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		<title>Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy Charged With Accepting $20 Grand in Bribes to Smuggle Contraband into Men&#8217;s Central Jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was charged today, Friday, with agreeing to accept $20,000 in bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband to an inmate inside the troubled Men&#8217;s Central Jail, the facility that has been ground zero for the inmate-abuse-by-deputies scandal.

The case against Gilbert Michel, 38, was announced by United States Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arresting Alex Sanchez: Part 10 &#8211;  Judge Manual Real is Removed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Wednesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made the surprising decision to remove  controversial Judge Manual Real from the federal RICO case that involves Alex Sanchez.  
This news shocked nearly everyone who is closely tracking the Sanchez matter.  Yanking a federal judge from a case is anything but business as usual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In FBI Probe Into LA Jails Abuse, Feds Slip Inmate Cell Phone to Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In a well-reported story in Sunday&#8217;s LA Times  Robert Faturechi writes that the FBI is investigating beatings of inmates and misconduct by deputies in the LA County Jail system&#8212;indicating a far wider probe by the Feds into abuse inside the jails than had previously been disclosed. 
This is good news.
It had already been reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Humes Examines the Case Against Alex Sanchez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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When California Lawyer Magazine contacted Pulitzer-winning author/journalist, Edward Humes, to write something about the case of Alex Sanchez (published in their February issue),  Humes said he first took the story assignment because he was intrigued by the notion that someone as beloved as gang intervention leader Sanchez  was said to be living an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Wants to Wiretap the Internet (It&#8217;s Worse Than You Think)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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As you may or may not have heard, the FBI is now very worried that bad guys are texting and Skype-ing  and Facebook-messaging each other (Duh!), and that law enforcement can&#8217;t wiretap these forms of communication the way they can cell phones, land lines, email and the like.  
Okay, one can understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Details of Latest Alex Sanchez Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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For those of you following the Alex Sanchez case, Tom Hayden has a story in the Nation that gives more of the details of the hearing that took place earlier this month.
Hayden describes how Sanchez&#8217; attorney, Kerry Bensinger, makes some intriguing legal points.  I don&#8217;t think Judge Real will buy them, but Real seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Sanchez Granted Bail &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 Around 11:30, at the end of the closed hearing that began at 10 a.m. Alex Sanchez attorney Kerry Bensinger came out of the federal courtroom  to talk to Sanchez family and a very, very small handful of supporters, whom he drew into a side room and broke the news. U.S. District Judge  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanchez Hearing to be Behind Closed Doors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Wednesday January 13, at 10 am,  Judge Manuel Real will conduct yet one more hearing (or the second part of one more hearing) into the matter of whether or not Homies Unidos founder Alex Sanchez should be allowed bail.  
Last week, if you&#8217;ll remember, Judge Real surprised all concerned by asking to talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Sanchez:  Part 9 &#8211; Judicial Whiplash &amp; &#8220;Real&#8221; Surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real, the latest bail hearing for Alex Sanchez, held took a sharp turn on Wednesday morning, causing Sanchez supporters to bask cautiously in what seemed to be a small but tangible glimmer of hope.  
The changed atmosphere at the hearing seemed presaged when Sanchez was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Sanchez &#8211; Part 8:  Back to Square One&#8230;.Sort Of</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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FEDERAL BAIL HEARINGS &#038; GROUNDHOG DAY: WHO JUDGES THE JUDGES?
Alex Sanchez, the gang intervention leader and Homies Unidos founder who was indicted last June on federal Rico charges, is going back to court at 10 a.m. on Wednesday January 6 for another bail hearing.
It will be his third. 
Most criminal cases feature a single bail [...]]]></description>
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