The innocent 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 reporters. The three defendants--Greg Haidl, Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann--were brought in chained together wearing orange jumpsuits. Haidl's head is almos
[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
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
Last year, an Orange County jury convicted three young men for the 2002 videotaped rape and molestation of an unconscious 16-year-old girl on a pool table in a Newport Beach garage. The case made national headlines not just because the drunk men laughed as they repeatedly shoved a Snapple bottle, apple-juice can, lit cigarette and a pool cue in both of the girl's lower orifices, but because one of the defendants was the son to an assistant Orange County sheriff, Don Haidl.
If Haidl also happen
Both chatty and oblivious that the grotesque crime mystery they would have to solve was solving itself, the makings of an Orange County jury stood this morning in the hallway outside C45, the top-floor Santa Ana courtroom for Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseño.
With an empty courtroom except for yours truly, Anaheim's Alan David Beisel made a last-minute decision to forgo a trial and formally confess to Mark Birney, a veteran prosecutor. Birney read his one-count allegation: On May 18, B
