June 15, 2023  Oakland – Delonzo Logwood entered a plea today in Alameda Superior Court of no contest to voluntary manslaughter and a firearm enhancement, for a total of 12 years in state prison. A plea of no contest still results in a guilty finding by the Judge.  Mr. Logwood also had been charged in the 2008 murders of Richard Carter and Zaire Washington but Alameda Superior Court Judge Mark McCannon granted a motion to dismiss those two counts last month. Mr. Logwood continued to face one count of the murder of Ford until today’s hearing.  Judge McCannon accepted the no contest plea but will not indicate whether he will approve the sentencing until July 13, 2023. Mr. Logwood, who has maintained his innocence since he was charged in 2015, has been incarcerated in Santa Rita County Jail for eight years.   ## Contact: Communications…

June 21, 2023  Oakland -- A three-day preliminary hearing concluded Wednesday with Judge Clifford Blakely’s decision that there is enough evidence to try Phong Tran, an Oakland Police Department homicide detective, on a string of charges, including bribery and perjury.  Tran, a veteran officer, was arrested and charged with two felony counts of perjury under oath, as well as felony subornation of perjury under oath, one count of felony bribery of a witness and attempted bribery of a witness.   The original charges are connected to the murder investigation of Charles Butler, who was shot and killed in 2011, but prosecutors introduced evidence of a pattern of bribery and coercion spanning a decade. Judge Blakely admitted evidence from other investigations that established Tran’s pattern of behavior. Prosecutors detailed strikingly similar allegations, including fraudulent identification of suspects in exchange for cash payments and eliciting false testimony leveraging…