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Former decorated Tulare County Sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Ray Ramirez faces up to six years, four months in state prison following five felony convictions Friday involving domestic violence.
The jury also convicted Ramirez of six misdemeanors, giving the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office a clean sweep on its 11 counts.
Deputy district attorney Katrina Brownson prosecuted the case.
Ramirez received four felony convictions for crimes between May 2018 and July 2019. Those were for corporal injury on a significant other, stalking, intimidating a witness, and intimidating the victim.
The jury also found Ramirez guilty of a felony for intimidating a second witness, a minor, in May 2019.
That proposal had been part of the council’s long term plan, to the ire of some in the industry. Councillors heard public submissions from publicans and hospitality industry representatives early last week, who said country pubs were struggling and compliance costs had compounded revenue decreases from Covid-19 related closed borders. At meeting on Wednesday, councillors put forth and passed a motion to revoke the bylaw effective, July 1, 2022, and use more of the rates take to pay for managing the licensing business unit, which had been running at a deficit. Council staff had presented an option to revoke the bylaw, which would be more consistent with the majority of councils in New Zealand, policy analyst Carrie Williams says in a report presented at the meeting.
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties is a kaleidoscopic look at a formative decade
Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley show us that we must learn about the past in order to change the world today.
From the very first page of
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties which situates readers in an atmospheric description of the Black Lives Matter protest held at Town Hall in June last year Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley underpin their kaleidoscopic vision of the Sixties with a continual awareness of how the struggles of the past are both connected to, and vastly different from, the present.
The book immerses readers in the radical political and counter-cultural spirit of the Sixties, pulling together Meredith and Nadia’s own stories with interviews of 18 figures, each with their own chapter, many of whom encountered radical ideas at the University of Sydney and its surroundings. While the stories have common anchor-points notably, opposition to Australia’s military involvemen
THE crown courts in Essex have been on full throttle once again this week. Serious crimes have been dealt with by defendants being sentenced, and trials of major alleged crimes have been playing out as well. Here is a rundown of the most serious cases heard at Basildon and Chelmsford Crown Courts this week.
Gang tried to kill man by setting him on fire
Southchurch Avenue Basildon Crown Court heard that four people allegedly tried to murder the man in Southchurch Avenue, Southend on October 30, 2019. Shocking police body cam footage showed PC Rebecca Halifax attending an emergency call and finding the man with severe burns across his body sat in a bedroom.
THE crown courts in Essex have been on full throttle once again this week. Serious crimes have been dealt with by defendants being sentenced, and trials of major alleged crimes have been playing out as well. Here is a rundown of the most serious cases heard at Basildon and Chelmsford Crown Courts this week.
Gang tried to kill man by setting him on fire
Southchurch Avenue Basildon Crown Court heard that four people allegedly tried to murder the man in Southchurch Avenue, Southend on October 30, 2019. Shocking police body cam footage showed PC Rebecca Halifax attending an emergency call and finding the man with severe burns across his body sat in a bedroom.