Criminal Law

Letters

Redemption Song

Dave Herrick's strange odyssey through the U.S. war on drugs

We Already Hate Kids Here

Proposition 21 wont change much in OC

Were All Victims Now!

Plea bargain in anti-Christian shooting raises questions about fairness of hate-crime laws

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Plea bargain in anti-Christian shooting raises questions about fairness of hate-crime laws

[Moxley Confidential] Clint McCall Gets His Man, Again

Plea bargain in anti-Christian shooting raises questions about fairness of hate-crime laws

[Moxley Confidential] Sheriff Hutchens' Concealed-Weapon Policy Prompts Talk of Homosexual Plot

Plea bargain in anti-Christian shooting raises questions about fairness of hate-crime laws

[Moxley Confidential] Meet Catherine Cass of Santa Ana, OC's Most Annoying Neighbor

Plea bargain in anti-Christian shooting raises questions about fairness of hate-crime laws

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Plea bargain in anti-Christian shooting raises questions about fairness of hate-crime laws

Brown Act Blues

The DA doesn’t file criminal charges against CAPO Unified School trustees, but their violations of the state open-meeting law will go on their permanent records

Caught in Violation of the Act

WEB EXCLUSIVE! DAs report finds Capistrano Unified held illegal closed meetings

Andy Get Your Gun

OC arms dealer with AK-47s, rocket launchers escapes prosecution

Letters

'Dude, what were you thinking?'

The Beer That Made Tustin Infamous

OC cops seek to expand anti-public-drinking laws to private property

Tony Baloney

Two weeks ago, he was oddly the harshest critic of local justice. Meet the new Tony Rackauckas

The Case of the Dog That Couldn't Sniff Straight

Sloppy police work, callous prosecutors, indifferent judges doom dirt-poor Latino man

'Showing 95-Year-Old Old Dick Isnt a Pretty Sight'

Sloppy police work, callous prosecutors, indifferent judges doom dirt-poor Latino man

One Good Bribery Charge Deserves Another

After grand jury indicts Jaramillo, ex-top cop accuses DA of similar crime

OC Law Enforcement 'Poisoned'

Assemblyman Todd Spitzer questions the District Attorneys judgment, fairness

White Collar Crackerjack

Orange trash haulers case is soooo 1998

Putting the Con in Condo

Councilwoman may have illegally converted apartments

Star Chambered

More than a year after charging Gustavo Orejel, prosecutors still havent interviewed mystery witnesses against him

Murder, He Wrote

Brother alleges county is covering up El Toro colonels murder

Letters

Brother alleges county is covering up El Toro colonels murder

Out of His Skull

What do you get when you combine paranoia, ego and almost limitless power?
Answer: DA Tony Rackauckas

Gag Order

The war inside the DAs media department

Bada Bing!

Attorney General auditing Orange County DAs questionable use of witness-protection funds

Scam Adams

John Adams wants to be judge in a bad way

Bring Me the Head of Donald Garcia

How a Green Party activist tracked an Anaheim trustee to Corona del Mar

Lo Siento

An open letter of apology to the Spanish people

Court Date

DA readies grand jury case against Garofalo

Third Strike

Its time to dump a DA who has broken faith with the public in at least three crucial cases

Two Down, One to Go

With Carmona and Moore free, George Lopez should be next

Vote for Me, the SOB!

Son of Bill (Steiner) tries to follow in Daddys footsteps

Night Drop

Argyros debacle reminds us of another HB scandal, this one involving a bank

You Dont Wanna Be Dave

Former HB mayors case goes to the DAs office

'Where Is Edward Quinones?'

The case of the missing Santa Ana inmate

Slumlord Sweepstakes!

Is Eve Mitchell the countys most successful tenement entrepreneur?

Testilying

Video embarrasses DA, Newport cops

Party's Not Over Yet

GOP insider maneouvers for DA's office

Rohrabacher: 'I Am Not a Homosexual'

Angry Republican stirs up OCN

Schroeder Plays the Times Like a Piano

Dornan attorney says Times reporters worked for him

Ask Not For Whom Mike Capizzi Works

DA's aggressive defense of Wall Street firm

The Mexican No-Show Show

Bob Dornan, the Times and an 18-Vote 'Scandal'

The Wrong Profile

Eddie Quinones says he was safer in jail

Why is the City of Orange Taking a Little Old Lady to Criminal Court?

Look like a criminal to you? **Update: Aranda reluctantly pleads guilty, gets probation. Click here for the story.**Does the city of Orange not have better things to do than to take little old ladies to criminal court? Genoveva Aranda, a small, fragile grandmother who lives in historic Orange, is go ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, doesn't work

Bradley Stewart Wagner, Ex-Cop Who Forced Immigrants to Sex Him Up, Heads to Federal Court

​Bradley Stewart Wagner, a former Anaheim police officer who was sentenced last month to four years in prison for forcing immigrant women to blow him lest he have them deported, has more legal entanglements ahead. The 63-year-old Perris resident is due in federal court in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, w ... More >>

[UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

​UPDATED, FEB. 28, 8:33 A.M.: The Islamic Institute of Orange County hosts "Stand With the Irvine 11: Community Town Hall and Action" at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the IIOC Multipurpose Room, 1220 N. State College Blvd., Irvine.The event flier follows after the jump. (Also, scroll down a couple posts i ... More >>

[UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

Photos by Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySeven of the Irvine 11​UPDATE, MARCH 11, 4:08 P.M.: The arraignment of the Irvine 11 was continued this morning until April 15 so the court can consider defense motions to seal grand jury documents, remove the Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) from the ... More >>