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		<title>Autopsy report: Russell died after being shot at least eight times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trauma of at least eight gunshot wounds assured the death of 21-year-old Marcus Russell, a coroner’s examiner testified Tuesday. “It was the totality of all the gunshot wounds put together,” said Dr. Thomas Rogers, forensic pathologist for the Alameda County Coroner’s Office. “A large amount of internal bleeding caused shock” from which Russell never...]]></description>
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		<title>Brown testifies that Richmond chief promoted alleged racist, inflaming tensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lt. Cleveland Brown testified that he never heard the Richmond police chief or deputy chief use racial slurs, but that they made remarks that were offensive to African Americans. Former Deputy Chief Lori Ritter “told me to tap dance,” Brown said from the witness stand. “That is racially offensive.” Brown is one of seven high-ranking...]]></description>
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		<title>Richmond murder victim&#8217;s mother testifies</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/02/07/richmond-murder-victims-mother-testifies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the night before his death, Marcus Russell’s nerves were uneasy, and a red minivan was lurking curbside a few blocks from his grandmother’s house, his mother testified Monday. But before Faith Russell could see who was driving the red minivan, which she said she saw several times in her neighborhood in the months leading...]]></description>
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		<title>Proposition 8 struck down in SF today</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/02/07/proposition-8-struck-down-in-sf-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Hopkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proposition 8, California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, was struck down by the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco earlier today. In a 2-1 vote, the court ruled Prop 8, which was passed in 2008, unconstitutional because it violates the civil rights of gay and lesbian couples. Richmond Confidential is continuing to follow...]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor shares Richmond&#8217;s year in review, year ahead</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/02/06/mayor-shares-richmonds-year-in-review-year-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mayor and many of the 50 or so residents who filled the Whittlesey Community Room Friday night said it countless different ways, but it all boiled down to the same thing: 2011 was a great year in Richmond. “I can’t think of a place I’d rather live right now,” said longtime resident Mike Peritz....]]></description>
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		<title>Witnesses recall red van tailing Marcus Russell in days before his murder</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/02/05/witnesses-recall-red-van-tailing-marcus-russell-in-days-before-his-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days before he was shot and killed while driving his grandmother’s Nissan Maxima on I-580, Marcus Russell was nervous about simmering neighborhood tensions and a red minivan that seemed to be following him around Richmond, Russell’s friends and family testified in Contra Costa County Court Thursday. “You know your children,” Faith Russell, Marcus’...]]></description>
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		<title>Firearm expert links ammunition at various crime scenes in Blacknell case</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/31/firearm-expert-links-ammunition-at-various-crime-scenes-in-blacknell-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gun found near Joe Blacknell III during his September 2009 capture was almost certainly the same Smith &#038; Wesson 9 mm that fired more than two dozen rounds at crime scenes in Oakland and Richmond, a firearms and ammunitions identification expert testified Monday. “It’s our conclusion that it is a practical impossibility that any...]]></description>
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		<title>Gunshot residue found on sweater of alleged Richmond shooter</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/26/gunshot-residue-found-on-sweater-of-alleged-richmond-shooter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The black-hooded sweatshirt Joe Blacknell III wore on the day he allegedly shot four people and missed two others had minute traces of gunshot residue on it, but not enough to definitively conclude that he fired a gun, a Los Angeles County criminalist testified Wednesday at Contra Costa Superior Court in Martinez. Blacknell is an...]]></description>
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		<title>Eyewitness struggles to recall Blacknell at scene of carjacking in Richmond case</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/25/eyewitness-struggles-to-recall-blacknell-at-scene-of-carjacking-in-richmond-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One witness didn’t show, two were several hours late, and the most pivotal one had a foggy memory. On the fifth day of testimony in one of the most anticipated criminal cases coming out of Richmond in recent years, the prosecution slogged through a series of unwanted developments and uncooperative witnesses. “So you’re saying all...]]></description>
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		<title>Witness describes near-fatal gunshot wounds in Richmond, can&#8217;t identify attacker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two witnesses took the stand Monday to talk about being the victims of violent crimes, but neither implicated the man prosecutors say was the perpetrator. “How did that feel, being shot,” Deputy District Attorney Derek Butts asked one witness, a 32-year-old man Richmond Police have said is a central Richmond gang member. “I didn’t feel...]]></description>
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