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James Ochoa

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Todd Spitzer Prepares Surprise In Retaliation For DA's Press Conference Today

    James Ochoa holding his little brother​In hopes of blunting the sting from today's scheduled district attorney's press conference detailing Todd Spitzer's alleged pre-firing shenanigans, Spitzer has prepared a surprise.Spitzer--the former county supervisor, state assemblyman and prosecutor who dre ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Killer Quince

    Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    OC's Judicial Vaudeville Act Wins Recognition Again

    Judicial Vaudeville ​Orange County has employed notorious judges but none have been more arrogant than Robert Fitzgerald. Over past decades Fitzgerald has used his courtroom for an one-man show where he simultaneously plays defense lawyer, prosecutor, jury and judge. We recently learned that he's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    Add Todd Spitzer to heroes list in wrongful conviction case

    The last hints of Republican opposition to pay a Latino man wrongfully imprisoned for a robbery/carjacking he did not commit disappeared this week in the California legislature after Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (R-Orange) called on his colleagues to do the right thing. “As a society we have a respo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2008

    This Week in the OC Weekly

    The last hints of Republican opposition to pay a Latino man wrongfully imprisoned for a robbery/carjacking he did not commit disappeared this week in the California legislature after Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (R-Orange) called on his colleagues to do the right thing. “As a society we have a respo ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] Senator Dick Ackerman Does the Right Thing In the Case of James Ochoa

    The last hints of Republican opposition to pay a Latino man wrongfully imprisoned for a robbery/carjacking he did not commit disappeared this week in the California legislature after Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (R-Orange) called on his colleagues to do the right thing. “As a society we have a respo ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 3, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    The last hints of Republican opposition to pay a Latino man wrongfully imprisoned for a robbery/carjacking he did not commit disappeared this week in the California legislature after Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (R-Orange) called on his colleagues to do the right thing. “As a society we have a respo ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 12, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    The last hints of Republican opposition to pay a Latino man wrongfully imprisoned for a robbery/carjacking he did not commit disappeared this week in the California legislature after Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (R-Orange) called on his colleagues to do the right thing. “As a society we have a respo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2008

    Wrongly Imprisoned OC Man Wins State Payment

    For Buena Park's James Ochoa, the indescribable agony of spending 16 months locked in the Orange County Jail and a California prison for crimes he did not commit is a bit less painful today. This afternoon, a state board in Sacramento voted 3 to 0 to award Ochoa nearly $30,000 in compensation in o ... More >>

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] Notes on Lifeguard Sex, Loretta Sanchez, the Rohrabachers and DNA

    For Buena Park's James Ochoa, the indescribable agony of spending 16 months locked in the Orange County Jail and a California prison for crimes he did not commit is a bit less painful today. This afternoon, a state board in Sacramento voted 3 to 0 to award Ochoa nearly $30,000 in compensation in o ... More >>

  • News

    March 13, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] CSI Games: If DNA Evidence Doesn't Fit in Orange County, Alter It?

    For Buena Park's James Ochoa, the indescribable agony of spending 16 months locked in the Orange County Jail and a California prison for crimes he did not commit is a bit less painful today. This afternoon, a state board in Sacramento voted 3 to 0 to award Ochoa nearly $30,000 in compensation in o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2006

    Moxley's Ochoa Trifecta

    Thanks to one intrepid reporter, the Weekly got mentioned in three different newspaper stories today. Oh, and someone got out of jail. And the DA looks stupid. And the cops. And a judge. Cool. Earlier today Paul Brennan expertly explained how the LA Times was almost exactly a year late in getting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2006

    Far ahead of the Times (Miscarriage of Justice edition)

    Only one year after R. Scott Moxley broke the story of the railroading of an innocent man, James Ochoa, by the Orange County DA's office, eleven months after the conviction of Ochoa on the basis of evidence that didn't point to him and a confession coerced by the unprofessional behavior of an OC ju ... More >>

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Oops

    Judge, DA, cops quietly admit they sent an innocent 20-year-old man to prison for 16 months

  • News

    December 22, 2005

    There Once Was a Judge From Nantucket

    Judge Robert Fitzgerald doesnt know the law, but he can rhyme hold and paroled

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    The Case of the Dog That Couldn't Sniff Straight

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

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