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UAW-affiliated grad students protest regents meeting
Carlos Reales Dominguez, charged with fatally stabbing two men in Davis and wounding a third victim, appears at Yolo Superior Court on Monday in Woodland, where a jury will determine whether he is mentally competent to stand trial.
By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
competence is restored. If deemed competent, his currently suspended criminal proceedings would resume. "Carlos Dominguez is severely mentally ill," public defender Dan Hutchinson said in his opening statement, telling jurors they’ll hear testimony from the mental-health
Hundreds of University of California graduate academic workers with United Auto Workers 2865 and 5810 rallied outside the UC regents’ meeting at UC San Francisco’s Rutter Center on Wednesday, July 19, to protest what they say is “UC’s ongoing failure to implement collective bargaining agreements and their heavy-handed retaliation against workers who speak up.” Carloads of UC Davis students participated in the day’s demonstrations, which included a speech by the head steward of UAW 2865, Emily Weintraut, a postdoc in food science at UC Davis, who delivered the message calling on UC to implement contracts signed last December. According to Weintraut, workers filed wage claims and have not gotten raises or the appointments they’re entitled to. “And it varies by worker. It varies by department. It varies by campus. It’s a big issue, and it's one of the many ways UC is not implementing our contracts right now,” she said. Since this is related to UC-wide bargaining, UCD suggested communication with UC Office of the
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Testimony begins in Dominguez trial By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — Does Carlos Reales Dominguez suffer from severe mental illness, or is the Davis double-homicide defendant just gaming the legal system? Attorneys offered the dueling theories Tuesday to a Yolo County jury charged with
deciding whether the former UC Davis student is competent to stand trial on murder and attempted-murder charges. Dominguez, 21, stands accused of fatally stabbing Davis’ “Compassion Guy” David Breaux and UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm, and critically wounding unhoused woman Kimberlee Guillory, in late April and early May.
At issue: whether Dominguez is able to understand the nature and purpose of the court proceedings, can assist his attorney in preparing his defense in a rational manner, and whether he understands his status in the criminal proceedings. If found incompetent, Dominguez would undergo treatment at a state mentalhealth facility until his
Community college transfers lag behind goals By Adam Echelman and Erica Yee CalMatters The community college system is falling short of one of its most important benchmarks: the number of students who transfer to a four-year college or university. It remains well below the system’s own goal, and lawmakers have taken notice. “Although most students intend to transfer to a fouryear university, few do,” wrote a group of state legislators this year as they asked the state to audit community college performance. Set in 2017, the goal was to increase the annual
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number of community college students who transfer to the University of California and California State University from nearly 89,000 to more than 120,000 by 2022. In the 2020-21 academic year, the most recent data available, nearly 99,000 community college students transferred to a UC or Cal State. The Community College Chancellor’s Office responded to questions regarding the transfer goal by forwarding a letter that former interim Chancellor Daisy Gonzales wrote to legislators in March as part of an internal negotiation regarding the audit. In it,
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