A battery charge has been dropped against a transgender teenager in the East Bay who was defending herself in a schoolyard fight last year, advocates said this week. Jewlyes Gutierrez, 16, expressed relief upon learning that Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Maddock dismissed the charge May 1. “I finally have the chance to relax,” said Gutierrez, a sophomore at Hercules Middle/High School, relieved that the weight that has been upon her for the past five months has […]
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