Criminal Justice

Los Angeles Judge Escalante’s Kangaroo Court Sends No-Kill Shelter to Bankruptcy

DELTA Rescue high on a sunburnt hill in Acton, California, there’s a place where animals go not to die but to live. It was Leo Grillo’s idea. D.E.L.T.A. Rescue—Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals.

Judge Gujarati presided over the trial of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz. She excluded science but admitted brainwashing in her precedent-setting case and one by which she will likely be known in th annals of legal history. It is a landmark case.

Criminal Justice

Twenty Suits, Twenty Badges: The Day Fear Ruled Judge Gujarati’s Courtroom

The federal trial began in Brooklyn of Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone on May 5, 2025.

Mario Juarez: They met in Berkeley. A table for two. Wine, perhaps. Soft light. A magic dinner where crimes are whispered over appetizers. Juarez says she asked for more. Not for herself, but for Jones. Three million dollars if the city bought what they were selling.
She would make it easy, she said. Use emergency powers.
Of course, there’s no recording, no email, no napkin doodle, nothing.
Just Juarez stacking accusations like pancakes. He remembered every word.
No one else did. Just Juarez. A man with a bounced check and a full imagination.
And that’s how crimes get born now. Pass the salt.

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In Oakland Bribery Case, Prosecutors Lean on a Witness With a History of Fraud

On January 17, 2025, the final day of the Biden administration, federal prosecutors unsealed an eight-count indictment charging former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao; her partner, Andre Jones; recycling executive David Trung Duong; and Duong’s son, Andy Hung Duong, with conspiracy to commit bribery, subst

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DEPORT HER, DON’T PET HER; Illegal Immigrant Adriana Duarte Stole Food and Supplies From 1500 Dogs, Cats, Horses From No-Kill Sanctuary

An Example Worth Making

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‘IS SHE OUT?’: Letitia James Named in Shocking Abduction Allegation

Note: My original story on Letitia James, Ibrahim Khan and Angel DuBose, published on Artvoice and Frank Report, attracted the attention of President Donald Trump, who shared it on his social media. Since that story, published on April 30, appeared, significant additional information has come to my

Bernhard Fritsch

IS FORCING UNWANTED COUNSEL A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH? FRITSCH CASE MAY DEFINE ‘EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE’ FOR A GENERATION

The April 2025 trial of Bernhard Fritsch in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on two counts of wire fraud may represent a critical point in defining the Sixth Amendment protections. Despite securing millions to retain private counsel, a federal judge compelled Fritsch to