Thankfully, reason has prevailed in the state of California and a bill backed by the California District Attorneys Association (SB779) and written by Senator Joel Anderson (R-Alpine; San Diego County) that would have shortened death penalty appeals and reinstated the gas chamber as a means of capital punishment. The bill was defeated at the Public […]
Many of us remember the natural gas explosion that killed 8 people and ravaged 38 homes in San Bruno in September of 2010. What many people may not know is that when a motorcyclist, 36-year-old Paul Lee, drove down to see the spectacle, he would be arrested on 3 felony counts: battery of an officer, […]
We all know that the justice system doesn’t always work the way that it should. The work of Project Innocence has proved this to be true – juries don’t always understand their instructions or the evidence before them. But in the case of Valentin Carbajal, a man accused of molesting both his stepdaughter and daughter, […]