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.
SF News Two Will Face Murder Charges In Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu, Third Suspect Cleared of Homicide Charge On Wednesday, a judge ruled that two of them will stand trial for murder, but the third was exonerated due to self-defense.
SF News Another Family Upset With Alamada DA Over Possible Plea Deal In Killing of Two Brothers The family of slain brothers Suiti and Manase Mesui, both shot and killed in September 2021, are complaining to the press that the brothers’ shooter may be able to plead down to voluntary manslaughter charges instead of murder.
SF News Arrest Warrant Issued for Oakland Police Officer On Suspicion of Perjury, Bribery It’s likely to cause more tension between the Oakland Police Department and Alameda County DA Pamela Price that Price has issued an arrest warrant for OPD officer Phong Tran on five felony counts of perjury and bribery.
SF News Preliminary Hearings Begin In Trial of Fatal Freeway Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu In a case that had already become quite controversial before the trial has even started, preliminary hearings started Monday morning for the suspected freeway gang shooting that took the life of two-year-old Jasper Wu.
SF News DA Price: Three Gang Members Shot Up Wrong Vehicle When Five-Year-Old Was Killed Sounding tougher on crime this week after the dustup involving the Jasper Wu case, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price gave a press conference with the CHP and Fremont police on Tuesday about the killing of five-year-old Eliyanah Crisostomo.
SF News Outside Judge to Rule on Whether Alameda County DA Can Disqualify Judge Who Tossed Plea Deal A judge from outside Alameda County will now step in to decide whether a judge should continue to try a murder case in which he rejected a plea deal that the defense and prosecution had agreed to, because it was too lenient.
SF News Alameda County DA Says She’s ‘Reviewing’ Murder Charges In Toddler Shooting, Received ‘Racist Messages’ Since We’re seeing another major flare-up for a reform-minded district attorney, as Alameda County DA Pamela Price says she’s “reviewing” murder charges in the shooting of toddler Jasper Wu, but also says the “racist messages" she’s received are “unprecedented.”
SF News In Blow to New Alameda Co. DA, Judge Tosses Plea Deal In Murder Case Newly elected Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appeared in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing in a plea deal that marked one of the first significant moves of her tenure. And the news was not good.
SF News Attorneys File $66 Million Civil Suit In Oakland Police Scandal; DA Formally Charges Two Attorneys for Jasmine Abuslin a.k.a. Celeste Guap filed the first of what may be several lawsuits Friday in Oakland, a $66 million civil damages claim. As KQED reports, this is likely
