Monthly Archive: January 2021
by Kent Scheidegger · Jan 5, 2021 10:21 am
Dan Walters, a veteran commentator on California politics, has this column with the above title at CalMatters on the California Supreme Court decision last week in In re Gadlin. See also my post on the decision last week. Walters writes:
A political saga that began more than four decades ago came full circle last week when the state Supreme Court, including four Jerry Brown appointees, indirectly upbraided the former governor.
Unanimously, the court declared that Proposition 57, a major criminal justice overhaul sponsored by Brown and overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2016, did what its critics said it would do, not what Brown told voters.
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by Michael Rushford · Jan 4, 2021 1:17 pm
A habitual criminal released from prison last April has been charged with a New Year’s Eve hit-and-run which killed two pedestrians in San Francisco. Katy Grimes of the California Globe reports that after Troy Ramon McAlister was released on parole after serving time for armed robbery, San Francisco police arrested him several times, most recently on December 20, but DA Chesa Boudin never charged him with any crimes. McAlister was driving a stolen car while intoxicated when he ran down 27-year-old Japanese-born Hanako Abe and 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt. Boudin, a former public defender, blames state parole office for not adequately supervising the criminal.
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by Michael Rushford · Jan 4, 2021 12:09 pm
California’s First District Court of Appeal has granted a gang murder suspect access to the names of zip codes of prospective jurors in his trial. Gary Klien of the Mercury News reports that attorneys representing Edenilson Misael Alfaro, an MS-13 gang member, won the unanimous appellate court ruling so that they can explore the under-representation of Latinos in the Marin County jury pool list. The December 9 opinion by Judge Mark Simons brushed aside concerns about juror privacy noting, “We find no basis to conclude that privacy rights preclude disclosure of the names and zip codes on those lists.”
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