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Photo: Elias Funez For Jesse Wilson, prosecution is not simply an impersonal, bureaucratic service performed on behalf of the state. Prosecutors, he said, have a duty and a moral obligation to protect crime victims, and as Nevada County’s new district attorney, he wants to make it clear that, first and foremost, he’s taken the job to fight for victims in this community. “My number one goal is the protection of the public and holding those accountable who compromise that goal … I’m someone who approaches this position from a very victim-centric approach, which I think is the proper way to to look at prosecution,” Wilson said in his first sit-down interview with The Union. ....
One of the six co-defendants in an upcoming Nevada County murder trial was arrested Monday for violating the terms of his pretrial release, and will remain in custody until his trial. Dakari Mondell Harris, 22, currently living in Dallas, Texas, has pleaded not guilty to criminal conspiracy charges connected with the shooting death of 36-year-old Shanta Olsen. Harris was taken into custody Monday evening by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office, after having been ordered to appear in Nevada County to face allegations that he had violated the terms of his pretrial release. On Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Robert Tice-Raskin ordered that Harris remain jailed until trial due to numerous violations, after hearing evidence that afternoon from the Nevada County Probation Department that Harris was not compliant with the previously specified conditions. ....
Two of six men facing charges related to the alleged murder of Shanta Olsen were taken into custody Wednesday, while two other defendants were allowed to remain out on bail. Ronney Turner, 31, and Devon Deontae Jennings, 21, were taken to Nevada County jail after Judge Robert Tice-Raskin set their bond status to no bail, both defendant’s attorneys confirmed, meaning that both men will remain in custody until they stand trial. Dakari Mondell Harris, 22, and William Rynell Levise, 31, also charged in the case, were both allowed to remain out of custody and return home until trial, under pretrial release conditions specified at Wednesday’s hearing. ....