OAKLAND — In what is starting to become a recurring theme here, prosecutors have thrown out a 2013 murder case that hinged on the identification of an eyewitness whose interview was done by an Oakland police detective now facing perjury charges. Leonard Jones, 41, was facing a murder charge in the April 2013 shooting death … Read more
James Ybarra, who was arrested on drug charges in 2014, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the city of Houston and the former police officer who arrested him after a Texas court found he had been wrongfully convicted. According to the lawsuit, which HuffPost has obtained and viewed, it says that in August 2014, … Read more
CONTRA COSTA — One of the East Contra Costa police officers indicted by the FBI last year has run afoul of the law again, after cops allegedly found him passed out drunk behind the wheel of a running car — and then he threatened to hurt them. It isn’t his alcohol-involved crime, multiple law enforcement … Read more