Denny Walsh
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Babulal Bera gets one year prison sentence for election fraud
Bera, who also was fined $100,000, will likely serve 10 months in prison. He also was sentenced to three years of supervision upon release. → Read More
State supreme court rules in state’s favor on Delta-property rights
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state has the right to enter private property to conduct soil and environmental testing as part of a plan to divert fresh southbound water under or around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on its way to Central and Southern California. → Read More
Lawsuit alleges abuse of disabled inmates at Shasta County jail
A lawsuit filed late Wednesday in Sacramento federal court alleges horrific civil rights abuses of disabled inmates in the Shasta County jail. The suit also alleges retaliation by Sheriff’s Office staff against disabled inmates who complain about the absence of facilities that can be accessed by them. → Read More
Sacramento prosecutors help force Goldman Sachs to pay $5 billion
The numbers alone are staggering: $13 billion paid out by JPMorgan Chase to atone for its role in the economic meltdown of 2008, and more than $5 billion to be doled out by Goldman Sachs. → Read More
Puyallup man accused of threatening exec at biotech firm tied to Planned Parenthood
A Puyallup man has been charged in federal court in Sacramento, California, with threatening an individual at a biotech firm publicly connected to Planned Parenthood’s handling of fetal tissue and organs. → Read More
Man arrested for threatening officer at Placerville biotech firm tied to Planned Parenthood
A Washington state man has been charged in Sacramento federal court with making threats against an individual at a Placerville biotech firm publicly connected to Planned Parenthood’s handling of fetal tissue and organs. → Read More
Judge may allow lawsuit to proceed over inmate who died after being pepper-sprayed
State corrections officials have failed to rid themselves of a civil rights lawsuit over the death of a mentally ill inmate who breathed through a tube and was pepper sprayed in his face at point blank range. → Read More
Accused ISIS adherent back in court in Sacramento today
Accused Islamic State supporter Nicholas Teausant is scheduled to return to federal court in Sacramento Tuesday morning for a hearing that may resolve his case without a trial. → Read More
Former St. Francis athletic director settles suit against diocese
Kolleen “Koko” McNamee sat in her lawyer’s office Saturday and talked about the lasting scars left from her legal dispute over being fired as athletic director of St. Francis Catholic High School for girls. → Read More
Cameron Park businessman pleads guilty to stealing from tribe
Like his two co-conspirators before him, Darrell Patrick Hinz on Friday confessed his role in an $18 million theft from the United Auburn Indian Community, which owns the booming Thunder Valley Casino Resort near Lincoln. → Read More
Court rejects second appeal of Sacramento gang member’s murder conviction
An appellate court on Monday rejected the second appeal of a Sacramento gang member convicted of murder. → Read More
Jury awards Sacramento County man who was shot $530,340 in excessive force case
A federal court jury awarded a man $534,340 Friday on his excessive force claim that he was shot without warning by Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies when he opened his front door after they were banging on it. → Read More
Meadow Vista marijuana distriubtor sentenced to prison in federal court
Matthew Luke Gillum, admitted Internet drug dealer, was sentenced Friday in Sacramento federal court to nine years in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana and subverting a reporting requirement in connection with a currency transaction. → Read More
Sacramento jail refuses to release prisoner after he is acquitted
State and county jailers refused today to release Richard Alex Williams, who was acquitted of first degree murder and attempted murder charges Monday by a Sacramento Superior Court jury. → Read More
Extraordinary case: Court rules man was denied a public trial
A man serving a 15-year prison sentence for conspiring to burn down his North Natomas restaurant had his conviction thrown out earlier this month on a rare argument: His trial was not actually public. → Read More
Secret plea deal reached in Internet weapons, poison case
Federal prosecutors have reached a secret plea deal with a Carmichael man at the center of a bizarre case involving sales of poisons and weapons over the Internet. → Read More
Appeals court says Folsom can go ahead with improvements for Lake Natoma
A state appeals court has cleared the way for Folsom to add and enhance facilities on the shore of Lake Natoma. → Read More
Federal panel upholds ruling that Chico death penalty verdict was tainted
A split federal appellate panel on Monday upheld a Sacramento judge’s ruling that a death row inmate’s conviction and sentence for a gruesome double murder in Chico almost 29 years ago was tainted by racism and cannot stand. → Read More
Three more families settle with Rocklin school district over alleged abuse by special education teacher
The Rocklin Unified School District reached settlements this week with three additional families in a federal lawsuit regarding alleged abuse of students by a special education teacher. → Read More
West Sacramento to pay $4.11 million to victims of rapist police officer
Three years after West Sacramento Police Officer Sergio Alvarez was first suspected of prowling the streets and using his position to abduct and rape at least half a dozen women, the city has agreed to pay $4.11 million in settlements to four of his victims. → Read More