#preliminary-hearing

#preliminary-hearing

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.

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.