The California Senate approved SB 620 on a vote of 22-14 to allow a court to use judicial discretion when applying a sentence enhancement for using or discharging a firearm.
To hear Los Angeles native Keldren Joshua tell it, in 2017, he received a second chance at life. Until then, he had spent the last 10 years at the Terminal Island prison in San Pedro, California, after pleading guilty to conspiracy of distributing 500 grams of methamphetamine. His total sentence was 15 years to life.
State prison inmates will soon have the right to request and obtain contraceptives
A leader of the group that organized the protest where a sniper killed five law enforcement officers in Dallas was sentenced Friday to prison for unrelated probation violations.
BALTIMORE (AP) A judge has acquitted a Baltimore police officer in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken in police custody and whose case fueled outrage among activists of the Black Lives Matter movement. Here are the outcomes of some other cases where police have been investigated for the deaths of black Americans with whom they came in contact. MICHAEL BROWN The 18-year-old black man was shot and killed in August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. A grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson, the white officer who shot him.
California proposed on Friday November 6, to allow corrections officials to choose one of four types of barbiturates to execute prisoners on death row depending on what’s available, as states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs. The single drug would replace the series of three drugs that were last used when Clarence Ray Allen was executed in 2006, strapped to a gurney in what once was the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison. Eight states already have used a single anesthetic drug for executions, and five others have announced plans to switch to the method, according to
In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, Kenneth Evans holds a composite of photographs of his son Tuan Evans, as he poses for a photograph at his home in Temple Hills, Md. Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners, according to an Associated Press review of court records. Tuan Evans is scheduled for early release from prison, the result of new sentencing guideline ranges that trim punishment lengths for convicted drug criminals. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) A push to overhaul
More than 45,000 African migrants and asylum seekers are in Israel, according to the Israeli Interior Ministry, most from the strife-ridden countries of Eritrea and Sudan.
Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. returned to his family’s Washington, D.C., home on June 22 after leaving a halfway house where he lived for several months since serving 2½ years in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal items.
A judge refused last week to lower the $1 million bail for a man who allegedly set fire to a large apartment complex under construction in downtown Los Angeles — a conflagration that also melted freeway signs and damaged nearby buildings. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Upinder S. Kalra refused the defense’s request to reduce bail to $575,000 for Dawud Abdulwali, 56, who is charged with one felony count each of arson of a structure and aggravated arson. “I see no change of circumstances,” the judge said, noting that he agreed with Superior Court Judge Sergio C. Tapia II’s May