Month: April 2020

Civil rights advocates in California and around the country are likely to be disappointed by a recent Supreme Court Ruling. In an 8-1 decision, the justices ruled that a police officer in Kansas acted within boundaries laid down by the U.S. Constitution when he pulled...

There is a lot of discussion about the reliability of eyewitness identification. It still remains one of the most compelling forms of testimony in jury trials in California.  However, research suggests that memory is not infallible, and it often morphs over time as it...

A 64-year-old California woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling $709,084 from a high school in Orange County. After entering the guilty plea, she was sentenced to 14 years in state prison for 222 counts of felony embezzlement and misappropriation of money by a public...