MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The city of Mountain View is jumping into the medical marijuana debate tomorrow.
City council members will vote on whether to pass a 45-day moratorium
on new medical marijuana dispensaries -- to give them more time to
craft an ordinance regulating medical marijuana in Mountain View.
Dozens of dispensaries have opened up across Silicon Valley in
the past six months -- all without the blessing of local government.
Gilroy, Los Gatos, Los Altos and Saratoga have passed temporary
or permanent bans on dispensaries, which are stuck in a legal gray
area, between state and federal law.
Mountain View says it's being forced to take the vote tomorrow
-- after a handful of dispensaries took out applications to open in the
city in recent months.
EAST PALO ALTO -- A convicted cop killer from East Palo Alto will be sentenced this morning.
Alberto Alvarez faces two paths -- either the death penalty, or life in prison without parole.
Judge Craig Parsons will make the decision today, several
months after a jury convicted the 26-year-old of first-degree murder,
and recommended the death penalty in the case.
Alvarez is a former gang member who shot and killed East Palo Alto police officer Richard May in early 2006.
His lawyers have argued for leniency, saying Alvarez was the product of a chaotic home.
It's been nearly 6 years since a judge in San Mateo County has
sentenced someone to death, the most recent being Scott Peterson.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The city of Mountain View is jumping into the medical marijuana debate tomorrow.
EAST PALO ALTO -- A convicted cop killer from East Palo Alto will be sentenced this morning.
