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Santa Clara County DA: ‘No Matter How Long It Takes, We Will Bend the Arc...
The following is a transcript of Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s speech delivered Jan. 23, 2019, at his swearing-in to a third term. WE BEND THE ARC OF JUSTICE In The Beginning On my...
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State Senate Hopeful Ann Ravel Says She Regrets Endorsing Judge Persky’s...
Ann Ravel said she only ever defended Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky against a recall on principle. But the former Obama-appointed Federal Election Commission chair told San Jose Inside that she...
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‘Emily Doe’ Reveals Her Identity in New Memoir, ‘Know My Name’
Millions have known her as Emily Doe. Now, for the first time, the woman whose impact statement in the sexual assault case against Brock Turner four years ago went viral and galvanized the #MeToo...
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Lynbrook High School Faces Backlash for Hiring Ex-Judge Aaron Persky as...
UPDATE: Lynbrook High gave Aaron Persky the axe on Wednesday. In a statement to reporters, Persky said he was fired at 2pm from his part-time job as junior varsity girls tennis coach, and that Fremont...
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Op-Ed: Gov. Gavin Newsom Should Do the Right Thing and Fund Rape Crisis Centers
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today.” These words were spoken by Chanel Miller as she stared across a courtroom at Brock Turner in March 2016. Rapists can be...
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YWCA Returns Lawyer’s Donation for Statements ‘Deeply at Odds’ with...
The Silicon Valley YWCA returned a $4,500 donation from attorney James McManis over comments he made that downplayed Brock Turner’s sexual assault of Chanel Miller after a campus party at Stanford in...
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Recall Persky Campaign Leaders Call on Ann Ravel to Return Donations from Jim...
Stanford law professor Michele Dauber wants state Senate hopeful Ann Ravel to give back thousands in campaign cash from her current employer, prominent South Bay attorney James McManis. The push comes...
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Santa Clara County Moves Forward with Title IX Review
A review of how Santa Clara County K-12 schools and colleges are complying with Title IX rules and regulations is moving forward following a unanimous vote by the Board of Supervisors—the first review...
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DAWN Revokes Endorsement of State Senate Hopeful Ann Ravel
Democratic Activists for Women Now (DAWN) voted to rescind its endorsement of State Senate candidate Ann Ravel on Wednesday night over her opposition to Proposition 15 and refusal to give back...
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As California’s Attorney General Job Morphs Post-Trump, Who Will be Newsom’s...
The last time a California governor chose a new attorney general, Donald Trump had just been elected president. As Democrats geared up to make California the so-called “Resistance State,” newly...
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DA Candidate Sajid Khan Clashes with Los Gatos Sexual Assault Survivors
The public defender failed to disclose that he previously argued in support of Stanford student Brock Turner’s “lenient” sentence in June 2016. The post DA Candidate Sajid Khan Clashes with Los Gatos...
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Candidate Op-Ed: ‘I Apologize For the Insensitivity of My Words in 2016.’
'I now hold a deeper understanding of the perspectives and needs of survivors and a broader view of the crossroads of sexual violence and mass incarceration.' The post Candidate Op-Ed: ‘I Apologize For...
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