On October 5, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill No. 1228, effective January 1, 2022, which amends the court's authority over a person arrested for violation of probation. The new law requires the court to consider releasing the person pending a revocation hearing in accordance with...

On October 5, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill No. 775, effective January 1, 2022, which amends Penal Code section 1170.95. The changes are significant. They are: Amendment to subdivision (a) expands eligibility to file a petition to vacate convictions to persons who were convict...

The feds arrested Michael Williams, 39,, a former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer on charges that he tried to smuggle methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for a total of $8,000 in cash.  In 2020, authorities conducted undercover operations inv...

After he pleaded guilty in October 2021 to one count of distributing methamphetamine, a federal judge sentenced Ahmed Binyamin Alasiri, 45, a.k.a. Kevin Lamar to 188 months in federal prison for selling the four pounds of methamphetamine while he was on supervised release after a 2009 terrorism c...

            After admitting that he sold 2.88 kilograms (about 6.3 pounds) of methamphetamine in 2019. a federal judge sentenced Efrain Chavez, 37, aka “Chino, to 260 months in federal prison for selling huge amounts of methamphetamine five different times. When the feds arrested him in November ...

    The feds charged Jose Manuel Perez, a.k.a. “Julio Rodriguez,” 30 with one count of conspiracy, nine counts of smuggling goods into the United States and two counts of wildlife trafficking for allegedly importing into the United States more than 1,700 reptiles – including 60 reptiles found hid...

            U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry, 61, who served in Congress since 2005 and represented Nebraska's 1st Congressional District, was found guilty by a federal jury  of concealing information and making false statements to federal authorities who were investigating illegal contributi...

William Sadleir, 67, the former chief executive of Aviron Pictures has agreed to plead guilty to bank fraud and money laundering. admitting that he applied for and received $1.7 million in loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for Aviron entities when the entire operation was being sh...

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of a death penalty habeas petition to determine if the prosecutor kicked a black prospective jurors on the basis of race. The Black juror served on a prior jury that acquitted the defendant in a sexual assault case. The ...