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News Editors/City Desks
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2001
The California Public Defenders Association will present its annual "Defe...
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The county's Public Defender's Office was honored recently with the 2003 Program of the Year Award by the California Public Defenders Association.
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David McKenna, the challenger to James F. Penman in the city attorney's race, has acknowledged not having voted for the last five years he lived in Riverside County.
McKenna, a former San Bernardino County supervisor and public defender who moved to San Bernardino in June, said he spent a lot of time visiting family in San Diego and Virginia and didn't have enough knowledge about local candidates to vote.
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A schoolteacher from Winnetka, charged with murdering his wife aboard a Mexican cruise ship, on Thursday waived his right to seek bail.
During a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Diego, a federal public defender entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Robert McGill. He is charged with "murder on the high seas" in the July 14 slaying of his wife, Shirley, on the last leg of a five-night Carnival Elation cruise to Cabo San Lucas.
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FOR PUBLICATION. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE NI...Hughes, Federal Public Defender, San Diego, California, Attorney for the defendant...
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INSIDE: Gifford prognosis 3A Life of alienation 3A Editorial 4A
TUCSON, Ariz. - Authorities on Sunday charged a 22-year-old man with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing others at a political event, revealing that he had scrawled on an envelope the words "my assassination" and "Giffords.
...The federal public defender's office in Arizona is seeking an outside... that might arise and is asking that San Diego attorney Judy Clarke be appointed to represent Lou...
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FOR PUBLICATION. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE ... COUNSEL Matthew Braner, Deputy Public Defender, San Diego, California, for the petitioner-appella...
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TUCSON, Ariz. - Authorities on Sunday charged a 22-year-old man described as a pot-smoking loner with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing others at a political event, revealing that he had scrawled on an envelope the words "my assassination" and "Giffords.
The discoveries at his home in southern Arizona, however, provided few answers to a shocked nation, from the victims of Saturday's shooting rampage to lawmakers worried about their safety: What motivated the rampage outside a supermarket that killed six and injured 14?
...The federal public defender's office in Arizona is seeking an outside... that might arise and plans to ask that San Diego attorney Judy Clarke be appointed to represent Lou...
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FOR PUBLICATION. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE ..., Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, California, for the plaintiff-appellee. . James FFife, Assistant Federal Public Defender, San Diego, California, for the defendant-appellan...
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Last month's ouster of former Maryland Public Defender Nancy S. Forster is likely to be the subject of state legislative hearings sometime this fall, according to the chairman of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.
State Sen. Brian E. Frosh said he has been considering Baltimore- branch NAACP President Marvin "Doc" Cheatham's request for hearings and that various aspects of Forster's Aug. 21 firing "give me pause.
... deputy alternate public defender for San Diego County, said other members of his organization's b...