SF News Derick Almena's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Explains Juror Removals In Ghost Ship Trial Deliberations The always talkative and colorful Tony Serra, who served as lead defense attorney for Ghost Ship fire defendant Derick Almena, spoke to reporters outside the Alameda County courthouse Thursday and explained why several jurors were removed from deliberations by the judge two and a half weeks ago.
SF News Jury Selection Complete, Opening Statements To Begin In Ghost Ship Trial A jury of nine women and three men was finalized Monday in the trial of accused Ghost Ship fire suspects Derick Almena and Max Harris, and opening statements from the prosecution and defense are set to take place Tuesday and Wednesday.
SF News Ghost Ship Proprietor Featured In SF Prison Art Show The Prison Art Show is an annual function at the Pier 5 Law Offices featuring artwork from incarcerated men and women all over the country. But the 2017 Prison Art Show has a
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship Proprietor Now Arguing That Fire Started Next Door The trial-by-media for Ghost Ship proprietor Derick Almena predictably continues, now seven weeks since the deadly blaze tore through the live-work warehouse he designed and managed and took the lives of 36 people.
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship's Derick Almena: 'He Should Not Be Made A Scapegoat' The legal team that will be representing Derick Ion Almena, the founder of Oakland's Ghost Ship collective and the man many say is responsible for the unsafe construction, wiring, and lack of proper
SF News Shrimp Boy's Attorneys Are Done, File Motion To Quit His Appeal Case Remember how powerhouse, old-school defense attorney Tony Serra spent half of last year painting Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow as a reformed gangster with no desire but to do good in the community and
SF News Shrimp Boy Described As 'Buddha-Like' As His Attorneys Vow To Appeal Verdict Following the guilty verdict two Fridays ago in the federal case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, former SF Appeal and SF Mag reporter Max Cherney sat down for a new jailhouse interview with
SF News Shrimp Boy Guilty On 162 Criminal Counts, Including Racketeering And Murder The verdict came in this morning in the case of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, after a nine-week trial that captured local headlines for months prior to its start, and the jury has found
SF News Shrimp Boy Defense Attorney Tony Serra Calls Feds 'Sick People' In Closing Arguments The fate of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, the alleged leader of the Ghee Kung Tong crime syndicate in SF's Chinatown accused of racketeering, murder, and many other things, now rests in the hands
SF News As Witness Testimony Wraps, Shrimp Boy's Lawyers Allege Judicial Misconduct The final defense witnesses are expected today in the trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow, in which he's charged with racketeering, money laundering, murder, and dozens of other offenses related to the organized
SF News Shrimp Boy Takes The Stand, Speaks Publicly For The First Time Since 2014 Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow took the witness stand Monday in his racketeering trial that has also turned into an ersatz murder trial, serving as the first witness in his defense after five weeks
SF News Shrimp Boy Update: Attorney Serra Tries To Discredit Federal Agent The latest from the trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow was yesterday's cross-examination of prosecution witness "David Jordan," an undercover federal agent whose real name we do not know but who appears to
SF News Shrimp Boy's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Wants To Get Mayor Lee On Witness Stand What's sure to be the colorful trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow kicked off Monday with opening arguments, and already there is talk of mafia-style hits and steak dinners with an FBI agent
SF News New York Times Mag Discovers Shrimp Boy, Adores His Anti-Government Attorney Tony Serra The New York Times Magazine this week delves deep into a profile of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow which is also, in turn, a profile of his flamboyant, anti-government defense attorney J. Tony Serra
SF News Shrimp Boy Gets A Flamboyant New Legal Team In the latest twist involving disgraced state senator Leland Yee and his alleged gangster accomplice Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, the peaceful Facebook user and admitted criminal has brought in a new legal team—
SF News Araujo Retrial Under Way As we predicted in our earlier post, the defense is indeed switching strategies in the retrial. When we spoke with Bill DuBois, defendant Jose Merel's new attorney, back in January, he hinted that
