Another Illegal habitual criminal protected from deportation by San Francisco's sanctuary policy has been charged with the attempted murder of a man in Daly City. A San Francisco Chronicle story by Jaxon Van Derbeken reports that Mexican national Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun, who had two priors for gang related assaults, was on probation when he and two fellow gang members attacked the victim, beating him with a broom handle until it broke. Uc-Cahun then slashed the mans stomach twice with a two inch blade, causing his intestines to protrude from the wounds. From within jail, "Uc-Cahun allegedly wrote a letter to a friend that provided the name and address of the victim and suggesting that the friend 'take care of things,' [San Mateo Deputy DA Steve] Wagstaffe said." Last month Salvadorian national Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant with prior arrests for gang related crimes, was charged with murdering a father and his two sons as they drove down a San Francisco street, reportedly because he mistook them for members of a rival gang.

Court Adopts Parole Authority As reported below in Kent Scheidegger's post, a divided California Supreme Court has ruled that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wrongly denied parole to a life-sentenced murderer who shot and stabbed her boyfriend's wife to death in 1983. An AP story by Paul Elias writes that the Court's 4-3 holding in In re Sandra Davis Lawrence, Chief Justice George concluded that some evidence of future dangerousness other than the circumstances of the crime itself must be presented in order to justify a denial of parole. The ruling seems to clear the way for criminals to launch legal challenges to was previously an executive branch decision.