Author: Ken White

California continues to lead the nation in enacting effective measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.  This week, California authorities enacted sweeping emergency rules designed to release nonviolent offenders from pretrial detention without bail, reducing the risk and scale of jail outbreaks. Under normal circumstances, California’s criminal courts set bail...

Brown White & Osborn LLP’s lawyers regularly write about criminal justice and civil litigation issues for publications nationwide. Here are three recent examples: Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor at Reason Magazine, discussing how culture shapes prosecutorial behavior. Brock Turner: The Sort of Defendant Who Is Spared “Severe Impact,” at the FaultLines Blog,...

California Government Code Section 1090 (“Section 1090”) – which prohibits public officials and public employees from “making” public contracts in which they have a financial interest – is notoriously vague, broad, and malleable. The California Legislature recently aggravated those troublesome qualities by expanding Section 1090...