Neither the Drug Enforcement Administration nor the Immigration and Customs Enforcement have filed any state level referrals ...

Oregon spends four times the national average on indigent defense yet thousands of cases have not been prosecuted because the ...

Lee Kindlon was sworn in on Dec. 30, 2024, as Albany County’s first district attorney in 20 years. (Courtesy: Albany County District Attorney’s office) His mission is to train an elite team of ...

State Attorney General investigations can drag on for years, while local prosecutors bring closure and justice within months, ...

Ursula Jones Dickson, a superior court judge, has been chosen as Alameda County’s new District Attorney, 3 months after ...

A former deputy district attorney, Jones Dickson fills the vacancy created when Alameda County voters recalled Pamela Price ...

A request from the District Attorney’s office to replace a part-time victim/witness coordinator with a full-time position was tabled “until further notice,” according to Commissioner Scott Metzger, ...

The former Alameda County prosecutor — and current judge — is expected to serve through 2026, when the seat again goes up for ...

Judge Ursula Jones Dickson has experience working for Alameda County’s former district attorney — informing how she’ll lead ...

The current law's loophole inadvertently incentivizes delaying discovery challenges to have cases easily thrown out on ...

Over the last four years, 489 murder cases were dismissed. Almost a third of those dismissals were due to insufficient ...