Newsom s AG pick will test California s mood on criminal justice
OAKLAND Becoming California s top cop may have been the easy part. Keeping the job is another story.
Rob Bonta was Gov. Gavin Newsom s choice for state attorney general after eight years as a liberal Democratic state lawmaker. He was celebrated in March by police reformers and Asian American organizations as a groundbreaking pick at a time of social upheaval.
But Bonta has routinely been at odds with law enforcement, who remain powerful in California and could very well back a credible challenger. Whether Bonta survives next year in his first statewide election will be the ultimate test of whether this once tough-on-crime state has truly changed.
Golden State Killer DA seeks to unseat California Attorney General
By Don Thompson article Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert talks with the media after a press conference about the Golden State Killer in Santa Ana, CA, on Tuesday, August 21, 2018. The district attorneys told the media that Joseph DeAngelo will be tried in S
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SACRAMENTO - The prosecutor best known for pushing to unmask the mysterious Golden State Killer said Monday that she is running for state attorney general as advocate for victims and to right a criminal justice system she said is in chaos, days after California’s current top law enforcement officer was sworn in.
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THE BUZZ Assemblymember Rob Bonta could bask in his attorney general confirmation for about an hour before the campaign to keep his seat beckoned.
The Legislature overwhelmingly voted Thursday to make Bonta California’s paramount prosecutor
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Man accused of killing mother in Sacramento was arrested weeks before in an S.F. robbery but D.A. Chesa Boudin did not charge him
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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said the robbery “was not provable or chargeable.”Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
A man accused of shooting and killing his mother in Sacramento was arrested and booked in a strong-arm robbery case weeks earlier in San Francisco, but the district attorney did not charge him.
Records show that instead of charging Ali Mustafa Hudson, 42, for allegedly stealing a phone from a passenger on a Muni bus on Dec. 20, District Attorney Chesa Boudin had him transported to Solano County, where Hudson had a $5,000 misdemeanor warrant for drug possession and driving without a valid driver’s license.