Eileen Moore

Man Punched, Slammed & Stomped Girlfriend's Face But Wants To Be Punished For Only One Act Of Violence

A January 2010 day began well for Orange County's 21-year-old Aaron Michael Laythorpe who took his girlfriend and their baby on an enjoyable beer-drinking trip to a Fashion Island restaurant in Newport Beach.But the day ended in horrific, senseless domestic violence.Laythorpe eventually dropped Jill ... More >>

Sister Blocks Dead Brother's Wishes For His Gay Partner

A California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana ruled this week that an Orange County Superior Court judge improperly sided against a gay man seeking assets from his deceased partner's estate.Before he died in October 2010, James Humpert promised Richard Allen--his longtime, loving partner--that he ... More >>

The OC District Attorney's Office's Legal Deceit

[Moxley Confidential] More evidence proves prosecutor hoodwinked grand jury for indictments in bizarre Newport Beach blackmail case

Rapist Edward Phillip Mckenna Represented Himself; Now Demands New Trial Because, Drum Roll, He Sucked As A Lawyer

In April 1999, a knife-brandishing Edward Phillip Mckenna entered a La Habra dress shop, tied up the 73-year-old clerk, raped her, robbed the store and stole the woman's vehicle.Mckenna, already a convicted felon for a prior attempted murder and robbery he committed for a criminal street gang, deman ... More >>

Orange County Home Invasion Robber: Judge Screwed Up So I Win, Right?

Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary S. Paer read an outdated jury instruction at the conclusion of Anthony Michael Vega's trial for a 2008 kidnapping and home invasion robbery in La Habra and the Commerce man got sent away to prison.Vega appealed the 2011 convictions and this week learned that j ... More >>

DA Tony Rackauckas Wrecks Hoodlum's Quick Prison Trip

Most often hoodlums locked in prison drop the pruno jar and fly off their bunk beds with joy when they hear that an appellate court has issued a reversal in their criminal case.But sadly for Orange County's Daniel Infante the news wasn't worth celebrating.Infante, a Headhunters gangster in the midst ... More >>

Gregory Cantrell, Newport Beach Businessman, Loses Child Molestation Appeal

In December 2003, Orange County businessman Gregory Erik Cantrell repeatedly molested a 12-year-old female relative, but the crimes went undiscovered for four years.Cantrell was charged and convicted of domestic violence in 2006--winning two days in jail and probation.The following year prosecutors ... More >>

The Case of the Cross Dresser, Cocaine, Lovely Lingerie, Frying Pan & Horrified Woman

Imagine you're a mother and wife who wakes up in bed at 5 one morning because you hear heavy breathing.With your eyes still closed, you think that the person standing over you is your frisky husband.But it's not.The person at your bed's edge staring at you is naked except for his socks.It's one of y ... More >>

Newport Coast Offers Stunning Ocean Views and an Arsenic Mystery

[Moxley Confidential] Wealthy mother Anna D. Steiner, who complained about the poisoning of her children, finds herself in a police-state nightmare

Ethan Rosenfeld: Court Rejects OCDA's First Degree Murder Conviction

​There's no doubt that alcoholic Ethan Emanuel Rosenfeld murdered his elderly mother in Leisure World, but two powerful legal entities don't agree on the strength of the district attorney's case.On May 30, 2005, Orange County paramedics found 82-year-old Helen Rosenfeld wrapped in bed "like a burr ... More >>

Timothy J. Donahue, Orange Lawyer, Slapped with $10,000 Sanction for Recycling His Work

​A California appellate justice in Santa Ana slapped an Orange attorney with a scathing opinion and $10,000 in sanctions Tuesday for essentially failing to do his homework.Talk about the wrong reaction: the lawyer in question responded back that Justice William Bedsworth of the Fourth District Co ... More >>

Jose Agustin Maya: Case of the Bad Landlord and the Little Boy

Bad landlord​Not far from Disneyland in March 2008, Anaheim landlord Jose Agustin Lara Maya wanted more than rent from a family renting a garage room on his property.Maya, then 71, wanted to have sex with the family's 11-year-old boy, named "O" in court records.Under the ruse of using O to help tr ... More >>

Imade A. Jati, Daddy Rapist: But I Was Careful Not To Get My Daughter Pregnant

​Imade A. Jati didn't know that the call from his daughter was being recorded or that the questions he was being asked had been written by Matt Ricci, a veteran Irvine police detective.So, when the high school senior asked her father if he'd promise never to have sex with her again, he replied, "A ... More >>

Stepdad Loses Rape Appeal in Case involving a 13-year-old Girl

Golson​When he was 49 years old, 5-foot-10, 320-pound Greg Nelson Golson decided he wanted to rape a petite 13-year-old girl, the daughter of his ex-wife who shared a home with Golson.The mother would later admit she heard strange noises at night so she decided to wear ear plugs to bed.The girl en ... More >>

Local Businessman Loses Appeal Based on Family's Nazi Past and Arbiter's Holocaust Nightmares

​The Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana has upheld an arbiter's ruling that had been challenged because he is Jewish and his sister died in the Holocaust.What does that have to do with the price of beans in Tel Aviv? Well, the father of the arbitration loser fought in the German army and ... More >>

How Much Would You Pay To Avoid Prison?

Schapel​Here's your dilemma: You can either pay $4,000 a month for 200 months or spend 80 months locked in a California prison?Hard choice?It apparently wasn't for David Scott Schapel, a 36-year-old Rancho Santa Margarita man.He chose prison.

Ex-CHP Employee Loses Again on Leak of Decapitation Pictures

​There's more bad news for Aaron Reich, the former California Highway Patrol (CHP) dispatch officer who, along with another CHP employee, leaked photographs of the 2006 Halloween decapitation of an 18-year-old Orange County driver of a Porshe 911 Carerra.Judges have called the action of Reich and ... More >>

Sodom and Gomorrah Witnesses Wrecked OC Trial?

Murdoch: Aliens are living inside me.​The proof that the witnesses against him were not human was obvious to Michael Craig Murdoch during his 2010 trial in Orange County Superior Court for felony assault with a deadly weapon (a beer bottle) and battery causing serious bodily injury.In court, Murdo ... More >>

OC Porn Star Loses Appeal for a New Trial

Dancing with the porn star​The popular Irvine adult dance instructor who sued an Orange County woman for causing his dismissal by accusing him, a former gay pornography star, of trying to recruit her 15-year-old son into porn has lost his appeal for a new trial. A California Court of Appeal ... More >>

John M. Shanahan: Hooked on Sexual Harassment

[Moxley Confidential] The Newport Beach businessman pays $1.7 million after asking his employee for rough sex

Man Who Attacked Theatergoers at Horror Movie Wins Appeal

Real Horror​Steven Walter Robinson, better known as the Fullerton AMC slasher, was improperly convicted and sentenced to 22 years to life in prison for attempting to murder fellow theatergoers at a 2008 screening of the horror film The Signal.That's the recent ruling of a Santa Ana-based Californi ... More >>

Little Saigon Decapitation Case Gets Reversed

Phan wins argument​Judge James P. Marion didn't believe Kenny Minh Phan's excuse for running away from a 2008 fatal near-decapitation accident he'd caused in Little Saigon after ignoring a red traffic light.Phan claimed he'd fled the gruesome mess because he was in "shock" and feared his own broth ... More >>

Sex Crime Suspect Wins, Loses, Wins

Mosley​When he was 18 years old Steven Lloyd Mosley of Anaheim did something with a 12-year-old girl that may have involved kisses near a residential pool or forceful intercourse in a garage or both, according to court records.After the June 2003 incident, an Orange County jury refused to find ... More >>

OC Judge Once Again Rebuked For Anti-Immigrant Bigotry

Archie Bunker is alive, well and in drag in the OC courthouse!​Is Nancy Pollard the Archie Bunker of Orange County's court system?Twice this year, a California Court of Appeal has rebuked Pollard for making what appellate justices considered anti-immigrant statements during cases. In the most ... More >>

Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas Bombs in Court Secrecy Attempt

Jeanne Rice/OC WeeklyCourt to Nicholas: Nope​The California appellate justices in Orange County this afternoon rejected the proposal by a local billionaire that he, and those with immense wealth, deserve special rights to use the public court system in near top secret fashion.The winner in the bat ... More >>

Citizen of the Week!

Robyn Renne Devereaux, a onetime Latham & Watkins paralegal, met Melissa Jo Rodriguez, a retired California Highway Patrol dispatcher, on ObesityHelp.com in 2005. The two Orange County women quickly bonded, sharing secrets and fun during nine months. But by early 2006, their friendship had collapsed ... More >>

Badgering and Blunders

Judges misconduct could set OC man free from six-year prison sentence

'Gay Panic'

Three men go wilding; the gays made them do it

A Day in the Park With Hitler

Justice Takes a Beating

OC court greenlights torture in local jails