Courts

April 2017

In Response to $1.44 Million Claim in Adult Protective Services Case, County Counter-Offers Less than $2,500

Trial Date Set for Two Men Charged in 2015 Murder and Home-Invasion Robbery

Attorney Allison Jackson Files $1.44 Million Claim Against County Over Adult Protective Services Case

Dinsmore Man Pleads Guilty to Wrecking the Environment for His Megagrow; Could Face Four and a Half Years in the Clink, DA Says

Neighbors Unload on ‘Evil Slumlords’ Floyd and Betty Squires in Closing Arguments of Small Claims Case

‘Manila Five’ Murder Trial Scheduled for May; More Charges Added to One Suspect’s Case This Morning

Trial for Arcata Woman Accused of Killing Baby Starts This Month

Jury to Hear Testimony About Murder Suspect Nickolas Johnson Firing at DA Investigators Coming to Arrest Him

March 2017

Audubon Society, Others File Suit to Stop Humboldt Bay Oyster Farm Expansion

Parents of Manila Homicide Victim Discuss the Unproven Molestation Claims that Motivated their Son’s Alleged Killers

Preliminary Hearing Set For Arcata Man Accused of Uploading, Hoarding Child Pornography

All Five Manila Killing Suspects to Stand Trial for Murder, Carjacking, Judge Rules Today

‘They Set Him Up to Be Killed’: Sheriff’s Investigator Relays Testimony of Jailhouse Informant in Manila Murder Case

Surprise in ‘Manila Five’ Murder Plot Trial; Eyewitness Identifies Shooter, and It’s Not the Man Charged With the Crime

Murder Suspect Nikolas Johnson, Who Was Shot By Investigators in Eureka Firefight, Will Stand Trial Later This Month

Marci Kitchen Surrenders Passport, Receives Court Permission to Travel to Oregon for Boyfriend’s Grandmother’s Birthday Party

Fortuna Murder Suspect Jon Goldberg’s Legal Team Continues to Push for Closed Courtroom for Hearing on Wife-Beating Charges

Marci Kitchen Has 48 Hours to Hand Over Her Passport

Fortuna Murder Suspect Jon Goldberg’s Attorney Asks Judge For Closed Hearing

Eureka Man Convicted of Setting Off Fireworks, Laying Down Spike Strip at Ex-Wife’s Attorney’s Home

Accused Murder Suspects in Eureka, Fortuna Shootings Both Appear in Court

Kitchen Trial Delayed Again; Preliminary Hearing on Manslaughter Charges Against Fortuna Mom Now Scheduled For May, Expected to Last Five Days

Eureka Man’s Murder Trial Pushed Back to April; Prosecution Will Try for the Third Time to Make Murder Charges Stick in Alleged Gang Killing of 14-Year-Old

Would-Be Burglar Who Was Beat Up by Liquor Store Clerk Will Stand Trial on Attempted Murder Charges in June

Del Norte Jury Convicts Serial Sex Offender of Molesting 15-Year-Old Girl, Providing Her With Methamphetamine

February 2017

Suspect in 2016 Armed Robbery Spree Set for Early Trial

HSU Student Sentenced to One Year for DUI Manslaughter; Ruling Upsets Supporters of Convicted Man and Victim Alike

Maxx Robison Held to Answer on Murder Charges; Defense Says He Only Intended to Shoot Up Empty Car When 19-Year-Old Women Was Killed

McCullens Motel Murder Trial: While Witnesses Detail the Boring Night of Drug Jonesing That Led to Shooting of 19-Year-Old Girl, Additional Victim Refuses to Testify

Clayton Lee Lasinski Gets April Trial Date; Armed Man Who Fled Eureka Police and Was Shot in the Chest Could Face 40 Years

Surprise Witness Delays Hearing on New Spousal Battery Charges for Accused Murderer Jon Goldberg

Trial Date Set for SoHum Man Accused of Opening Fire on Occupied Trailer in Garberville

Jury Finds McKinleyville Woman Guilty of Transporting Heroin

‘Manila Five’ Murder Plot Suspects Will Stand Trial Together; Hearing Scheduled for Next Month

Myers Flat Woman Charged With Murder in 2015 Marijuana DUI Crash That Killed Passenger; Trial Delayed, Again

Merrick Accused of Murder, DUI in Death of 16-Year-Old McKinleyville Girl, Could Face Life in Prison; Officers Describe the Scene in Court

Supervisors Appoint New Public Defender After Questionable Hiring Process

As Courts Desperately Seek More Space, Proposal to Move Law Library Sparks Concern About Access to Equal Justice

Clayton Lasinski, Man Who Fled From and Was Ultimately Shot by Eureka Police, Will Stand Trial on Numerous Charges; Could Face 40+ Years

McKinleyville Man Accused of Slashing Girlfriend’s Father’s Throat Will Stand Trial for Attempted Murder

Jury Awards $56.5 Million to Construction Worker Nearly Killed on Caltrans Project; Verdict Believed to be the Largest of Its Kind in Humboldt History

January 2017

Suspected Murderer Maxx Robison Considering Plea Deal

Federal Court Rules Sheriff, Correctional Officers May Be Sued in 2014 Jailhouse Death; Dismisses Case Against Eureka Police

Judge Orders Prosecutors to Hand Over Evidence to the Attorneys for Clayton Lee Lasinski, Who Was Shot by Eureka Police in December

DA: Serial Westhaven/Trinidad Burglar Sentenced to Eight Years

Trial Date Set for Three Suspects in 2014 Murder of 14-Year-Old Boy

State Supreme Court Refuses to Depublish Scathing Ruling Against County in Adult Protective Services Case

Was the Man Accused of Rebar-Assault at a Petrolia Campground Insane?

Man Accused of 2015 Garberville Killing Appears in Court After Being Extradited From Florida; Man Formerly Accused of the Murder Released

Manila Five in Court: Two Confessed to Plot, Three Have Not — Should Their Cases Be Merged?

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