Matt Ferner

Trump’s pardon process is unorthodox. But his willingness work around a deeply flawed Justice Department system has advocates for clemency reform hopeful.

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The judge was removed from 46 of 49 cases between February 2014 and September 2015 in a practice known as “papering the judge.” O.C.’s Supervising Superior Court Judge Richard King is not fond of the practice and on December 3 rejected the request to disqualify Goethals from a murder case, People v.…

Judge Goethals kicked the DA’s entire office off a mass-murder penalty-phase case last month over misconduct allegations. Prosecutors then requested that the judge be disqualified from 57 of their cases since February 2014, compared to just five in the three previous years. That is known in the trad…

Tough hearings ahead for Becerra + LA prosecutor quits DA association + Black Minds Matter  Sacramento Bee

The Los Angeles city attorney has told Realm of Caring it does not fit under the city’s year-old medical marijuana ordinance and must close. The group, cited last August for its cannabis treatment of child epilepsy by Gupta in a laudatory CNN documentary, has an outpost in the city. Most alleged dis…

Matt Ferner  The Appeal