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Yusuf Bey IV finally on his way to prison for murdering journalist, two others(0)
October 7, 2011
OAKLAND — Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader and convicted triple killer Yusuf Bey IV is finally on his way to state prison after prosecutors dropped the last remaining case against him Friday.
Life terms for two men who murdered journalist Chauncey Bailey
As members of victims’ families cried in a crowded courtroom Friday, former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and an associate were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other men in 2007.
A sloppy investigation of a sloppy investigation
Two inquiries into an Oakland police detective’s questionable investigation of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 murder were so flawed that commanders couldn’t determine what happened and dropped efforts to fire him, legal documents show.
Commentary: Chauncey Bailey Project – A Journalistic Collaboration
Commentary: At a time when two reports are heralding the importance of journalistic collaboration in this age of rapid media transformation, an Oakland, Calif., jury succinctly made just that point when it convicted Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey of murdering journalist Chauncey Bailey.
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- Commentary: Chauncey Bailey verdict brings long-awaited justice
- 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
- 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
- KTVU: OPD cover-up emerges in Bailey murder investigation
- 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 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
- Reporter gets new death threat while investigating fraud allegations against Your Black Muslim Bakery associate
- Allegations of real estate fraud dog former associate of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- 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
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- 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
- Life history of key witness won’t be presented in Chauncey Bailey murder trial
- 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
- Questioning foreshadows blistering attack on credibility of star witness in Bailey murder trial
- Breaking news: Loaded shotguns taken from bakery compound, says officer
- Bakery associate accused in witness hit plot appears in court on shooting charge
- Member of Your Black Muslim Bakery sentenced to life
- Convicted killer of Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Antar Bey asks for new trial
- Three trials of Your Black Muslim Bakery followers set for early 2010
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- BART board strips Bey firm of contract
- Former bakery associate loses BART contract
- Bey firm awarded BART contract for up to $1 million
- Nedir Bey withdraws Oakland charter school petition
- Former Your Black Muslim Bakery matriarch to lose real-estate license
- Law catching up with Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Aljawwaad’s brief reign as bakery CEO ended in tragedy
- Chauncey Bailey remembered by family, friends on the one-year anniversary of his death
- Your Black Muslim Bakery supporters plan protest rally on anniversary of Bailey’s killing
- Additional cases
- Unsolved 1986 slaying of baker linked to founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Bakery bidding: Few takers for last Bey photos and posters
- Police reopen 1968 Santa Barbara mosque slaying investigation
- Relics of bakery’s past go up for sale
- Change under way at former bakery building
- Several Muslim bakery members linked to crimes
- Police take another look at 1982 slaying linked to bakery
- AIDS nonprofit aims to buy Oakland bakery building
- Police search closed Oakland bakery again
- Bey mother involved in sale of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Your Black Muslim Bakery goes up for sale
- African-American Muslims reflect on current events
- Politician tried to help bakery avoid bankruptcy
- Rep. Lee backs off support for Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Bakery violates health codes
- Slain editor’s bakery source surfaces
- Bakery enterprise spirals out of control
- Your Black Muslim Bakery members suspected in Bailey’s death
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
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Muslim bakery family linked to real estate broker accused of fraud
