An HIV+ felon sentenced to life for raping a woman in her own bed after breaking into her San Francisco apartment in the middle of the night has won parole after more than 11 years in prison. Roberto Detrinidad committed the crime in August 2013, was arrested ... More »
A black security guard who murdered two white teens in a racist shooting rampage at the Bay Area workplace he was hired to protect has had his parole temporarily blocked by California Governor Gavin Newsom, who told officials to look again at his parole plans.... More »
A violent thug on probation for a string of brutal street attacks in San Francisco’s Mission district, now accused of joining a Halloween beating and stabbing over a $100 debt, in the same spot as his earlier assaults, will appear in court today for a prelimin... More »
A Honduran drug trafficker, who won bail last week having been arrested again in the U.S., appeared in court today after probation officials said he damaged two separate ankle monitors since release. Santos Irias-Lobo, 35, remains a free man after a dubious ju... More »
A black security guard who murdered two white teens in a racist shooting rampage at the workplace he was hired to protect has won parole – despite an assurance given by the sentencing judge that he would spend the rest of his life in prison. Sebron Flenaugh op... More »
A condemned killer will make a remarkable return to Oakland’s streets after the state parole board decided he had served enough time for his three murders, two attempted murders and robbery. In a rampage across Oakland in the small hours of January 30 1989, Ro... More »
A felon who stabbed to death a good samaritan who intervened to help a woman he was knifing during a street robbery has won parole over the objection of a San Francisco prosecutor who said he was still too great a risk to release. Robert White murdered Michael... More »
A Salvadoran child sex abuser who stabbed his wife to death at their San Francisco home in 1996 has won parole after nearly three decades behind bars. Fred Orellana was convicted of murder after attacking his wife, Alicia Orellana, with a kitchen knife as she ... More »
A man sentenced to ‘life without parole’ for the 1996 torture and murder of a San Francisco boy was denied parole this afternoon after becoming eligible when prosecutors successfully petitioned a judge to resentence him to a lower term. Edward Kennedy brutal... More »
The work undertaken by progressive prosecutors to limit sentences imposed on criminals, or to keep malefactors out of prison entirely if they can, has been underway for years. And even if some of these district attorneys have suffered reverses when their effor... More »