Criminal Law

Young Thug RICO Indictment Faces Possible Mistrial Following Judge’s Recusal Motions Seeking Recusal of Judge Granville Granted by Fulton County Judge Krause More than two years into a sweeping RICO indictment that accuses rapper Young Thug and five others of running a criminal street enterprise, the fate of the case that involves hundreds of witnesses […] More

Texas Man Scheduled to be Executed Despite Claims of Innocence and Push for DNA Testing Background Ruben Gutierrez, a 47-year-old man from Texas, has been on death row for the past 23 years. He was convicted in the fatal stabbing of Escolastica Harrison, an 85-year-old woman, at her home in Brownsville, Texas in 1998. His […] More

Texas man facing execution for 1998 killing of elderly woman for her money Ruben Gutierrez is scheduled to be executed in Texas for the murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in 1998. The victim was a mobile home park manager and retired teacher who was killed in her Brownsville home in an attempted robbery. Prosecutors said […] More

How Racism and Prosecutorial Misconduct Put Innocent Men on Death Row in Alameda County Background In 1995, Ernest Dykes was sentenced to death for the killing of a 9-year-old boy in Oakland, California. More than two decades later, his death sentence has been overturned, and he is set to be released next year. Today, Dykes […] More

Texas Man Scheduled to Be Executed Despite Longstanding Requests for DNA Testing The Crime Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas man, was sentenced to the death penalty in 1998 for the killing of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison. Harrison was a retired teacher and manager of a mobile home park in Brownsville, Texas. Prosecutors contended that Gutierrez killed Harrison […] More

Louisiana Man Pleads Not Guilty in Loranger Murder Case On Monday, Daniel Callihan, a man indicted federally and in two states in connection with the murder of a Loranger mother and her child, pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and second-degree kidnapping. Callihan was in court in Tangipahoa Parish for an […] More

The Young Slime Life RICO Gang Case: Challenges that the Fulton County Superior Judge will face Introduction The Young Slime Life RICO gang case has become the longest trial in the history of the state, and many lawyers and former judges claim that it has entered uncharted waters. The recusal of Chief Judge Ural Glanville […] More

Clearlake Woman Charged with First-Degree Murder for Fatal Shooting On July 10, 2023, Dominique Irene Molina-Dominguez was taken into custody by authorities for fatally shooting 38-year-old DeAndre Grinner at her home on 16th Street in Clearlake, California. Molina-Dominguez had been lying in wait for Grinner, for whom the authorities believe she may have had a […] More

Opinion: Resentencing of Death Row Inmates in California Overview Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price has filed motions requesting resentencing hearings for three men on death row in California. This move comes after an ongoing review of death penalty cases, where the District Attorney’s office was accused of unlawfully excluding Black and Jewish jurors from […] More

The Dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s Criminal Charges and the Role of Prosecutors Last week’s dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges related to the tragic “Rust” movie shooting has raised concerns around the nuances of case-building and the role of prosecutors. Several legal experts have pointed out that the case is a “glaring example” of the […] More

Riverside County Death Penalty Murder Trial Begins Riverside County jurors have begun hearing testimony in a death penalty murder case that spans over two decades. Terry Cheek, aged 32, was allegedly strangled to death in April 1998, while leaving her home in Jurupa Valley for the night shift at work in San Juan Capistrano. Her […] More