Alameda County Superior Court Judge Paul Seeman was arraigned on charges of elder financial abuse and 11 counts of perjury Friday. Seeman, 57, is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law and recently presided over a case in March in which he issued stay-away orders to four Occupy Read More…
A Berkeley man charged with the 2006 shooting of a former Berkeley High School student was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday by the Alameda County Superior Court. Bahsson Carl Smith, now 31, was found guilty of the murder — with personal and intentional discharge of a firearm — of Keith Stephens, who Read More…
Six years after the death of Berkeley native Keith Stephens, the man accused of killing him has started standing trial. Opening arguments began last week in Alameda County Superior Court as Deputy District Attorney Stacie Pettigrew told jurors that defendant Bahsson Carl Smith, now 31, almost got away with murder Read More…
OAKLAND, Calif. — A judge approved an agreement reached between attorneys representing the University of California and its police union Tuesday, clearing the path for the release of a widely anticipated report about the Nov. 18 pepper-spraying of students at UC Davis. The report has been caught up in litigation Read More…
Thursday’s preliminary hearing for UC Berkeley associate professor of English Celeste Langan, who has been issued criminal charges for her involvement in the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protest, was postponed until next month. The newly scheduled May 4 date will be almost six months after Langan’s initial arrest at the Read More…
An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled on Wednesday to allow the UC to release the portions of a widely anticipated report on the Nov. 18 UC Davis pepper spray incident that were still pending a court decision. In issuing the ruling, Judge Evelio Grillo rejected attempts by the Federated Read More…
The judge presiding over Friday’s hearing on whether to allow the release of a task force report on the Nov. 18 UC Davis pepper-spray incident signaled his intent to permit the report’s release in a tentative ruling late Thursday afternoon. In his 16-page tentative ruling, Alameda Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo Read More…
Nearly five months after the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously to foreclose on the almost $641,000 lien for the vacant lot at 2501 Haste St., the city has filed a lawsuit against the property owner. Court documents list property owner Kenneth Sarachan defendant in the suit, which was filed with the Read More…
Berkeley resident Roberto Rodriguez remembers his first day of work at Pacific Steel Casting Company — a landscape of heavy machinery, loud noises and flying embers. The company superintendent took him to the front gate and said, “Look, Bobby, it’s a hell in there.” At the time, Rodriguez was 19 Read More…
The Alameda County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order at a hearing Wednesday morning, instructing the Pacifica Foundation to sequester the ballots of Berkeley-based radio station KPFA’s recall election. Read More…
