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Los Angeles Times: Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren’t
Civil rights organizations and defense attorneys last month asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in this state for being irredeemably racist. Around the same time, Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price announced that a federal judge had ordered her to review 35 cases her office had handled over the last three decades after she discovered evidence that prosecutors systematically excluded Black and Jewish people from juries hearing capital cases.
Dan Abrams Live: Mr. Flip It's Multiple Fraud Scheme
Todd Hill, one of the stars of the HGTV show "Flip It to Win It," has been found guilty... of committing real estate and financial fraud against 11 people!
San Jose Spotlight: Domestic violence cases overwhelm Silicon Valley prosecutors
Santa Clara County is experiencing a surge of domestic violence cases, spreading county prosecutors thin and holding up court hearings at a time when a looming budget deficit will cut District Attorney resources.
NBC Bay Area: Santa Clara DA on fighting fentanyl
The battle continues in big cities, and the suburbs, when it comes to fentanyl. On Wednesday, Santa Clara County district attorney said he’s charging two roommates for murder after an 18-month-old girl died of an overdose. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to DA Jeff Rosen about this case and the latest on the fentanyl crisis.
ABC 7: Ex-HGTV star and Los Gatos house flipper sentenced in real estate fraud case
A former HGTV star and house flipper from Los Gatos has been sentenced to four years in Santa Clara County Jail.
Mercury News: Los Gatos: ‘Mr. Flip It’ headed to the big house after grand theft conviction
The ex-star of HGTV’s “Flip It to Win It” show was sentenced Tuesday to four years in jail and ordered to pay $9.4 million for committing real estate and financial fraud against 11 victims, prosecutors said.
J-Weekly: Young adults facing antisemitism at work are getting new tools to fight back
Grappling with an unprecedented swell of antisemitism in the Bay Area, young Jewish professionals are mobilizing grassroots resources to fight newfound discrimination in the spaces that many Gen Z and millennial Jews inhabit most: at work and on social media.
New York Post: Girl, 3, tortured to death in ‘exorcism’ told mom ‘I love you’ — before body left on altar: docs
A 3-year-old girl was tortured to death during an “exorcism’’ that her family performed on her in a California church — where she futilely told her mother, “I love you’’ and her corpse was later left lying on the altar., authorities say.
KTVU Fox 2: Santa Clara County DA moves to take 15 convicted men off death row
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen on Friday made public his decision to begin changing the sentences of 15 men from death to life behind bars with no chance of parole.
Los Angeles Times: Prosecutors put men on death row. This California D.A. wants to take them off
In recent months, Santa Clara County Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen, once a prosecutor who believed in capital punishment and one who rejects association with the progressive prosecutor movement, has been quietly preparing to ask courts to change the penalties of 14 men from his county who are waiting for that ultimate sentence to be carried out.