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GPS ruling could affect bakery leader’s appeal in Bailey murder(0)

January 24, 2012

Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that police need a warrant before placing tracking devices on criminal suspects’ cars is likely to boost murderer Yusuf Bey IV’s appeals, but significant hurdles remain before he would get a new trial, lawyers said.

GPS ruling could affect bakery leader’s appeal in Bailey murder
Yusuf Bey IV’s former attorney to be suspended from practice for smuggling documents

Yusuf Bey IV’s former attorney to be suspended from practice for smuggling documents

The former attorney for convicted triple murderer Yusuf Bey IV will be suspended from practicing law for two years after she admitted she smuggled documents out of jail for her client, including what she claimed was a love letter to a girlfriend but what turned out to be to instructions to destroy evidence.

Judge tosses out police sergeant’s lawsuit against Oakland

Judge tosses out police sergeant’s lawsuit against Oakland

A federal judge has dismissed Oakland police Sgt. Derwin Longmire’s discrimination suit against the city, ruling that there is no evidence that the department’s aborted attempt to fire him for his handling of the Chauncey Bailey murder investigation was improper.

State report ripped Longmire for Bey investigation

OAKLAND — Police Sgt. Derwin Longmire’s investigation of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 murder was so inadequate that a high-ranking commander said Longmire never should have been a homicide detective in the first place, according to a 2009 state Department of Justice report that was just released.


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