News for Joseph Tully

Having sex on an airplane or joining the Mile High Club is a definite must-try fantasy for people who get off on public sex. According to a 2011 Skyscanner survey of over 1,000 travelers, 95 percent of people surveyed said they want to join the Mile High Club, yet only 20 percent have actually given it a try. I get it. Plane rides can be boring. International ones are even worse. What better way to pass the time than to get it on over 30,000 feet in the air? Then again, is having sex on a plane...

Yolo County’s vast agricultural landscape is shifting once again with a new-found purpose — growing medicine.
With a sign marked “medical grow” posted on a fence encompassing more than 400 marijuana plants, John Wright opened the gates, explaining his new mission to grow medicine for those in need.
“It is a pretty exciting thing that we’re starting,” Wright said during a workgroup meeting last week.
Recently, Wright welcomed farmers,...

The murder case against a Shingletown man who has been in Shasta County Jail for more than a year was suspended on Monday after his defense attorney questioned his mental competency.
Michael Donald Ackley, 56, faced trial on Sept. 15, but that was on hold pending his evaluation by two psychologists. Attorney Jospeh Tully questioned Ackley’s mental competency and his ability to assist him in his defense at a settlement conference on Monday. He’ll be back in Superior Court on...

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
–1 John 4:20
I like to listen to the radio when I work in the garage. Where I live the station that comes in best is News Talk 99.3 KQMS out of Redding. In my opinion it’s a cavalcade of lies and insanity that features 12 hours of back-to-back Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and...

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
--1 John 4:20
I like to listen to the radio when I work in the garage. Where I live the station that comes in best is News Talk 99.3 KQMS out of Redding. In my opinion it’s a cavalcade of lies and insanity that features 12 hours of back-to-back Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and...

After only two hours of deliberations, a Shasta County jury on Friday acquitted the mother and daughter who owned the Planet Herb medical collective in Redding of illegally manufacturing concentrated cannabis.
The jury got the case shortly before noon after attorneys delivered their closing arguments. It reached its not-guilty verdicts around 3:30 p.m.
Juror Roy Toal, 59, of Redding said after court Friday afternoon that the prosecution's case against Linda Kay Silvey, 56, of Shasta...

Sometimes, I wonder what the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and the Shasta County Sheriff's Office have been smoking. Wasn't it just six months ago they were telling voters that Measure A, by totally banning all outdoor medical marijuana cultivation in the county's unincorporated areas, would make it easier to enforce the law, even though it contained no funding mechanism?
Well, apparently their short-term memory has returned.
“The ordinance itself does make it easier to...

A mother and daughter busted for allegedly operating an illegal medical marijuana collective in Redding will have to again stand trial on a number of marijuana-related charges after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the case on Tuesday.
Following nearly two days of deliberation, the 12-person jury informed Shasta County Superior Court Judge Bradley Boeckman Tuesday afternoon that it failed to reach a consensus on all but one count, returning a not-guilty verdict for each of the former...

A Contra Costa jury found an Antioch man not guilty of two felonies related to a shooting on his driveway with a gun he claimed he was carrying to protect his wife and his home.
Rhainell Madrona, 57, whose home and property had been repeatedly vandalized, fired his weapon in front of his Pine Street residence at around 11 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2012, grazing a 15-year-old boy whom Madrona said was brandishing a garbage tote above his head. Two other 15-year-old boys were in the vicinity at the...

A jury has found an Antioch gun owner not guilty in a landmark “Stand Your Ground” case happening exactly eight months to the day after George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Florida.
In the Contra Costa County case, the homeowner wounded a 15-year-old boy who was reportedly trespassing on the man’s driveway in October of 2012.
Friday, a jury in Martinez acquitted Rhainell Madrona, 57, of felony charges of assault with a firearm and negligent discharge...