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Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”

Clean Water For Indians

The local marijuana community is ecstatic over the DA’s dropping of pot charges against Mark and Dana Wuerfel. If you came in late the Wuerfels…

Music Festival Roundup

The high point was a fantastic figure about 15 feet tall in gleaming red satin pants surrounded by a mob of brightly dressed and face-painted…

You Weren’t Arrested, You Were Rescued!

Crime, Elmore Leonard tells us, is always half-baked and always goes off half-cocked. The popular novelist’s dictum is validated almost weekly here in Mendocino County.…

The Laytonville Lady & The .357

Timothy Burger, 21, of Sacramento, was shot dead early the morning of October 30th, 2010 during a home invasion robbery attempt at a home on…

Should Tim ‘Coke’ Elliott Get A New Trial?

“I respect Ms. Thompson, but this is basic stuff, right out of criminal law procedure 101,” attorney Jan Cole-Wilson said. “Any lawyer should know this.”…

They All Steal, Said The Liberal

Reading the Gualala-based Independent Coast Observer during a lunch break at the Courthouse, I was interrupted by Mark Wuerfel. This was scarcely a nuisance.

The Wuerfel Whirl

Over and over the Wuerfel case convenes in Ukiah court with a great feeling of expectation that something is about to happen — but it…

Beginning To See The Light

Thomas Knight was looking at four years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. He'd gotten into a fight with a friend. Maybe the…

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