SF Politics Minor Figure in Sheng Thao FBI Raid Claims DA Pamela Price Tried to Shake Him Down for $25,000 Bribe Two of the East Bay’s strangest political stories just collided head-on, as a very colorful character from the FBI probe that led to the Sheng Thao raid now says that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. But oh, this fellow has credibility issues.
SF Politics Report: Alameda DA Pamela Price Had 1,000 Misdemeanor Cases Dismissed Because Her Office Simply Blew Filing Deadlines A possible October Surprise in next month’s recall election of Alameda County DA Pamela Price comes in a new report that claims that more than 1,000 misdemeanor offenders walked free because Price’s office missed deadlines to file charges.
SF News Police Unions in Alameda County Unite, Call For Pamela Price's Recall At a press conference in Emeryville, held earlier this weekend, the police unions announced in a joint statement that they are all in favor of having Price recalled, sharply rebuking her for being extremely soft on punishing repeat offenders.
SF News Lawyers For Alameda Cops Accused In Mario Gonzalez's Death Seek Dismissal Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price acted in haste and missed a procedural deadline when she refiled charges in April against three City of Alameda police officers, their lawyers say.
SF News Judge Overturns 33-Year-Old Conviction of Death Row Inmate, Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Decide His Fate A man convicted in 1991 in a murder-for-hire plot may walk free soon, after a federal judge overturned the conviction due to racially-motivated prosecutorial misconduct.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Abruptly Revokes That State Assistance He Offered to Alameda County DA Pamela Price In a very public rebuke of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly yanked the extra state attorneys he’d offered to Price, saying, “Your office has yet to make use of these resources.”
SF News DA Pamela Price Reassures Public That Men Who Allegedly Shot Five-Year-Old Will Be Held Accountable Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price seemed to be trying to quash rumors when she insisted in a new statement that three alleged gang members accused in an April 2023 freeway shooting that left a five-year-old girl dead will indeed be prosecuted.
SF News Three Take Plea Deals In 2021 Kidnap and Murder Case In Alameda County Three men are getting relatively lenient sentences in a case involving a home-invasion robbery, and a victim who was bound, gagged, taunted, and strangled before being dumped by the side of a road.
SF Politics Pamela Price Recall Election Date Set, and It Won’t Be Until November 5 The effort to recall Alameda County DA Pamela Price now has an election date set, but recall supporters are not happy that it won’t be for another six months, and instead of a one-off special election it will be November 5.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 'Recall Pamela Price' Crowd Pushes For Fast Special Election The proponents of recalling Alameda Co. DA Pamela Price want to hold the recall election in a few months; a man was arrested after allegedly assaulting a member of the San Jose mayor's security staff; and a South Bay caregiver was arrested for stealing from an elderly couple in Los Altos Hills.
SF News Alameda County DA Charges Three Officers Over 2021 In-Custody Death Where Previous DA Had Declined to Charge A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
SF Politics DA Pamela Price Accused of Retaliating Against Employees Who Supported Her Opponents While the recall campaign against her just hit a signature snag, Alameda County DA Pamela Price is also getting some bad publicity today over some wrongful termination claims from former employees.
SF Politics The ‘Recall Pamela Price’ Crowd Has Submitted Their Signatures for Recall Attempt Against Alameda County DA The political group trying to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price submitted what they say are 123,000 signatures to get their measure on the ballot, though 73,000 of them have to be proven to be valid.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Sending In Wave of State Attorneys to Prosecute Crime in Alameda County Gavin Newsom’s Oakland and East Bay anti-crime crusade continues, now with Newsom announcing he’s sending a bunch of state Department of Justice attorneys to prosecute crime in Alameda County, which may be a message to DA Pamela Price.
SF News Alameda County DA Pursuing Murder Charges Against Men Accused of Killing Retired Officer Kevin Nishita It’s probably not going to win Alameda County DA Pamela Price any converts in the recall campaign against her, but she’s throwing the book at the men charged with killing a retired officer who was shot while providing security for a KRON4 cameraman.
SF Politics More Alameda County DA Drama: Judge Orders Former Prosecutor Booked on Misdemeanor Charges A former Alameda County DA’s Office prosecutor — who now just so happens to work for SF DA Brooke Jenkins — has been ordered to be booked on misdemeanor charges that he improperly leaked confidential information to a defendant.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Host Anti-Recall Campaign Party Thursday Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and her supporters will be having a campaign launch party Thursday evening in Oakland as they try to fend off an attempt to get Price removed from office.
SF Politics The Recall Pamela Price Campaign Kicks Off Its Signature-Gathering Effort Here we go again with another district attorney recall campaign, as paid signature gatherers made their first big official push Sunday to collect the 73,000 signatures they need to force a recall election on Alameda County DA Pamela Price.
SF News Now Alameda County DA Pamela Price Is Taking Heat for Hiring Her Boyfriend Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is facing new scrutiny over hiring her romantic partner to a position that was apparently never advertised, and which pays a reported salary of more than $115,000.
SF News Recall Effort of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price Kicks Off A movement to recall Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price took a step forward as a group called "Save Alameda for Everyone (SAFE)" filed official paperwork this week to recall Price, who has faced escalating criticism for her approach to criminal justice.
SF News Oakland Residents Fume Over Crime at Community Meeting With DA, Oakland Police As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
SF News Accused Shooter In Three Oakland Murders Sentenced to 12 Years In High-Profile Test of DA's Policies A highly controversial case that has been the source of considerable courtroom drama in Alameda County in recent months has ended with a sentence that is unlikely to feel like justice for the families of three murder victims.
SF News Alameda County DA Removes Some (But Not All) Enhancement Charges In Freeway Shooting of Toddler The two men standing trial for the freeway shooting of two-year-old Jasper Wu are still getting gun and gang enhancements on their murder charges, but Alameda County DA Pamela Price has removed some of their special enhancement charges, which may leave them with lighter sentences.
SF News Two of Three Murder Charges Dropped In Already Controversial Oakland Triple-Murder Case The triple-murder trial of Delonzo Logwood was already a hornet’s nest after a judge threw out a plea deal and Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to remove him from the case, and now that same judge has agreed to dismiss two of the three murder charges against Logwood.
SF News Alameda County DA’s New Accountability Unit Files Criminal Charges Against Three Law Enforcement Officers The separate charges range from falsifying records in relation with a suicide at Santa Rita Jail to oral copulation with a minor.