SF News Alleged Ambulance Thief Pleads Not Guilty, Is Released From Jail The woman who allegedly led police on a wild chase after stealing an ambulance parked in front of a downtown San Francisco emergency is out of jail today, after a judge granted her
SF News State Supreme Court Says Gay Marriages Can Proceed The California State Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that same-sex marriages can continue despite an emergency request from Prop 8 supporters to stop them. "Backers of Proposition 8 had turned to the state's
SF News Toddler-Kicking Woman Too Volatile For Court Sabryna Bell, 24, the woman who stands accused of kicking a two-year-old in the torso in Golden Gate Park on Monday, didn't appear in court on Thursday. Why? Because she's mentally unwell. To
SF News Crass Murderer Asks Jurors To Flip Coin To Decide Fate When Nathan Burris isn't offending the family of the woman she murdered, he's asking jurors to flip a coin in order to decide his fate. Burris, if you recall, was convicted last week
SF News Bryan Stow Beating Suspects Plead Not Guilty Louie Sanchez, 28, and Marvin Norwood, 30, the two men accused of beating Giants fan Bryan Stow at the Dodgers opening game on March 30, pled not guilty to mayhem, assault, battery and
SF News Judge Rules Against Same-Sex Marriage Ban; Judge Walker's Ruling Valid Chief Judge Ware has ruled against anti-marriage ilk, throwing out the inane argument that Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling against Prop 8 was unconstitutional since he is a homosexual." Their complaints, if you recall,
SF News Scene from Courthouse Outside Barry Bonds Jury Selection If Barry "(*)" Bonds heads to jail for lying to a grand jury about steroid use, this guy will have nothing more to do with baseball. OK? (For those of you keeping up, Bonds
SF News Prop 8 Oral Arguments Will Be Televised The upcoming appeals court hearing on California’s same-sex marriage ban will be televised. "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal announced Wednesday that it had granted C-Span permission to carry the
SF News Bonds Steroid Test Results Won't Be Used In Court Former SF Giants great Barry Bonds scored a coup today in his perjury case. SFGate reports that prosecutors cannot use Bonds' positive steroids test results in court. "because Bonds' trainer refused to testify
SF News Oakland Salon Beating Case: Misdemeanor Charges?! Cavenia Bryant and Jamillya Edgerton, the two waste-of-space human beings who videotaped themselves brutally attacking an Oakland hair salon owner, then bragged about it on-air to radio station KMEL -- were in court
SF News Alleged USF Rapist in Court Today Ryan Caskey, the University of San Francisco ROTC cadet accused of raping at least four other USF students on campus, was scheduled to appear in court this morning. Caskey plead 'not guilty' to
SF News Civil Rights Groups Ask Ninth Circuit to Reconsider Denial of Asylum to Gay Guatemalan After allegedly being beaten, sexually assaulted, threatened by a Guatemalan congressman, and chronically harassed by Guatemalan police, gay Bay Area resident Saul Martinez fled to the United States in 1992. Now, after years
SF News The Divorce Debate of Prop 8 While lawyers and civil rights advocates agree that Prop 8 will (most likely) be upheld when the State Supreme Court makes its decision, no one can say for sure if forced divorces will
SF News Utah Ilk & LDS Church Spent More on Prop. 8 than Previously Known Briefly touched upon last week when the final batch of Prop 8 donor names unfurled, Utah citizens and the LDS Church spent more on getting Prop. 8 passed than previously known. According to
SF News Johannes Mehserle Released fom Jail Johannes Mehserle, the BART officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant on New Year's Day, was released from jail late this afternoon on bond. He had been at the Santa Rita Jail in
SF News Bart Officer Back in Court Former Bart officer Johannes Mehserle was back in court today in order to ask a judge for bail. If you recall, the 27-year-old disgraced cop pleaded not guilty to the murder of Oscar
SF News Judge Removes 5 Counts Against Bonds Noted steroid aficionado, alleged perjurer, and keen deer hunter Barry Bonds scored a win today when a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed five of his 15 counts. Accused of fibbing when he
SF News Rude Attitude Gets SF Judge Reprimanded Watch your manners in courtroom, people. Same goes for you, honorable judges. See, Superior Court Judge James McBride was publicly reprimanded for his courtroom behavior on Tuesday. With cases going back to 2006,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Ready, Set, Go Al last! Battered and bruised but still standing former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew will have his day in court. But, like, for reals this time. On November 10, Jew will head to
SF News When Geragos Attack--Dhaliwals Claim SF Was Negligent Looking to get a few well-earned bucks out of the city for the Christmas Day tiger attack that claimed the life of their (alleged) friend Carlos Sousa Jr., Amritpal and Kulbir Dhaliwal have
SF News Tim Redmond Responds to SF Bay Guardian's Lawsuit Victory After a local jury found SF Weekly guilty of illegal predatory pricing and awarded the local alt weekly a cool $6.39 million (the verdict subject to "treble damages," which bring the total
SF News SF Bay Guardian Wins Case Against SF Weekly With regard to the SFBG vs. SF Weekly (VVM) lawsuit -- you know, the one where the Guardian sued the Weekly and its parent company for predatory pricing practices? where the Guardian's Publisher,
SF News Workplace Stoners Can Be Fired, Says California Supreme Court Bad news cancer fighters, arthritic sufferers, and those of you who worked so hard at getting your medical marijuana ID card under false pretenses: employees who partake in the kind medical bud at
SF News Congrats, Now Your Lives Are Over, Too! Convictions In Iko's Murder. Two brothers and a friend (ages 16, 15, and 13) were convicted in juvenile court today of first-degree murder. While neither of the three rapscallions was the actual shooter, they were found guilty
misc Haight, Homeless, and Dogs...Continued! What would Animal Control do in that situation, where a homeless kid owner lets his dog bite someone? There are a few ways that this situation could work itself out, depending on the