Hearing focuses on medical records

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND — Attorneys in a Davis homicide case sparred Tuesday over the potential release of the defendant’s jailhouse medical records, but a Yolo Superior Court judge tabled the issue pending the resolution of ongoing competency proceedings.

The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office subpoenaed Carlos Reales Dominguez’s records, including mentalhealth documents, late last month after Dominguez’s public defender expressed doubts regarding his state of mind.

“It is my firm opinion that my client is not mentally compe- tent,” Deputy Public Defender Dan Hutchinson said during a May 22 hearing, prompting Judge Samuel McAdam to suspend Dominguez’s criminal proceedings and order him to undergo a psychiatric assessment.

Dominguez, a 21-year-old former UC Davis student, stands accused of fatally

Newsom looks to file charges against DeSantis

By Nigel Duara, Anabel Sosa and Jeanne Kuang CalMatters

There are lots of thorny legal problems with filing kidnapping charges against a rival governor, but the most important one is simple: Proving that the chief executive of the other state is, in fact, responsible for luring migrants onto a plane under false pretenses.

But Gov. Gavin Newsom, on Twitter, is threatening to do just that after two recent flights delivered 36 people to Sacramento. The first flight arrived Saturday and a second arrived on Monday morning.

stabbing two people and attacking a third during a week-long crime spree in late April and early May.

Deputy District Attorney Matthew De Moura sought the medical records in order to prepare for a potential competency trial. Hutchinson responded

DHS grad running for supervisor

Enterprise staff

Antonio De Loera-Brust announced his candidacy for Yolo County Supervisor for District 4 on May 12. The primary election will be in March of 2024.

De Loera-Brust grew up in Davis, attending César Chávez Elementary and Harper Junior High, and graduated from Davis High School in the Class of 2013. He was a 2013 recipient of a Thong Hy Huynh memorial award from the city of Davis for his advocacy on behalf of minority students at Davis High School. He is a 2017 graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and ran the afterschool program at the Madison Migrant Farmworker

Center on Highway 16 from 2013-2017 on behalf of the Yolo Interfaith Immigration Network.

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“I’m proud to have grown up in Davis,” he said in a statement “This is where my family found our American Dream. Thanks to my immigrant parents’ hard work and the support of Davis’ community, I have had extraordinary opportunities in national politics and government. But no matter how far I’ve gone,

I’ve never forgotten where I came from. I’ve seen firsthand the poverty, hunger, prejudice, and inequality that too many in our community experience, and I’ve always tried to do something about it.”

Since graduation, he has worked as a staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman Joaquin Castro and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as a policy advisor on the presidential campaigns of Secretary Julian Castro and Senator Elizabeth Warren, and most recently served in government as a political appointee of the Biden-Harris administration in the role

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Though neither flight originated in Florida, California’s governor put the blame squarely on the Sunshine State, as he did last year when planeloads of migrants were flown into Sacramento and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

“You small, pathetic man,” Newsom tweeted at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday morning. “This isn’t Martha’s Vineyard. Kidnapping charges?”

Newsom then linked to the California criminal code statute on

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