Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott said she will not pursue prosecutions of people arrested for nonviolent crimes such as failing to disperse or unlawful assembly during protests against police brutality and racial injustice over the past couple of weeks. San Diego police have said they arrested 113 people on charges ranging from unlawful assembly to vandalism, looting and assaulting an officer. Elliott said, however, that people arrested on suspicion of more violent conduct, even if they are also charged with...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott said she will not pursue prosecutions of people arrested for nonviolent crimes such as failing to disperse or unlawful assembly during protests against police brutality and racial injustice over the past couple of weeks. San Diego police have said they arrested 113 people on charges ranging from unlawful assembly to vandalism, looting and assaulting an officer. Elliott said, however, that people arrested on suspicion of more violent conduct, even if they are also charged with...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With the stroke of a pen by a Superior Court judge in California, nearly 26,000 people with felony marijuana convictions on their records had them reduced to less onerous misdemeanor convictions last month.In addition, some 1,000 people with misdemeanor marijuana convictions had those cases completely dismissed.The moves came in a three-page order signed by San Diego County Superior Court Judge Eugenia A. Eyherabide on Feb. 5. The mass reduction and dismissals came almost a year after the San Diego County district attorney’s office...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With the stroke of a pen by a Superior Court judge in California, nearly 26,000 people with felony marijuana convictions on their records had them reduced to less onerous misdemeanor convictions last month.In addition, some 1,000 people with misdemeanor marijuana convictions had those cases completely dismissed.The moves came in a three-page order signed by San Diego County Superior Court Judge Eugenia A. Eyherabide on Feb. 5. The mass reduction and dismissals came almost a year after the San Diego County district attorney’s office...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Almost a year after a city auditor’s report described a years-long gift giving scheme between a city contractor and an employee, San Diego has taken the first step toward permanently banning the contractor from city work.On Feb. 2, lawyers for San Diego filed a complaint in state administrative law court seeking to debar, or ban, American Asphalt South from any future city work. The company specializes in applying slurry seal, a material applied to streets that is meant to extend the life of the underlying asphalt....…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Almost a year after a city auditor’s report described a years-long gift giving scheme between a city contractor and an employee, San Diego has taken the first step toward permanently banning the contractor from city work.On Feb. 2, lawyers for San Diego filed a complaint in state administrative law court seeking to debar, or ban, American Asphalt South from any future city work. The company specializes in applying slurry seal, a material applied to streets that is meant to extend the life of the underlying asphalt....WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Using social media posts and tips, federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Coronado man who served five years in the U.S. Army and charged him with participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. Jeffrey Alexander Smith, 33, was charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and unlawful entry into a restricted building, according to a federal complaint. Both charges are misdemeanors. He made his first appearance in federal court in downtown San Diego Thursday afternoon....…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Using social media posts and tips, federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Coronado man who served five years in the U.S. Army and charged him with participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. Jeffrey Alexander Smith, 33, was charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and unlawful entry into a restricted building, according to a federal complaint. Both charges are misdemeanors. He made his first appearance in federal court in downtown San Diego Thursday afternoon....WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement In the waning hours of his term in office President Donald Trump issued a sweeping array of pardons and commutations to politicians, white collar criminals, former associates, and well-connected lobbyists.The list ranged from the well known to the obscure. It included former Trump strategist Steven Bannon, former top fundraiser Elliott Broidy, and — of acute interest to San Diego — former Republican congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham, who received a partial pardon for his 2005 guilty pleas to accepting bribes....…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement In the waning hours of his term in office President Donald Trump issued a sweeping array of pardons and commutations to politicians, white collar criminals, former associates, and well-connected lobbyists.The list ranged from the well known to the obscure. It included former Trump strategist Steven Bannon, former top fundraiser Elliott Broidy, and — of acute interest to San Diego — former Republican congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham, who received a partial pardon for his 2005 guilty pleas to accepting bribes....WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement In his final hours in office former President Donald Trump reached back into San Diego’s ignominious political history and issued a partial pardon of former Republican Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham, who spent eight years in prison for accepting millions in what has been described as the largest congressional bribery scandal in history. While the move by Trump gives Cunningham some legal rights that convicted felons lack, such as owning a firearm, it is not a clean slate. The pardon is “conditional,” and...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement In his final hours in office former President Donald Trump reached back into San Diego’s ignominious political history and issued a partial pardon of former Republican Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham, who spent eight years in prison for accepting millions in what has been described as the largest congressional bribery scandal in history. While the move by Trump gives Cunningham some legal rights that convicted felons lack, such as owning a firearm, it is not a clean slate. The pardon is “conditional,” and...WW…