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Posts published by “McEwen Bruce”

Neighborhood Wars

Something was happening. Courthouse security people were on their radios talking with the bailiffs upstairs in the courtrooms. The transmission said, “Tell Bruce we need to talk to him.” Uh-oh. “Talk to,” is cop-speak for…

Continuing The Motion To Continue

If Mendo’s newest judge wasn’t so thrilled with the implications of the Wuerfel case, it would have been resolved by now. The new judge is the recently seated Honorable Ann Moorman, who, according to someone…

Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object

Two valid criticisms regarding last week’s report on the Cruz bust: One from the Cruz camp, the other from the Sheriff. The Cruzes said they didn’t have 51 pounds of meth, and the Sheriff remarked…

Cruzin’ For A Bust

  It has taken more than a year just to get to the preliminary hearing in the Juda and Hugo Cruz case. Juda is the father, Hugo is the son. They are co-defendants. The Cruzes…

One Last Hug

After he's done maybe ten years in the state pen for voluntary manslaughter, the otherwise law-abiding Samuel Campos will be deported to Mexico. Campos might have happily lived out his days here in Gringolandia if…

The People vs. Mark Wuerful, Esq

This one goes back deep into former DA Meredith Lintott's raggedy regime, an age-dated pot case that began with a big bang of a bust in July of 2007 and has been supplemented by busts…

The Guns & Gardens Of Bell Springs

The cops catch a Bell Springs guy with two-dozen assault weapons and a half dozen marijuana gardens and they think they've got a case. The DA thinks so too, and it all limps into court…

Chef Frandsen’s Choppa-Choppa

District Attorney David Eyster handled Chef Frandsen’s plea bargain. It's a bad sign for the defendant when a District Attorney himself wants to put you away. Chef. That's his name, the guy the DA himself…

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