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Angel Turner still hopes to find justice in the 1997 slaying of her sister, Georgia Leah Moses. Moses—who would've turned 36 this year—was last seen alive at age 12, not far from her Santa Rosa, Calif. home; her strangled, decomposed body was found about a week later in a grove of trees off Highway 101 near Petaluma. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office released a sketch of a man Moses was believed to be last seen with, but he was never identified and police never named a person of interest in the case.
WASHINGTON — East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell has become a household name known for his criticism of Donald Trump on cable television, via Twitter and during the former president's two impeachments. But after the second trial's end, he says he's ready to reach across the aisle.
"It's a new chapter personally for me, and I think the end of an accountability chapter for Donald Trump and Congress," Swalwell said in an interview.
WASHINGTON — Representative Eric Swalwell approaches his impeachment manager duties as both an experienced prosecutor and a vocal critic of President Trump over the past several years.
After graduating from law school, Mr. Swalwell spent seven years in the district attorney's office in Alameda County, Calif., and was the office's lead prosecutor on hate crimes.
As the angry mob of President Trump's supporters pushed and pounded on the doors of the House of Representatives Chamber, intent on stopping the certification of the election, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin, tore off his suit coat and girded for the chambers to be invaded.
With Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Swalwell was one of the last members of Congress to leave the House floor, sticking around to make sure everyone was out and yelling directions to panicked people in the gallery above as sergeants at arms piled furniture against the doors.
It's been more than two years since I first called for a ban and national mandatory buyback of all military-style assault weapons, and the body count has only continued to rise since then.