SF News 9th Circuit Reverses CA Judge Who Ruled Delays In Death Penalty 'Cruel And Unusual' A panel of three judges appointed to the bench of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals by Democrats has reversed a July 2014 decision by a US District Judge that ruled the
SF News San Diego Clerk Withdraws His Prop 8 Appeal One of two lawsuits pending for review by the California Supreme Court that are attempting to reinstate Prop 8 is being withdrawn. The suit, filed last month by San Diego County Clerk Ernest
SF News Obama Nominates San Francisco Lawyer To 9th Circuit San Francisco lawyer Michelle Friedland is one of three people whom President Obama just nominated to fill vacancies on the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals. Friedland is a Berkeley native and
SF News Gascon Already Accused Of Conflict Of Interest Just ten days after former Police Chief George Gascon was sworn in as the interim District Attorney, a lawyer at the Public Defenders Office is considering asking him to step aside from the
SF News CA Supreme Court Allows Cell Phone Searches Without Warrant The California Supreme Court made a controversial 5-2 ruling yesterday allowing police to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant. This finding is said to be in line with decisions made in the
SF News Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wants to Outlast Scalia Speaking of the Supreme Court (where the Prop 8 case is likely to end up), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today puts to rest any rumors that she has any retirement plans during Obama's
SF News Judge Rules Against Tobacco Ban at Walgreen's You damn well ought to be able to buy your smokes at Walgreen's if you can buy them at Safeway, says Justice William McGuiness of the First Appelate District Court. The court ruled
SF News Murderer Convicted Despite Witnesses Saying They Were Completely Eff'd Up That Night Anyone who thinks SF isn't tough enough on violent crime, listen up: Silas Byers, 44, was convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday in San Francisco court for the June 2009 slaying of Douglas
SF News Murderer *Probably* Won't Walk Due to That Whole Crime Lab Scandal Remember the story of Dopey Debbie the Coke Whore whose shenanigans may have cost the SFPD like a hundred drug convictions? Well, prosecutors in the case of Dennis Cyrus a former member of
SF News SF Appeals Court Rules "Under God" Non-Religious by Amy Crocker The San Francisco Appeals court has ruled that "Under God" is not a prayer when used in the Pledge of Allegiance. In 2002, the court declared that the phrase was
SF News 6 Richmond Gang Rape Suspects Arraigned; 2 Witnesses Speak ABC 7 News spoke to one anonymous witness who says he watched, for twenty minutes, the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at a homecoming dance two weeks ago -- he says he
SF News <i>SF Weekly</i> Gets All 'To Catch a Predator' on Airplanes Not sure if any of you caught this story in the Weekly this week, but just in case you didn't, and just in case you have kids, make sure to train them in
