Jury Selection Complete Despite Batson Challenge in Fresno Excessive Use of Force Trial.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 10, 2013 Jury Selection Complete Despite Batson Challenge in Fresno Excessive Use of Force Trial. Fresno, CA January 10, 2013– U.S v. Christopher Coleman, Paul Van Dalen, Sean Plymale and Mike Manfredi Judge Anthony Ishii finally swore in a jury of 12 plus four alternates at ...Read More
EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO CREATE VALUE
EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO CREATE VALUE Anyone involved with their union or employee organization would be well advised to read the recent article by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. in the Wall Street journal entitled “What Labor Could Learn Form NFL Refs”. Jenkins, Jr. accurately concludes that the reason the NFL ...Read More
HEALTH OF PUBLIC PENSION SYSTEMS TIED TO CALIFORNIA’S MOUNTAIN OF DEBT
How does it feel knowing that your pension is tied to the success or failure of the high-speed rail project? Both the short and long term health and viability of California’s State and Local Pension Funds are tied directly to how California deals with its other massive debt obligations. It ...Read More
CCSO Vice President Video Testimonial: His Criminal Trial Win
Paul Goyette, Managing Partner at G&A recently represented Chris Gold: CCSO’s Vice President in a criminal trial that would have cost him his career, reputation and entire way of life. To watch the video on YouTube, click Criminal Trial Client Testimonial ...Read More
Right to Meet and Confer Upheld for Chico POA
After a 13 month battle in Superior Court, G&A attorney John McCaslin’s and labor representative Steve Allen’s efforts prevailed against the City of Chico on behalf of our Client, Chico Police Officer’s Association. Chico POA President, Terry Moore expressed his gratitude to G&A – especially to John and Steve in ...Read More
JURY FINDS LIEUTENANT NOT GUILTY OF FELONY ASSAULT CHARGES
It took an El Dorado County jury just 45 minutes to acquit Lt. Chris Gold of two felony and two misdemeanor charges related to an off duty altercation he was involved in with his former father in law. The background of this case includes an ugly divorce and child custody ...Read More
Paul Goyette Gets Another Win in People vs. Gold
Taken from the closing arguments: “What was this case about? 1.It’s About Perception, or rather Misperception 2.It’s About Self Defense But it’s really about: What adds up and what makes sense.” We’ll elaborate in the next few days, it’s a great story with a successful win that pertains to all ...Read More
Testimonial From One of Our Return Association Clients
Hello Jennifer, Rafael and I communicated by email before the holidays. If memory serves me, we were going to give [our current representative] until after the first to respond to our request for the return of our records. To date I have not heard from them. Regarding [your poetntial associaition], We ...Read More
Mrs. Deleon's Letter to Paul
Written by the wife of Raul Deleon, following a widely publicized Federal Trial. ...Read More
FEDERAL COURT JURY ACQUITS SHERIFF’S CAPTAIN OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND FALSE STATEMENTS
A Jury of five men and seven women took less than one hour to acquit retired Captain Raul DeLeon on five counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements to a federal investigator. Mr. DeLeon’s trial was in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District, before Judge Oliver Wanger. ...Read More