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Article • July 15, 2008
California Sheriff's Investigatory Materials Exempt From Production Under Public Records Act by The City of Los Angeles (City) petitioned for review of an appellate order to produce investigative records to Elgin Haynie regarding a traffic stop by a sheriff's deputy. The production ruling was reversed and the records were ruled …
Article • July 15, 2008
US Parole Restrictions on Computer Access Reversed by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated portions of a district court’s order of supervised release that it found were unnecessary deprivations. Between December 2002 and mid-January 2003, Thomas Sales used his scanner and printer to make counterfeit $20 bills. Following …
Article • July 15, 2008
California: Medical Marijuana Law at Odds with Jail, Prison Policies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeals has held that because California’s 1996 voter-approved Medical Marijuana Program Act (Proposition 115) permits a citizen to possess marijuana for medical use, bringing medically-approved marijuana into a jail …
Article • July 15, 2008
Seven California Women Prisoners Settle Sexual Assault Suit for $160,000 by Seven women between 25 and 60 years old settled their sexual assault suit against California for $160,000. Plaintiffs were confined at the Avenal State Prison, near Fresno in 1989 and 1990. Avenal was a male prison and most of …
Article • July 15, 2008
Filed under: Police, False Arrest
$100,000 Settlement For Airline Employee's Retaliatory Arrest By California Sheriff's Deputy by Los Angeles International Airport (California) employee, James Jones, was arrested after stopping what appeared to be an unauthorized breech of security in 2003. An undercover deputy had allegedly shown Jones his identification. Jones filed a federal civil rights …
Brief • July 14, 2008
Lancaster v. Cate, CA, Order Granting Atty Fees, Death Row Conditions, 2008 Case 3:79-cv-01630-WHA Document 1555 Filed 07/14/2008 Page 1 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 11 For the Northern District of California …
ACLU Report - Mental Health Issues in Los Angeles County Jail 2008 r!n!lAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION of SOUTHERN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA of LIBERTY II JUSTICE II EQUALITY EQUALITY Chair 7,2008 July 7, 2008 Jarl Mohn Jarl Mohn President To: Douglas Mirell Mirell Chairs Emeriti Danny Goldberg Allan K. Allan K. …
Gautier v. Hickman, CA, Settlement, prisoner medical death, 2007 Case 2:07-cv-00390-GGH 1 2 3 Document 92 Filed 06/27/2008 Page 1 of 3 LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD SELTZER RICHARD A. SELTZER, SBN 92317 2 Theatre Square, Suite 234 Orinda, California 94563 Telephone: (925) 253-7909 Facsimile: (925) 254-0550 4 5 Attorneys for …
Brief • June 24, 2008
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Memo Def No Costs, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2008 1 John Burton, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, California 91101 3 Telephone: (626) 449-8300 4 Facsimile: (626) 449-4417 E-Mail: jb@johnburtonlaw.com 5 Peter …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
California Homosexual Prisoner Family Visits Policy Draws Fire by California’s newly adopted state prison policy permitting overnight conjugal visits for registered domestic partners who are in prison has been praised by homosexual advocacy groups but has drawn fire from religious conservatives. Prison conjugal visiting began in 1918 in Mississippi as …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
California Parole Board Executive Officer Resigns After Caught Drinking on Duty by The Executive Officer of California’s Board of Parole Hearings (Board), who was the passenger in a state car driven by another Board employee, resigned after police stopped the car and arrested the driver for DUI. John Monday, 56, …
California DOC Federal Master: Continued Court Oversight Needed on “Code of Silence” by Marvin Mentor John Hagar, the Special Master assigned by the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) to monitor the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) staff investigations and disciplinary process has opined, in an October 2007 Final …
33,000 California Prisoners May Need Credits Recalculated Due To Retroactive State Court Decisions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Three recent California court decisions interpreting California’s sentencing laws have spawned a need for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to recalculate the release dates of an estimated …
California State Prisoner Wins $39,011 for Deprivation of Outdoor Exercise During Extended Lockdowns by Marvin Mentor On November 8, 2007, a federal jury awarded a California state prisoner $39,011 for injuries he suffered due to being placed in retaliatory extended lockdowns that prison officials initiated following assaults on staff by …
California Prison Beset by Deadly Valley Fever Epidemic by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In the past three years more than 900 of the 5,300 prisoners at California’s Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) in Fresno County, plus 80 staff members, have contracted coccidioidomycosis, a fungus commonly known as “valley …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
$25.5 Million Awarded in California County Jail Strip Search Suit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The County of San Bernardino, California has agreed to settle a federal class action lawsuit filed against its Sheriff’s Department in 2005 for $25.5 million – one of the largest such payouts on …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Federal Jury Convicts California DOC Guards on Assault and Conspiracy Charges; Judge Tosses Verdict by Last September, a federal grand jury delivered an indictment against California prison guard Hector Flores on allegations that he helped cover-up an unjustified use of force on two prisoners at the California Institution for Men …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Innocent California Prisoner Freed After Nine Years; Paid $1 Million by An innocent man sentenced in 1995 to 27 years for raping and kidnapping a 13-year-old girl was freed by the California Innocence Project after serving 3,280 days in prison. In his subsequent suit for wrongful incarceration, he received $1 …
Brief • June 12, 2008
Filed under: Strip Searches, Strip Cells
K.C. v. Nedelkoff, TX, Motion for Classification; Re Tyc Challenge Solitary Confinement and Strip Searches, 2008 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS K.C., on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, et. aI, Civil No. Plaintiffs, Hon. v. Richard Nedelkoff, in his official …
Brief • June 6, 2008
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Verdict, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2008 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 323 Filed 06/06/2008 Page 1 of 14 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 323 Filed 06/06/2008 Page 2 of 14 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 323 Filed 06/06/2008 Page 3 of 14 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 323 Filed 06/06/2008 Page …
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