On April 20, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc. Sacramento Chapter and the Wiley W. Manuel Bar Association hosted High School Legislative Day, an immersive civic engagement program designed to help students understand how ideas become laws and why their voices matter in the political process.

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear the case of a man who was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting his roommate, who was sitting inside a vehicle at the Covina mobile home park where they lived.

Pretrial services programs aim to increase the safe and efficient release of arrested individuals before trial, using the least restrictive monitoring practices possible while still protecting public safety and ensuring court appearances.

The Third District Court of Appeal has held that a defendant convicted of a special circumstances murder that was committed when he was 23 years old was wrongly denied the opportunity to make a record of mitigating evidence related to his age for purposes of future parole proceedings under a Penal Code section applicable to “youthful offenders” that specifically excludes adult perpetrators who were sentenced to determinate life sentences.