San Francisco Chronicle - Fri Nov 27

In its order late Wednesday, the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento told an El Dorado County judge to provide transcripts of private testimony in which witnesses apparently accuse the lawyer, Gilbert Maines of Placerville, of loudly discussing a future book or movie deal in a country club restaurant.

Tahoe Daily Tribune - Wed Nov 25

It is unlikely, but not impossible, that witnesses who say they saw Alexander Olive alive after January 1986 were able to accurately identify the boy based solely on a photograph, according to an expert's testimony in the Ulysses Roberson murder trial this week.

Sacramento Bee - Wed Nov 25

An El Dorado County judge ruled Tuesday that Tylar Marie Witt must stand trial as an adult in her mother's killing, decrying the teen's alleged participation "in the death of the very person who gave you life." Superior Court Judge James Wagoner also ordered Witt, who was 14 when her mother was stabbed to death in their El Dorado Hills home, held ...