Subject: Al Stokke

• Haidl 3 Get 6 Years

  At 4:07, Briseno finally put an end to the long-running saga of the Haidl 3, sentencing Greg Haidl, Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann to six years in state prison. The defendants seemed to have expected nothing less; their supporters wept. The judge's decision put a cap on an afternoon that saw the defense switch tactics. In the morning, we heard the defendants and their supporters protest their remorse. That changed after lunch, when Haidl's attorney, Al Stokke, went after Jane Doe, denying that

  March 10, 2006

• Haidl 6-6-6: Defense still victimizing the victim

  Briseno called it: the defendants' claims of remorse were indeed insincere. In the morning we heard the defendants and their supporters apologize to Jane Doe and her family. They offered help. They promised to change. They took responsibility. A few hours later, before sentencing the Haidl 3, Judge Briseno said he attributed the remorse to "self-pity" because they were so likely headed to prison. And indeed, when he sentenced the Haidl 3 to six years each in a state prison--plus lifetime registr

  March 10, 2006

• Haidl 3 Get 6 Years: The recap

  [Editor's note: This is a compilation of Moxley's Friday dispatches from the courthouse. For additional reader comments, please see his original posts.] The naive thought this morning's Haidl 3 sentencing would last maybe 20 minutes. Around 11:30 a.m., Judge Francisco Briseno decided it was time for lunch. Veteran journalists say they haven't seen such a crowd since the 1989 trial of serial killer Randy Kraft. Shouting matches broke out over seats. The Times and Reg sent SWAT teams of reporter

  March 11, 2006

• Complete Haidl 3 Verdict Coverage

  Below is R. Scott Moxley's reporting on the verdict in the Haidl 3 rape case, as it appeared on The Blotter, with the most recent posts on top. For complete coverage of all aspects of the case, see the Weekly's Haidl Gang Rape Archive. March 19, 2006 LA Times v the Weekly on Haidl Rape Plea Filed under: Main — R. Scott Moxley @ 11:47 am If there ever was any doubt that LA Times columnist Dana Parsons is the laziest, most misinformed journalist in the Haidl

  March 12, 2006

• Dem Bones

  First there was yesterday's Election Day lunch--the GOP-heavy shindig where Weekly editor Will Swaim only got halfway through the hilarious speech I wrote for him because he was shuffling back and forth between pages and so lost my text and thus never got to the payoff, "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen! Don't forget to tip your waitstaff and then have them all deported!" Then there were last night's Dem fiestas in Santa Ana. I LOVE ELECTION DAY! I do! I stopped into Proof first; the OC Dem Found

  June 7, 2006

• Stall in Montessori Killer/Rapist Sentencing

  Superior Court Judge William Froeberg had intended to announce punishment this morning for convicted Montessori killer/rapist Jonathan Phong Khanh Tran, 22. But Tran's mother switched defense lawyers and, through new counsel Al Stokke, asked for a five-month delay. Froeberg granted the request. The decision means that Tran continues living in the Orange County Jail, where family members can easily visit. A prison sentence could land him at, say, Pelican Bay State Prison near the California-Oreg

  May 11, 2007

• Totally Stokked

  Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete gets inappropriate attention from voyeuristic losers all over the Internet. Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete's father is understandably upset about it. Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete's father makes his living defending Irvine cops who ejaculate on women during traffic stops. Where to start? Al Stokke's daughter, Allison, 18, is an extraordinary athlete, to say the least. She won a California stat

  June 5, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Camp Says FBI Case "Trash"

  Hookers take cash too, Mikey: Dana Parsons writes today that “the good news for [indicted OC Sheriff Mike] Carona is that the government doesn’t always win.” But Parsons says the “bad news” for Calamity Mike is that the feds take their “sweet time putting public corruption cases together.” He interviewed former assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Greenberg who says his old office is cautious and thorough “in cases like this where you’re trying to take down the county sheriff.” The

  November 8, 2007

• Our DA Now Has an Attorney

  May 2, 2002

• Teen Sex, Cash and Videotape

  January 8, 2004

• Illegally Park-ed

  February 8, 2007

• Bad Dads

  March 16, 2006

• 'People Would Go Crazy'

  March 9, 2006

• Hot for Teacher

  The conviction of Sarah Bench-Salorio raises questions wed rather not think about. And so we havent. Not much, anyhow. Maybe just a little

  January 12, 2006

• Slammer Time

  October 27, 2005

• NOW Hes Sorry!

  September 22, 2005

• The Motion for a Mistrial is Denied

  July 28, 2005

• The Motion for a Mistrial is Denied

  July 21, 2005

• Faultless

  April 29, 2004

• Bada Bing!

  November 28, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 14, 2002

• Garofalo Playing Taps?

  December 6, 2001

• Court Date

  November 15, 2001

• Cancer Wasn't Killing Jack Jessee Fast Enough, So Did His Wife and Stepson Hire a Hit Man?

  July 30, 2009