Terence Hallinan was an American attorney and politician from San Francisco,California. He was the second of six sons born to Progressive Party presidential candidate Vincent Hallinan and his wife,Vivian (Moore) Hallinan. Hallinan was educated at the London School of Economics,University of California,Berkeley,and University of California,Hastings College of the Law. He practiced privately in San Francisco.
Stephen Lawrence Cooley is an American politician and prosecutor. He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012. Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008.
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history,as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party,she was previously attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021.
Eddie Jack Jordan Jr. is an American attorney who served as the district attorney for Orleans Parish,Louisiana,from 2003 until his resignation in 2007. A member of the Democratic Party,Jordan was the first African American to have held the elected position. He announced his resignation on October 30,2007,when a court rendered a large judgment against his office on behalf of white employees that the D.A. had earlier dismissed on account of their race.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) is a law enforcement agency serving Alameda County,California. ACSO is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA),the American Correctional Association (ACA),National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and the California Medical Association (CMA).
Anthony Joseph Rackauckas Jr. is a former District Attorney of Orange County,California and a former Superior Court judge.
Chesa Boudin is an American lawyer who served as the 29th District Attorney of San Francisco from January 8,2020 to July 8,2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland,California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco,BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station. BART officer Anthony Pirone kneed Grant in the head and forced Grant to lie face down on the platform. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland and pronounced dead later that day. The events were captured on bystanders’mobile phones. Owners disseminated their footage to media outlets and to various websites where it went viral. Both protests and riots took place in the following days.
John Leonard Burris is an American civil rights attorney,based in Oakland,California,known for his work in police brutality cases representing plaintiffs. The John Burris law firm practices employment,criminal defense,DUI,personal injury,and landlord tenant law.
Cyrus Roberts Vance Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the District Attorney of New York County,New York,also known as the Manhattan District Attorney. He was previously a principal partner at the law firm of Morvillo,Abramowitz,Grand,Iason,Anello,&Bohrer,P.C. He is the son of Cyrus Vance Sr.,former Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. Vance did not seek reelection as District Attorney in the 2021 election,and was succeeded by Alvin Bragg. He is currently a partner at Baker McKenzie.
M. Gerald Schwartzbach is an American criminal defense attorney.
The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is a law enforcement agency responsible for policing the city of Oakland,California,United States. As of May 2021,the department employed 709 sworn officers and 371 civilian employees. The department is divided into 5 geographical divisions policing Oakland's 78 square miles and population of 420,000. The OPD receives 550,000 annual calls for service,and responds to over 250,000 law enforcement incidents.
Jacquelyn Phillips Lacey is an American politician who served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County from December 3,2012 to December 7,2020. Lacey Was the first woman,and first African-American,to serve as LA District Attorney since the office was created in 1850.
The California Innocence Project is a non-profit based at California Western School of Law in San Diego,California,United States,which provides pro bono legal services to individuals who maintain their factual innocence of crime(s) for which they have been convicted. It is an independent chapter of the Innocence Project. Its mission is to exonerate wrongly convicted inmates through the use of DNA and other evidences.
Marian T. Ryan is the District Attorney (DA) of Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. She was the Commonwealth's only female District Attorney from 2013 to 2018. As of 2012,she is one of two,including Andrea Harrington,Berkshire County DA. She is a Democrat.
Nancy O'Malley was the district attorney for Alameda County,California.
Darcel Denise Clark is an American attorney and prosecutor who has served as the Bronx County District Attorney since 2016. Clark is the first woman to hold that office,and the first woman of color to serve as a district attorney in the history of the State of New York.
Diana Becton,also known as Diana Becton Smith is a former trial judge and is currently both the first woman and first African American to be elected district attorney in the history of Contra Costa County in California.
Birgit Fladager is the former District Attorney of Stanislaus County,California. She was elected in June,2006 and re-elected in 2010 and 2014. In each of those years,she got more than 50% of the vote in the primary election. She did not achieve this in 2018 and so ran against Deputy District Attorney John R. Mayne in the general election. She won that election and continued to be in office as of 2020.
In late May and early June 2020,two ambush-style attacks occurred against security personnel and law enforcement officers in California. The attacks left two dead and injured three others.
