Accused Gunman Testifies In 2008 SF Triple Killing Case
A man accused of killing a father and two sons in San Francisco's Excelsior District in the summer of 2008 took the stand Monday to testify on his own behalf.
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A man accused of killing a father and two sons in San Francisco's Excelsior District in the summer of 2008 took the stand Monday to testify on his own behalf.
The women who helped raise accused triple murderer Edwin Ramos testified Monday about his life leading up to the 2008 killings in San Francisco's Excelsior District.
The trial of Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of killing a father and two sons in San Francisco in 2008, will enter a new phase next week after the prosecution rested its case on Tuesday.
A Contra Costa County prosecutor has filed a claim against his bosses in the district attorney's office, claiming malicious prosecution and defamation as a result of rape charges against him.
The 44-year-old Smith, who played with the Los Angeles and Oakland Raiders between 1991 and 1998, is charged with the beating and shooting death of 31-year-old Maurilio Ponce in October 2008.
Attorneys met briefly with Judge Garrett Wong in the San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's domestic violence trial Tuesday, shortly before a scheduled day of jury selection came to a quick end.
During a pretrial hearing Monday in the Ross Mirkarimi domestic violence case, an ex-girlfriend testified about an alleged physical confrontation involving the San Francisco sheriff.
Dueling legal maneuvers put the hold on jury selection Monday in the domestic violence case against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
The attorney for San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi filed a motion Wednesday asking a judge to exclude statements his wife made to neighbors about an alleged domestic violence incident between the couple on New Year's Eve.
A Sacramento woman will stand trial on charges of killing her 7-week-old daughter by placing her in a microwave oven.
The brother-in-law of Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of murder in a drive-by shooting that killed a father and his two sons in San Francisco in 2008, said such shootings are forbidden by the MS-13 gang.
A federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco today that a video recording of a 2010 trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 must remain sealed.
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi parted ways with his attorney on the eve of a scheduled court hearing in his domestic violence case, and also as prosecutors released their witness list for his trial.
A San Francisco police sergeant testified Tuesday in the trial of Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of murdering a father and two of his sons in San Francisco's Excelsior District in 2008.
Photos of two Yuba County women who were murdered in the 1990s were found in a safe deposit box belonging to Joseph Naso, the man accused of killing them and two Bay Area women, a Nevada detective testified Thursday morning.
A judge on Wednesday ordered Antonio Mouton to stand trial on charges that he raped one woman and tried to sexually assault two others at a Walnut Creek apartment complex in the summer of 2010.
Former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds asked a federal judge Tuesday to order him to serve on probation, rather than a prison term, when he is sentenced next week for obstructing justice before a grand jury eight years ago.
The murder trial of a man who allegedly chased down and killed a 16-year-old Redwood City boy for throwing a rock at a car he was in started Monday morning in San Mateo County Superior Court.
A federal civil rights trial involving accusations that former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle used excessive force in a November 2008 incident in Oakland is set to begin in San Francisco on Tuesday.
A cost-saving program to divert low-level crimes away from criminal courts to community courts in San Francisco neighborhoods has been so successful it's being expanded to seven other neighborhoods.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has put the brakes on unsealing video recordings of last year's high-profile trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban.
The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage want a federal judge in San Francisco to put the brakes on unsealing video recordings of last year's high-profile trial on the constitutionality of voter-approved Proposition 8.
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered that a video of last year's trial on Proposition 8 be unsealed and made available to the public.
One of five defendants charged with the 2008 murder of Novato businessman Tong Van Le pleaded guilty Friday to involuntary manslaughter, and an attorney for one of the other defendants said the plea prompted a decision to delay the start of the trial.
The seventh defendant was acquitted of all charges, which stemmed from a string of violence in San Francisco's Mission District in 2008.
