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X false false false false false false false false false Kent Scheidegger Legal Director 150000 2220 6358 158578 Mike Rushford President 150000 2220 152220 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 1a There were 9 voting members of the board during the year. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Director reviews 990 prior to filing Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c This organization has few outside contractors therefore, they are able to review all new contracts as they may enter into it, to be assured it is not with an entity that any of their Board or employees have an interest in. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a At least annually, the Board reviews salaries and benefits paid to all employees (including officers and key employees), and votes on bonuses or salary increases accordingly. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b At least annually, the Board reviews salaries and benefits paid to all employees (including officers and key employees), and votes on bonuses or salary increases accordingly. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents, policies and financial statements may be viewed upon request at the Foundation's office located at 2131 L Street, Sacramento, California. Statement Note 1 BOXSCORE:CJLF v CDCR: 7/28/2025. Unanimous California Third District Court of Appeal decision striking down Governor Gavin Newsom's effort to grant early parole to convicted murderers. The Court held that state law does not authorize the early parole of murderers servicing indeterminate sentences in the state prison, partly invalidating regulations adopted by corrections officials which had allowed the release of convicted murders years before they had served the minimum term of 15 or 25years to life in prison. The lawsuit, brought by CJLF on behalf of the families of murder victims, argued that the CDCR overstepped its authority by allowing the state's most violent criminals to apply credits for good behavior (called "good time" credits) to reduce their minimum terms. The Court's decision upheld, in large part, the December 13, 2023 Sacramento Superior Court ruling which endorsed the CJLF position that the state did not have the authority to grant early releases to violent criminals serving indeterminate sentences. The Superior Court also issued a writ of mandate ordering the state to stop the early releases, which remains in force. WINRIVERS v GUERRERO: 6/12/2025. U.S. Supreme Court decision unanimously rejecting the claim by a serial child molester that he was entitled to successive challenges to his conviction and sentence even though a federal law allows just one, with only narrow exceptions. Activist federal judges have evaded this law since Congress passed it in 1996, in order to repeatedly review claims of trial or sentencing error having absolutely nothing to do with the criminal's guilt or innocence. In Danny Rivers' case, he was found guilty of molesting his daughter and stepdaughter hundreds of times over a four-year period. Both girls were nine years old when this started. A Texas jury sentenced him to 38years in prison for these crimes. Years later after Rivers' final appeal, in the form of a habeas corpus petition, was rejected by a federal judge, he waited another four years to request that the judge allow him to amend it and add new claims. Both the judge and the Court of appeals turned him down, citing the limit under federal law. Because other federal courts had skirted these limits in similar cases, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Rivers' appeal. CJLF joined the case to argue that the limit on repeated petitions applies to requests to amend a petition that has already been rejected. This limit has only narrow exceptions that Rivers did not qualify for. The Court's decision followed that argument. WINGLOSSIP v OKLAHOMA: 2/25/2025. U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a convicted murderer's claim that "new evidence" invalidates his conviction. CJLF had joined the case to urge the Court to reject the murderer's claim and uphold his conviction and death sentence. In 1997, Richard Glossip hired a handyman to kill the owner of the motel he managed. He was convicted on a mountain of evidence, including the handyman's confession. The new evidence is that the handyman had been treated with lithium, a medication for bipolar disorder, something that Glossip's defense attorneys knew but chose not to introduce because it would have supported the fact that Glossip had manipulated the handyman. This evidence was actually included in Glossip's own appeal in 1998. CJLF argued that the state's highest court had already reviewed and dismissed the new evidence as both irrelevant and procedurally barred, and that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction to hear Glossip's claims. A majority voted to overturn the conviction and ordered Oklahoma to give the murderer a new trial. LOSSCITY OF GRANTS PASS v JOHNSON: 6/28/2024. U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Oregon City of Grants Pass's challenge to a federal judge's ruling to strike down local ordinances prohibiting camping on public property. In July 2023, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit upheld the judge's order, citing its 2019 ruling in Martin v City of Boise. That ruling announced, in effect, that the homeless had an Eighth Amendment right to camp on public property anytime a city had fewer shelter beds than its homeless population. The ruling covered the nine western states in the Ninth Circuit: Alaska, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, California, Arizona and Hawaii. On January 12, 2024, after the high Court agreed to hear the Grants Pass appeal, CJLF joined the case to argue that the Eighth Amendment was adopted to bar the cruel and unusual punishment of convicted criminals, which has nothing to do with cities and counties enforcing municipal ordinances to regulate camping on public land. The CJLF's brief also noted that no other federal circuit had discovered this right. The decision to overturn the Ninth Circuit has restored local and state authority to remove homeless camps from public property. WINSMITH v ARIZONA: 6/21/2024. U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a drug dealer's claim that his conviction was unconstitutional. In 2011, Jason Smith was convicted of possession of marijuana and methamphetamine for sale. Prior to trial, testing at the state crime lab confirmed that the drugs in Smith's possession were marijuana and methamphetamine. When the trial began, the lab analysts who did the testing no longer worked at the lab, so, relying on the original lab notes, another analyst testified on the testing process and the findings. Smith claimed that this long-established process regarding the introduction of forensic evidence violated his constitutional right to confront the original analyst. The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the testimony on the theory that the notes were not introduced for their truth. After the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Smith's appeal, CJLF joined the case to argue that the term "witness" as understood when the Confrontation Clause was adopted does not extend so far as to cover the author of the lab notes. The expert who testified was the witness for the purpose of the Sixth Amendment, and the defendant's right to confront him was honored. The high court rejected the state appeals court's "for the truth" theory and sent the case back to the state court for reconsideration. DRAWPEOPLE v HARDIN: 3/04/2024. California Supreme Court decision rejecting a murderer's claim that he had constitutional right to early release from his life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) sentence. The high Court utilized CJLF arguments in its decision which held that while several recently enacted state laws to make convicted murderers eligible for parole years earlier than their sentences prescribe, murderers over the age of 18 who are sentenced to LWOP are specifically excluded. The crime of conviction and adult v. juvenile status are sufficient grounds to treat criminals differently. Hardin was convicted in 1990 of the brutal robbery and murder of an elderly woman who had befriended him. Thanks to this decision, he and others like him will never see the outside of prison. WIN