Progressive prosecutor and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon campaigned on a promise to dramatically reform the criminal justice system. He has stood by the
NO. TWO LETTERS. ONE SYLLABLE. SEEMS LIKE A RELATIVELY SIMPLE WORD TO SAY. And yet, as any police officer will tell you, people have a tremendously hard time saying
The elections of George Gascon and Chesa Boudin as the district attorneys of Los Angeles and San Francisco were historic events. Both men campaigned on progressive
The confirmation hearing for Kentaji Brown Jackson, the first African-American woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court, begins today. Judge Jackson is also the first
Since the start of the pandemic in March of 2020, hot meals have been suspended in Orange County jails. The initial decision was based on a lack of inmate work crews
It seems as if the Orange County District Attorney’s office has been mired in scandal for most of my career as a lawyer at this point. After a decades-long cover-up
As we usher in 2022, we are once again simultaneously ushering in a broad slate of new laws in California that will bring significant change and reform to the criminal
As discussed here previously, Senate Bill 1437 dramatically amended the law governing murder prosecutions in California. The goal of the law was to significantly limit
On December 1st, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson, a case in which a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks is being
Access to justice is an enormous issue in our country. While we pride ourselves on being a “nation of laws,” the fact of the matter is that many people are unable
