Government,
Criminal
Jan. 7, 2021
Mendocino DA papers judge over animal cruelty, gun rulings
In a memo sent to all prosecutors in his office Monday, District Attorney Charles D. Eyster. He said it’s now office policy to file peremptory challenges under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 170.6 to “disqualify and prevent Judge Clayton Brennan from hearing all criminal cases that fit the legal parameters outlined above.”
Mendocino County District Attorney Charles D. Eyster is seeking to disqualify a superior court judge from presiding over cases involving animal cruelty and gun use allegations after the judge reduced a woman's felony conviction for shooting her dog multiple times to a misdemeanor with no jail time.
In a memo sent to all prosecutors in his office Monday, Eyster said it's now office policy to file peremptory challenges under Californi...
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