PEOPLE IN BUSINESS: KONRAD MOORE
KONRAD MOORE has been appointed Kern County Public Defender. He had worked as interim public defender since the death of his predecessor, Art Titus, in October. Moore supervises a staff of 62 lawyers handling more than 35,000 cases a year. He joined the Public Defender’s Office in 2000 and become Chief Deputy Public Defender in 2008, taking over as Chief Assistant in 2011. Before coming to Kern, he spent a year in private price. He served six years as a deputy district attorney, first in Stanislaus County prosecuting jury trials, then in Monterey County prosecuting juvenile gang offenses. He earned his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from UC Berkeley and a Certified Public Accountant license.
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About two dozen protesters stood in front of Kern County Superior Court next to the Liberty Bell Thursday morning to make a statement about police brutality.
The death of a man in custody following a prolonged struggle with Kern County Sheriff's deputies and CHP officers and the subsequent fracas over confiscated witness cellphones have gained international attention and raised concerns here that the incidents could tarnish the county's emerging...
Sheriff’s investigators served a search warrant on Kern Medical Center and the Mary K. Shell Mental Health Center seeking medical records to find possible reasons for David Sal Silva’s behavior prior to and during his encounter with law enforcement, The Californian learned Friday.
The Kern County Sheriff's Office is out of control. That's one conclusion many people will draw based on the events of the past two weeks and in the context of recent years.
Blood stains are still visible on the sidewalk at the corner of Flower Street and Palm Drive, where a Bakersfield man struggled with as many as nine officers and later died this week.
Responding to what he called a case that “has consumed the media and our community,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Tuesday he has asked the FBI to conduct a “parallel” investigation into the death of Bakersfield father of four David Sal Silva, who died May 8 after he was beaten by deputies.
Classes were canceled at Bakersfield High School Monday after three small bottle bomb explosions struck campus, authorities said.
Two cellphones confiscated last week from witnesses to the in-custody death of David Sal Silva were returned Wednesday to the attorney representing the witnesses.