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June 22, 2023
San Mateo County supervisors approved a five year contract with the San Mateo County Bar Association worth $125 million for its Private Defender Program, adding conditions that county and association
May 16, 2023
Joran van der Sloot is currently facing a 28-year prison sentence but was handed additional time because of a drug smuggling scandal in prison
April 12, 2023
A transient has been arrested and charged for allegedly vandalizing statues of the Biblical figures of Mary and Joseph in Menlo Park on the night before Easter last weekend, San Mateo County prosecutors said Tuesday.
April 11, 2023
A 39-year-old transient has been arrested and charged for allegedly vandalizing statues of the Biblical figures of Mary and Joseph in Menlo Park on the night before Easter last weekend, San Mateo County prosecutors said Tuesday.
January 9, 2023
Los Angeles County has moved a program providing attorneys to poor criminal defendants from the L.A. County Bar Assn. to the overworked office of the public defender.
January 2, 2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced the appointment of 15 superior court judges across the state, with five for counties in the Bay Area including Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
December 21, 2022
Virgil Delano Presnell Jr., 68, was sentenced to death for the murder of an 8-year-old and rape of her 10-year-old friend after abducting them in May 1976 as they walked home from school in Cobb County.
December 21, 2022
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Supreme Court says that a state pledge to not execute some inmates until certain conditions are met following the COVID-19 pandemic is a binding contract that the state can't ignore.