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Lawyer said it was ‘stupid’ to smuggle witness list from jail for Your Black Muslim Bakery leader(0)
April 23, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — With the state Bar out to strip her of her law license, East Bay attorney Lorna Brown admitted in court Tuesday that she and her former client Yusuf Bey IV jotted down the names of witnesses in the murder case of an Oakland journalist during a jailhouse visit and smuggled it past guards.
Lawyer faces loss of license for allegedly smuggling hit list from jail for Your Black Muslim Bakery leader
OAKLAND — A prominent defense attorney will be fighting to keep her law license Tuesday, the latest twist in the saga of Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV’s alleged plot to kill witnesses in the murder of an Oakland journalist.
Judge expected to throw out Sgt. Derwin Longmire’s discrimination suit against Oakland
HAYWARD — A Superior Court judge has tentatively thrown out a discrimination suit against Oakland and two police commanders brought by a former homicide detective who claimed internal investigations of how he probed the 2007 murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey were motivated by religious and racial prejudice.
Former attorney for Yusuf Bey IV faces new disciplinary charges
The State Bar of California has filed new disciplinary charges against Berkeley lawyer Lorna Brown that could lead to her disbarment for smuggling documents, including an alleged hit list, out of an Alameda County jail in 2010 for her then client, former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV.
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- California Supreme Court rejects proposed punishment for former attorney of Yusuf Bey IV
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery member not guilty in gun case
- New details emerge in case against Yusuf Bey IV’s former attorney
- San Francisco attorney LeRue Grim facing disbarment over ethical breaches
- 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
- Judge tosses out police sergeant’s lawsuit against Oakland
- State report ripped Longmire for Bey investigation
- Yusuf Bey IV finally on his way to prison for murdering journalist, two others
- Yusuf Bey IV may be allowed to represent himself on kidnap, torture charges
- Bey IV makes another attempt at self-representation — this time in kidnapping and torture case
- Life terms for two men who murdered journalist Chauncey Bailey
- Broussard gets 25 years for killing Chauncey Bailey, Odell Roberson
- Police Sgt. Longmire sues Oakland again, now in state court
- Sentencing postponed in Bailey murder trial
- Commentary: Chauncey Bailey Project – A Journalistic Collaboration
- Bey brother released from jail after meeting terms of plea bargain
- Commentary: Richard Prince’s Journal-isms
- Analysis: Jurors took the ‘demon’ over the ‘devil’ in Bailey murder trial
- Chauncey Bailey murder: ‘Justice has finally been done’
- Murder convictions cap a ‘great day for journalists’
- UPDATE: Bey IV guilty on all charges for ordering Chauncey Bailey, two other men killed
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV guilty for murdering Chauncey Bailey
- Reading of verdict in Bailey case may be delayed
- Jury has reached verdict in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Bailey jurors continue deliberations
- Jury begins deliberations in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Prosecution’s case is built on lies, defense attorneys argue
- Bey IV is no saint, but he did not order journalist’s slaying, defense says
- Prosecutor lays out arguments against Yusuf Bey IV
- Yusuf Bey IV ‘not a normal person,’ prosecutor says
- Mackey takes stand to deny killings
- Man accused in journalist’s slaying says he never killed anyone
- Accused killer Mackey takes the stand
- Witness says real killer never charged in homeless man’s death
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery member refuses to testify
- Prosecution rests case in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Your Black Muslim Bakery leader said slain journalist ‘slandered’ his father
- Another Bailey slaying trial witness has memory problems
- Reluctant witnesses take the stand in Chauncey Bailey trial
- Jurors hear police recording saying Bey IV bragged about journalist’s death
- Bey IV accuses judge of being unfair; officer puts Mackey near a killing
- Your Black Muslim Bakery leader accuses judge of unfairness in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Tracking device puts bakery leader’s car at Chauncey Bailey shooting scene, officer testifies
- Chauncey Bailey trial: Bey IV’s former girlfriend said she can’t remember key details
- Chauncey Bailey jurors watch secret video, hear more witnesses
- Chauncey Bailey jurors watch secret video
- Judge allows large portions of video mocking journalist’s death to be played for jurors
- Chauncey Bailey trial: Witness saw man running like a football player away from 2007 shooting scene
- Chauncey Bailey trial: Attorneys to debate how much jurors should see of secret video
- Chauncey Bailey jurors to see video in which bakery leader appears to mock killing
- Police investigator in Bailey murder testifies about his handling of the case
- Hundreds of bullets, rifle rounds and shotguns shells seized from Bey IV’s bedroom, officer testifies
- Chauncey Bailey’s anonymous source testifies Wednesday in the journalist’s murder trial
- Witness: Bey IV had Bailey killed, whites are devils, bakery was a beautiful place
- Jurors hear tapes of Broussard’s jailhouse phone calls
- Defense attorney moves to restrict access to news publications for jurors in the Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Bailey murder trial postponed Thursday because of attorney illness
- Defense attorney: Broussard is lying about Bailey murder to protect a ‘cousin’
- Man testifies that Yusuf Bey IV borrowed his white van the morning of the Bailey killing
- Bailey witness Broussard can’t remember specific ‘kill’ order from Yusuf Bey IV
- Devaughndre Broussard’s credibility on trial in Chauncey Bailey murder case
- Bailey’s confessed killer says he turned against Bey IV who abandoned him
- Bailey’s confessed killer said he turned against his friends in anger over how they treated him
- ‘Make sure he dead,’ Chauncey Bailey’s confessed killer says he was told
- Chauncey Bailey’s confessed killer testifies Monday in graphic detail about shooting the journalist
- Witness in Chauncey Bailey murder trial released from jail
- Saleem Bey, relative of Black Muslim Bakery leader arrested when he didn’t show up to testify in Bailey murder trial
- Life history of key witness won’t be presented in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Chauncey Bailey murder trial delayed by alternate juror’s illness
- Broussard bursts into laughter describing 2007 slaying
- Breaking news: Broussard bursts into laughter describing 2007 slaying
- Breaking news: Broussard says work at bakery marked by death threats, no paycheck
- KQED’s host Belva Davis discusses Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Confessed gunman Broussard takes the stand
- Chauncey Bailey killer tells about life at Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Chauncey Bailey killer struggles with testimony
- Bailey jurors see grisly photos, confessed gunman
- Questioning foreshadows blistering attack on credibility of star witness in Bailey murder trial
- Breaking news: Loaded shotguns taken from bakery compound, says officer
- Witnesses take the stand in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Shotgun shell, videotape among key evidence in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Breaking news: Prosecutor says shell from murder weapon found in Bey IV bedroom
- Breaking News: Jury tentatively seated in Bailey murder trial
- Chauncey Bailey murder trial expected to begin Monday in Oakland courtroom
- CBS News releases transcripts of Broussard’s 2008 interview with “60 Minutes”
- Trial of two men charged with killing Chauncey Bailey on track to start later this month
- Bailey murder trial will stay in Alameda County
- Jury screening concludes in Bailey murder trial; final jury to be selected March 21
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader questions whether judge can be fair
- Your Black Muslim Bakery follower gets 10 years in torture, kidnap case
- Mackey, Bey IV to be tried together in Bailey murder trial, judge rules
- Judge in Bey trial says Orwellian surveillance not a privacy violation
- Judge rules fraud evidence OK for Bey murder trial
- Bakery associate accused in witness hit plot appears in court on shooting charge
- Member of Your Black Muslim Bakery sentenced to life
- Chauncey Bailey murder case: Most evidence in plot to kill witnesses can be used
- Lawyer in Chauncey Bailey case is resigning from practice of law
- Trial in Chauncey Bailey murder case begins
- Part of Longmire’s amended civil rights lawsuit can proceed
- Judge delays start of Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Judge rejects making quick decision on moving Chauncey Bailey trial
- Trial date set in Chauncey Bailey slaying case
- Judge: Bailey murder trial will stay in Oakland — for now
- Chauncey Bailey family makes plea to judge: Don’t move murder trial
- Judge to rule next week on whether to move Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- Judge hears arguments for moving trial in Chauncey Bailey case
- Judge denies Yusuf Bey IV’s request to be his own lawyer
- Chauncey Bailey trial date remains in limbo
- Hearing postponed for former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader
- Bakery leader’s lawyer smuggled witness hit list from jail, court records say
- 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
- Two defendants plead not guilty in Oakland journalist slaying case; 800 pages of testimony ordered released
- 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
Slideshow: Michael J. Wills Jr.
A Day Late in Oakland
Evidence Ignored: A Timeline
Chauncey Bailey: life and work
Bailey killing figure had troubled youth
Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing
Unsolved 1986 slaying of baker linked to founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part II: Testimony reveals a life of abuse, toil for women of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part I: One police officer cracked abuse case against Yusuf Bey
Nedir Bey evades trouble over election finances
Were Oakland police afraid of Black Muslim bakery?
Muslim bakery family linked to real estate broker accused of fraud
