The Chauncey Bailey Project | Archive for 2011

Archive for 2011

Yusuf Bey IV’s former attorney to be suspended from practice for smuggling documents

The former attorney for convicted triple murderer Yusuf Bey IV will be suspended from practicing law for two years after she admitted she smuggled documents out of jail for her client, including what she claimed was a love letter to a girlfriend but what turned out to be to instructions to destroy evidence.

Judge tosses out police sergeant’s lawsuit against Oakland

A federal judge has dismissed Oakland police Sgt. Derwin Longmire’s discrimination suit against the city, ruling that there is no evidence that the department’s aborted attempt to fire him for his handling of the Chauncey Bailey murder investigation was improper.

State report ripped Longmire for Bey investigation

OAKLAND — Police Sgt. Derwin Longmire’s investigation of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 murder was so inadequate that a high-ranking commander said Longmire never should have been a homicide detective in the first place, according to a 2009 state Department of Justice report that was just released.

Yusuf Bey IV finally on his way to prison for murdering journalist, two others

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.

Yusuf Bey IV may be allowed to represent himself on kidnap, torture charges

Triple murderer Yusuf Bey IV will “probably” be allowed to represent himself on kidnapping and torture charges, a Superior Court judge said Thursday morning, but a formal decision won’t be made for several weeks because of security concerns.

Bey IV makes another attempt at self-representation — this time in kidnapping and torture case

OAKLAND — Convicted triple killer Yusuf Bey IV won’t leave Alameda County without a fight, asking a judge Friday morning to let him represent himself in another violent felony case that must be resolved before he can be sent to state prison.

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.

Broussard gets 25 years for killing Chauncey Bailey, Odell Roberson

OAKLAND — The man who gunned down journalist Chauncey Bailey and another man on instructions from the leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison.

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.

Police Sgt. Longmire sues Oakland again, now in state court

The former Oakland homicide detective who led the oft-criticized probe of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 slaying sued the city of Oakland for discrimination and retaliation this week in Alameda County Superior Court, even as his federal discrimination lawsuit against the city continues.