The State Attorney General's office said previously that the office took over reviewing the case because of the “potential ...

Charles Smiley, a 12-year judge of the Alameda County Superior Court, will serve as a justice on the First District Court of ...

A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy broke the law when he poured scalding water on the arm of a mentally ill defendant to get him to pull his hands back into his cell, a prosecutor argued Thursday ...