John Fencl News Today

California laws barring the sale of firearms and ammunition at fairgrounds and on other state property are constitutional, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez was reprimanded for judicial misconduct after he ordered the daughter of a criminal defendant handcuffed in court in what some witnesses described as a 'scared straight' tactic.

The woman told police the 50-year-old man told her to drive him to his workplace and forced her to stay there overnight Saturday, police said.

Federal courts in California to impose a ban on gun possession as a condition of PRETRIAL release. This condition violates the presumption of innocence.