Email Author NICK SCHOU

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Don't Start a Riot"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 20, 2010

  "Will This Pot Case Get Weeded Out?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Crash First..."

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 19, 2010

  "Murder? Are You Crazy?"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published November 21, 2007

  "Just a Random Female"

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2011 Stories by NICK SCHOU

• Kevin Taylor: The Missing Defendant in the Chamberlain Murder

  published October 27, 2011

  Has justice been served now that five former Theo Lacy Jail inmates will likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars for the Oct. 5, 2006,... More >>

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  [UPDATED W/Courtroom Drama] John Chamberlain Murder Trial Verdict: All Five Defendants Guilty of Second-Degree Murder

  published Oct 26, 2011

  UPDATED, Oct. 26 11:42 P.M.: You could see it in the faces of the five handcuffed men as they were led into Judge James Stotler's courtroom shortly after 5:30 p.m last night. Just over 24 hours earlie... More >>

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  [UPDATED W/Official Rand Corp. Retraction] Closing Marijuana Dispensaries Actually Increases Crime, Rand Study Finds

  published Oct 25, 2011

  UPDATED Oct. 25, 11:30 A.M: Two weeks after lifting the report from its website, Rand Corporation, the research organization that helped crunch body count numbers during the Vietnam War has officially... More >>

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  [UPDATED W/PHOTOS] John Chamberlain Murder Trial: Jurors Reject First Degree Murder

  published Oct 24, 2011

  UPDATE, OCT 24, 6:10 P.M.: The jury in the case of five Theo Lacy Jail inmates accused of murdering John Chamberlain, the software engineer they suspected of being a child molester, may be hopelessly ... More >>

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  [UPDATED W/CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL'S REACTION] Obama Administration Memo Spells End of Medical Marijuana Industryr

  published Oct 21, 2011

  UPDATE, Oct. 21, 11:00 A.M. Ever since four U.S. attorneys in California announced their planned crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, cannabis rights activists have been asking ... More >>

• Kenji Gallo, Profiled in OC Weekly, Subject of Upcoming Fox Gangster Seriesr

  published Oct 20, 2011

  You may remember Kenji Gallo, co-author with Matthew Randazzo V of the 2009 book Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, from my Sept. 2009 cover story in OC Weekly, "Blown Away." That p... More >>

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  [UPDATED W/CITY COUNCIL PROTEST] Yousef Ibrahim, Lake Forest Marijuana Clubs Landlord, Faces Federal Foreclosure

  published Oct 19, 2011

  UPDATE, OCT. 19, 1 P.M.: More than 100 medical marijuana patients and activists protested Lake Forest's cannabis crackdown at city hall last night, according to a story in today's Orange County Regist... More >>

• California Medical Association Calls For Marijuana Legalization

  published Oct 17, 2011

  Finally, some not-completely-terrible news from the front lines of America's escalating war on weed: the California Medical Assocation (CMA), which represents 35,000 doctors throughout the state, has ... More >>

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  Marijuana War Alive And Well In Dana Point

  published Oct 14, 2011

  Despite this week's news that the federal government is declaring war on medical marijuana dispensaries, an attorney for one such operation that was shuttered by Dana Point officials in March 2011 say... More >>

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  Obama Administration Threatens to Prosecute Media For Marijuana Ads

  published Oct 12, 2011

  Anybody know what the hell is going on with Barack ObamarYou know, the guy who admitted before becoming president that he was a college stoner and whose Justice Department initially acted like that it... More >>

• WeedMaps, California's Biggest Marijuana Website, Is "Winning" Y'all!

  published Oct 11, 2011

  Way to go, WeedMaps! Just a day before President Barack Obama pretty much officially declares war on medical marijuana in California, the state's premiere pot-related website has to brag to the world ... More >>

• [UPDATED WITH CITY'S NEAR CLUELESS REACTION] Long Beach Pot Ordinance Ruled Illegal: Cannabis Activists Winningr

  published Oct 07, 2011

  UPDATE, OCT. 7, 12 P.M.: Long Beach city officials are scratching their heads about how to respond to an appeal court decision that appears to overturn the city's medical marijuana ordinance. Accordin... More >>

• Andrew Urdiales, Serial Killer, Extradited to OC For Killing Saddleback College Student Robbin Brandley

  published Oct 04, 2011

  More than 25 years after he allegedly stabbed Saddleback College drama student Robbin Brandley 41 times in an unlit campus parking lot, Andrew Urdiales is finally on his way to Orange County to face t... More >>

• Is WeedPals The New Face(book) Of Medical Marijuanar

  published Oct 03, 2011

  It had to happen, and now it has: a social networking website for medical marijuana smokers.Do you use Facebook mainly for chatting online about cannabisr Do you love it when you get a barrage of moro... More >>

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  Obama Administration Says No Guns For Potheads

  published Sep 30, 2011

  If you're a medical marijuana smoker who happens to be in the market for a firearm, you might want to keep your state-issued cannabis card in your wallet once you reach the cash register. According to... More >>

• John Chamberlain Murder Trial: "Cold Blooded, Black Hearted Murderers"

  published Sep 29, 2011

  Shortly before asking jurors to return first degree murder verdicts against the five former Theo Lacy Jail inmates charged in the brutal Oct. 6, 2006 murder of suspected child molester John Chamberlai... More >>

• John Chamberlain Murder Trial: Who Lit the Firer

  published Sep 28, 2011

  Closing arguments began today in the two-month long trial of five jail inmates accused of murdering John Chamberlain, a suspected child molester, at Theo Lacy Jail on Oct. 5, 2006. While both prosecut... More >>

• John Chamberlain Murder Trial: Runaway Juror Edition

  published Sep 26, 2011

  Closing arguments in the trial of five former Theo Lacy Jail inmates accused in the Oct. 5, 2006 beating death of John Chamberlain, perhaps Orange County's most gruesome jailhouse murder, were delayed... More >>

• Joe Grumbine and Joe Byron Denied Medical Defense in Long Beach Pot Trial

  published Sep 23, 2011

  Why Joe Byron and Joe Grumbine, the operators of two shuttered cannabis clubs in Long Beach as well as Garden Grove's Unit D collective, were ever charged for selling marijuana in the first place is a... More >>

• Steele Smith, OC Weekly's "Prophet of Pot," Invents Marijuana Pillr

  published Sep 22, 2011

  Earlier this year, when I interviewed medical marijuana activist Steele Smith about his looming federal case for cultivating marijuana--an interview that Smith used to blast fellow O.C. cannabis club ... More >>

• [UPDATED: Gov. Brown Vetoes Bill] Lou Correa Pushing New Marijuana Buffer Zone Law in Sacramento

  published Sep 21, 2011

  UPDATED, SEPT. 21, 2011, 2:31 pm: Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed SB847, according to this article in the 420Times. Needless to say, celebratory emails are bouncing all over the medical marijuana activist... More >>

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  Reefer Madness: Marijuana Now Accounts For More Than Half Of All Drug Arrests in U.S.

  published Sep 20, 2011

  According to statistics released yesterday by the FBI, 2010 saw more people arrested in the United States for marijuana than any other year, with pot cases now accounting for more than half of all dru... More >>

• John Chamberlain Murder Trial: Witness Says Guard Told Inmates "I Didn't Say to Kill" Victim

  published Sep 16, 2011

  The words and actions of Deputy Kevin Taylor, the guard that inmates accuse of spreading the rumor that John Chamberlain was a child molester on the day he was beaten to death, have so far played only... More >>

• John Chamberlain Murder Trial: Judge Rules to Exclude Evidence of Alleged Cover-Up

  published Sep 13, 2011

  As anyone who has followed this story already knows, John Chamberlain, a Rancho Santa Margarita software engineer arrested for possession of child pornography, was brutally assaulted at the Theo Lacy ... More >>

• Adam Gadahn, American Al-Qaeda Spokesman, Still At Large

  published Sep 09, 2011

  Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden is dead and American drone attacks along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border have supposedly decimated Al Qeada's leadership. But despite repeat... More >>