Author: Clint Curry

Clint Curry is a career prosecutor, and is currently serving as the elected District Attorney of Yuba County. His experience includes work at nearly every level of government, having clerked for U.S. District Court Judge James K. Singleton, and spent time in the Netherlands helping to prosecute war criminals before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Prior to law school, Clint served as a Captain in the United States Army. He was born and raised in Yuba-Sutter and is a graduate of UC Davis School of Law.

EXCLUSIVE: Child Rapist Benefits from California’s Criminal Justice ‘Reform’

October 9, 2023 2:30 amOctober 9, 2023 7:02 pm

On January 11, 2013, a Yuba County jury found Dwight Anthony Summers guilty of giving a teenage boy crack cocaine and then forcibly sodomizing him. Summers, who had a felony criminal record spanning multiple states and three decades, was sentenced...

Common Sense Public Safety: Why California’s Three Strikes Law Remains a Necessary Tool

July 11, 2022 2:30 amJuly 12, 2022 9:43 am

On June 29, 2022, Yuba County Superior Court Judge Benjamin Wirtschafter sentenced Justin Coats under California’s Three Strikes law to 25 years to Life in prison. I want you to know the story behind this sentence. I want you to...