Criminal Defense News

• California – Assemblyman Mike Feuer launches bid for Los Angeles city attorney
• THE WEEK’S CASES: for the week ending February 10, 2012
• California – New Vacaville prison mental health center opens
• Caifornia – Report: Counties’ modern secure facilities have enough institutional capacity for juvenile justice realignment
• California – San Joaquin County Supervisors will compare cost of public defender’s office with contract attorneys
• Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: California’s death penalty law: It simply does not work
• Assembly Bill 327 (AB 327) – The Fix for Unfairness in California’s Three Strikes Law
• Q&A: Alan Jackson on why counties should be able to send inmates out of state
• Chief justice goes after Assembly, process over funding bill
• Jody Patel named interim administrative director of state courts