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Justice Reporter at CalMatters

@CalMatters justice reporter | Moving to https://t.co/XZgHlrGDqs

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  • California Gov. Newsom asks President Trump to withdraw troops from Los Angeles as protests intensify

    2 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | Nigel Duara |Jeanne Kuang |Sergio Olmos

    This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hundreds of California National Guard soldiers are deployed in downtown Los Angeles in an escalation of the Trump administration’s rolling immigration enforcement action throughout Southern California. Their deployment comes over the objections of California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who say that local law enforcement agencies are more than capable of keeping the peace in the city.

  • Gavin Newsom asks Trump to withdraw troops from Los Angeles as protests intensify

    2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nigel Duara |Jeanne Kuang |Sergio Olmos

    National Guard soldiers stand in front of the federal building in downtown Los Angeles, on June 8, 2025. President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 troops to handle escalating protests against immigration enforcement raids in the Los Angeles area, a move the state's governor termed "purposefully inflammatory." (Photo by Frederic J. Brown, AFP via Getty Images)This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.

  • California gave accomplices to killings a second chance. How a new case tested the law

    3 weeks ago | localnewsmatters.org | Nigel Duara

    HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CONVICTED of murder in California didn’t kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a getaway car or kicked down a door in a robbery that ended in murder  — and the state used to allow prosecutors to charge accomplices with first-degree felony murder. That changed in 2018, when California legislators required a higher standard for an accomplice’s murder conviction.

  • He didn't pull the trigger. California Supreme Court sides with accomplice in felony murder case

    3 weeks ago | bakersfield.com | Nigel Duara

  • He didn’t pull the trigger. California Supreme Court sides with accomplice in felony murder case

    3 weeks ago | apnews.com | Nigel Duara

    By  NIGEL DUARA/CalMatters Hundreds of people convicted of murder in California didn’t kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a getaway car or kicked down a door in a robbery that ended in murder — and the state used to allow prosecutors to charge accomplices with first-degree felony murder. That changed in 2018, when California legislators required a higher standard for an accomplice’s murder conviction.

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