, which made the lawyers from the Public Defender’s…
Alex Hurtado, a juvenile, will be tried as an adult on charges of attempted murder. Details are sketchy because Assistant DA Paul Sequiera says he’s “waiting for more information.” The detectives working the case are…
Here in Mendocino County, intoxicant capitol of the United States, there's a grape glut and there's a marijuana glut, both caused by too many people on the production end of the product. There's also a…