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A journalist killed for his reporting found his life’s work through reading(0)

April 7, 2022

By Thomas Peele The subscriber to the Hayward Daily Review used a racial slur to complain about the Black child delivering his newspaper. The circulation manager told the man that if he wanted to keep getting the paper, he should get used to his new carrier. Later, the manager pulled the tall, skinny paperboy aside […]

A journalist killed for his reporting found his life’s work through reading

Appellate justice says change of venue major issue in Chauncey Bailey murder appeal

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for a pair of men convicted in the 2007 murders of journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other men argued before a state appellate panel on Wednesday that their clients deserve new trials, but the justices appeared more interested in a point they barely raised: Should the sensational trial have been moved out of Oakland?

Lawyer said it was ‘stupid’ to smuggle witness list from jail for Your Black Muslim Bakery leader

SAN FRANCISCO — With the state Bar out to strip her of her law license, East Bay attorney Lorna Brown admitted in court Tuesday that she and her former client Yusuf Bey IV jotted down the names of witnesses in the murder case of an Oakland journalist during a jailhouse visit and smuggled it past guards.

Lawyer faces loss of license for allegedly smuggling hit list from jail for Your Black Muslim Bakery leader

OAKLAND — A prominent defense attorney will be fighting to keep her law license Tuesday, the latest twist in the saga of Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV’s alleged plot to kill witnesses in the murder of an Oakland journalist.


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