She testified that she gave $20 to Khalili and that he told her he worked for the jail, a claim she said he would use to threaten her once they were alone together. She testified she wanted to get back to her two sons in Oakland but agreed to smoke marijuana a daily habit and drink wine with Khalili in a local hotel room.
Isaac Landry, 51, no longer faces the charge in the Sept. 2 shooting of 43-year-old Robert Abeyta, a Rodeo resident shot during an early morning fight outside a store on the 3800 block of San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. Landry still faces charges of being an accessory after the fact a felony and leading police on a brief chase, a misdemeanor, records show
Anyone charged with a crime is constitutionally entitled to do so, though judges typically and often without success try to convince defendants that it's a terrible idea. With his pro per status affirmed last July, Tilley's first big challenge was a Dec. 1 preliminary hearing, a pretrial hearing where prosecutors must reach the low legal threshold of probable cause in order to convince a judge to advance the case.
A Stockton man was ordered Monday to stand trial on allegations he shoved a former racecar driver out of a wheelchair while working as a contracted security guard during a July 13 NASCAR event at Sonoma Raceway. Judge Laura Passaglia's ruling concluded Alexander Rosiles' preliminary hearing in Sonoma County Superior Court, where he's charged with assault and battery on Chase Johnson of Penngrove. Rosiles, who is out of custody, is scheduled to return to court Dec. 30 for arraignment.
The 22-year-old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk will have a court hearing on Monday where he and his newly appointed legal counsel will decide whether they want a preliminary hearing where the judge will determine if there is enough evidence against him to go forward with a trial. Prosecutors have charged Tyler Robinson with aggravated murder and plan to seek the death penalty.
A judge has ordered Ricardo Gonzalez Ruiz, whom Berkeley police shot at the end of a nearly hour-long standoff in April, to be tried on 10 felony charges and one misdemeanor. Two Berkeley police officers, a sergeant and a detective testified before Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon during Ruiz's day-long preliminary hearing Friday. Police had previously released information about the guns they found in Ruiz's apartment, a shotgun and a compressed air rifle, and that there had been evidence someone had fired the air rifle.
