Court proceedings 
Judge denies Yusuf Bey IV’s request to be his own lawyer(0)
A Superior Court judge denied Yusuf Bey IV’s request Tuesday to represent himself against real estate fraud charges, saying Bey IV could not be trusted with special privileges after allegations he tried to have witnesses in an unrelated triple-murder case killed.
Chauncey Bailey trial date remains in limbo
A Superior Court judge on Monday gave lawyers for accused triple killers Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey two weeks to submit papers for a long-delayed change-of-venue motion or he would drop the matter and schedule the case for trial.
Hearing postponed for former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader
A hearing to determine whether former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV should be limited in his efforts to serve as his own attorney in a real estate fraud case was postponed Friday because the judge wasn’t ready to proceed.
Bakery leader’s lawyer smuggled witness hit list from jail, court records say
Yusuf Bey IV’s longtime lawyer, Lorna Patton Brown, smuggled a hit list out of jail in March that named witnesses her client wanted killed to prevent their testimony in his upcoming trial on charges of ordering journalist Chauncey Bailey and two others killed in 2007, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
More in this category:
- Judge dismisses most of Longmire’s lawsuit
- Bey IV tries to move murder trial out of Alameda County
- Bakery leader wants access to unmonitored phone calls in jail, prosecutors contend
- Judge postpones sentencing of Bakery member in torture kidnap case
- Yusuf Bey IV likely seeking venue change in Bailey trial
- Judging criminals is civic responsibility, jury forewoman in bakery trial says
- Bey IV associate guilty in kidnap-torture case
- Prosecutor: Bakery follower admitted guilt in jail call
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery member calls witnesses against him ‘liars’
- Bakery leader thought robbing drug dealer would net $500,000 to save bankrupt business
- Former bakery leader ordered car shooting, Yusuf Bey V testifies
- Bakery member turned on his co-horts immediately upon capture, he testifies
- Former bakery member turns on fellow members in court
- Woman tells of being beaten, threatened
- Former Oakland police officer testifies department backed off Your Black Muslim Bakery confrontations
- Defense: Lewis being framed in torture-kidnapping case
- Your Black Muslim Bakery was ideological center, prosecutor asserts
- Jury selection to continue in bakery member’s torture-murder case
- Convicted killer of Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Antar Bey asks for new trial
- No convictions in assault and torture case involving Your Black Muslim Bakery members
- Bakery members’ assault trial begins in Oakland
- Key witness missing as kidnapping-torture trial of an associate of the former Your Black Muslim Bakery nears
- Three trials of Your Black Muslim Bakery followers set for early 2010
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery members to stand trial on torture charges
- Judge: Yusuf Bey IV must stand trial on kidnap and torture charges
- Appeals briefs allege fratricide in bakery struggle
- Bakery CEO wanted journalist Bailey’s source killed
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery associate arrested in Missouri
- Another plea in kidnap case tied to Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV
- Release of transcript may be near in Bailey case
- Oakland bakery members accused of kidnap, torture back in court
- Prosecutors will not seek death penalty in slaying of journalist and two others
- Temporary gag order issued in Oakland journalist slaying case
- Broussard admits killing Chauncey Bailey
- Bey IV arraignment in journalist’s killing delayed
- Bakery leader will stand trial for kidnap, torture
- Bey IV’s attorney argues unsuccessfully to ban public, media from preliminary
- Bakery members give up right to second preliminary hearings
- Broussard tells grand jury about the slaying of Chauncey Bailey
- Bakery leader, other defendants enter pleas again in kidnap-torture case
- Bakery leaders and followers in court
- Kidnap, torture case against Your Black Muslim Bakery members temporarily dismissed
- Trial for suspect in Bailey’s killing to begin May 18
- Broussard trial delayed until at least late April
- Trial date postponed for accused killer of journalist
- Broussard trial delayed until February
- Bakery leader and 3 associates plead not guilty in kidnap-torture
- Your Black Muslim Bakery members ordered to stand trial in kidnapping, abduction of women
- Bey IV enters no contest plea in vandalism case
- Two bakery members reach plea deals in liquor store case
- Setting of trial date delayed in Bailey slaying
- Bankruptcy court trustee pitches deal with Your Black Muslim Bakery CEO’s mother
- Fake cruiser unraveled kidnapping, torture, officer says
- Bakery leader taped telling associates to ‘sacrifice another good soldier’
- Contempt sentencing for bakery member delayed
- Bakery associate cited for contempt
- Bey who took plea deal begins testimony
- Trial delayed for suspects in kidnapping, torture
- Joshua Bey breaks ranks with family
- Surprise guilty plea in kidnapping case
- Woman describes harrowing story of kidnap, torture
- Suspect in Bailey’s death enters not-guilty plea
- Ex-bakery members to be tried on vandalism charges
- Bakery associate calls land transfers legitimate
- Antar Bey’s killer gets life sentence in prison
- Wanted bakery associate nabbed in St. Louis
- Arraignment postponed for suspect in Bailey’s shooting
- DA cuts deal with informant in Antar Bey’s death
- Suspect in Bailey’s slaying says he took fall, will stand trial
- Suspect in journalist’s death ‘admitted involvement’ on tape
- Suspect in Antar Bey’s slaying found guilty
- Antar Bey assassinated, defense lawyer tells court
- Suspect in Bey killing told girlfriend to keep quiet, tape shows
- Witness points out suspect at Bey slaying trial
- Informant says suspect in Bey’s death boasted of slaying
- Attorney criticizes Oakland police tactics
- Prosecutor calls bakery leader’s death a carjacking gone wrong
- Fifth suspect arrested in women’s abduction
- Suspect in Bailey’s death pleads not guilty
- Antar Bey’s killing not linked to family politics, police say
- Another member of bakery faces charges
- Lawyer delays entering plea in case about Oakland editor
- Not-guilty plea in Oakland bakery kidnapping case
- County settles sex-abuse lawsuit implicating Bey
- Man with ties to bakery faces fraud charges
- Court appoints private lawyer for Bey
- Hearings postponed for defendants from bakery
- Bakery leader, cohorts face charges







