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Jerry Steering

  • News

    May 17, 2012

    LA Deputies On Beating Johnnie Franklin Jones

    [Moxley Confidential] It isn't just the Kelly Thomas killing in which cops believe they have the right to execute a citizen during a scuffle

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Transit Deputies Who Severely Beat Unarmed Homeless Man Get Hung Jury

    An Orange County federal jury could not reach a unanimous decision today in the civil case of a unarmed homeless man severely beaten in Santa Ana by two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department transit deputies in November 2009.U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter accepted the jury foreman's rep ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    The Chamberlain Files

    The inside story of covering—and becoming part of—the county's most disturbing jailhouse murder case

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Family of Slain OC Jail Inmate Wins $2.1 Million From County

    ​On March 25, 2008, Jason Jesus Gomez, 35, who was in custody for a probation violation and had been off his medication for several days, began attacking jail employees. As he was being restrained, Gomez repeatedly claimed he couldn't breath. Deputies soon realized Gomez was right when he literall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Dudes, You Tased the Wrong Bro!

    ​Poor Skip Torrance.A couple of years ago, the Bank of America vice president stubbed his toe while walking to his car and cursed like a sailor. Because he was acting kind of strange, a quick-thinking bystander wrote down his license plate, thinking Torrance must have been the guy who just assault ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2009

    Garden Grove Pays Half a Million to Settle Brutality Suit With Santos Family

    John Gilhooley​ Remember that feature story from last year, "Party Crashers"? The one with the cover artwork showing a birthday cake with all these cops as candles and the headline that said "At this Garden Grove Family Barbecue, the Cops Brought the Pepper Spray and Handcuffs?"The story concerned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    An Unsettling Settlement for the Family of Ashley MacDonald

    Forty million dollars. That's how much the parents of Ashley MacDonald were asking for in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the City of Huntington Beach. In 2006, a distraught MacDonald stood in a park near her Huntington Beach home, brandishing a knife. Two Huntington Beach police officers say MacDo ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    DA Drops Charges Against Frank Santos, Who Was Accused of Pushing a Garden Grove Cop

    Forty million dollars. That's how much the parents of Ashley MacDonald were asking for in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the City of Huntington Beach. In 2006, a distraught MacDonald stood in a park near her Huntington Beach home, brandishing a knife. Two Huntington Beach police officers say MacDo ... More >>

  • Features

    June 5, 2008

    At Frank Santos' Garden Grove Family Barbecue, the Police Brought the Pepper Spray and Handcuffs

    Forty million dollars. That's how much the parents of Ashley MacDonald were asking for in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the City of Huntington Beach. In 2006, a distraught MacDonald stood in a park near her Huntington Beach home, brandishing a knife. Two Huntington Beach police officers say MacDo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2007

    Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Is An OC lawyer also a Slumlord?

    Relax, It's Just a Game: Scott Glover and Matt Lait at the Times reveal today that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies have been playing on-duty law-enforcement competitions. According to an internal department e-mail obtained by the reporters, one game was called “Operation Any Booking,” i ... More >>

  • News

    May 10, 2007

    Tased and Not Confused

    To lawyer in OC jailhouse-tasing incident, missing footage is no shocker

  • News

    March 29, 2007

    Blind Spot

    For OC jail inmate John Chamberlain, jailhouse justice served as judge, juryand executioner

  • News

    March 15, 2007

    Inside the Kill Zone

    Eyewitnesses contradict official version of Surf City shooting

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