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FREE SPEECHAs a general rule, court proceedings are open to the public – the documents and the hearings are available to anyone. There are certain types of cases (such as juvenile crime) which are held out of public view. Parties may also petition the court to keep files under seal, meaning …

The criminal justice system can move slowly. The case of The People of the State of California v. Juan Govea, filed Jan. 9, 2017, at first was no different. Govea, then 35, was arrested in December 2016 on felony charges of sex with a minor, a girl who was 17 at the time. He’d recently finis…

author James S. Gordon. “Rather, it’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” Lucky for you, Aries! Your willpower is even more potent than usual right now, and your willingness to change is growing stronger. And so very soon now, I expect you will reach the threshold that …