December 4, 2023 Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price Charges Attempted Murder in Family Party Incident Oakland - The Office of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced it has charged Leandro Angelo Torres with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.  The defendant is accused of accelerating his car into four women after disrupting a family party. Torres, 31, faces up to 12 years in state prison if convicted of the alleged charges in the complaint. The facts, as we understand them, involve a dispute during a family gathering in San Lorenzo. According to Alameda County Sheriff's Office investigators, on November 25, 2023, Leandro Torres was asked to leave the family party. He later returned and allegedly attacked his brother’s car. He then allegedly drove his vehicle towards four women standing in the street, one of whom was pinned between Torres’ car and…

December 2, 2023 Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price Reaffirms Her Commitment To The First Amendment –Allows Emilie Raguso To Attend Press Conferences  Oakland - Berkeley Scanner Editor-in-Chief Emilie Raguso is welcome to attend future press conferences organized by the office of the Alameda County District Attorney. At the time of the DA’s press conference on November 29, 2023, her media credentials were under review. During several transitions of the DAO communications staff over the summer, the DAO media list was modified and reduced to a limited number of news outlets. Miss Raguso, among others, including the Bay City News Group, was not included in the updated media list, an oversight now being corrected. District Attorney Pamela Price has a long and distinguished career that includes defending the First Amendment (see Freitag v. Ayers, 468 F.3d 528 (9th Cir. 2006), 127 S.Ct. 1918 (2007); Davis…