Subject: John Barnett

• Haidl 6-6-6: Defense still victimizing the victim

  Briseno called it: the defendants' claims of remorse were indeed insincere. In the morning we heard the defendants and their supporters apologize to Jane Doe and her family. They offered help. They promised to change. They took responsibility. A few hours later, before sentencing the Haidl 3, Judge Briseno said he attributed the remorse to "self-pity" because they were so likely headed to prison. And indeed, when he sentenced the Haidl 3 to six years each in a state prison--plus lifetime registr

  March 10, 2006

• Haidl 3 Get 6 Years: The recap

  [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

  March 11, 2006

• Complete Haidl 3 Verdict Coverage

  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

  March 12, 2006

• Va Tech Murders Give OC Sheriff Pal Excuse

  At the insistence of John Barnett, OC 's legendary defense lawyer, a San Bernardino County judge refused to allow opening statements Monday in the jury trial of Raymond K. Yi, a former OC reserve deputy who faces six felony charges for a 2005 gun-related temper tantrum on a golf course. Barnett, famous for his defense in the Rodney King police brutality case and the Greg Haidl gang rape trials, urged a mistrial because of the potential "inflammatory nature" of the Seung-Hui Cho killing spree la

  April 24, 2007

• Officer, is that dandruff under your nostril?

  It’s the last week of 2007 inside Orange County’s Central Justice Center, and the place is dead except at each of the three public entrances. A half-dozen young bailiffs have forgotten security fears (Al-Qaeda!) but collect pay and perks while they chat happily about the electronic toys they received for Christmas. Moments later, a well-dressed, polite, non-English-speaking man stops me, displays a court document and asks me if I speak Spanish. Nope. I scan the document he’s holding and d

  December 26, 2007

• The Good Boys

  May 6, 2004

• Indicted Ex-Superintendent Flies Back to Never Neverland

  Fleming aka Peter Pan?Almost two years after making headlines for being the highest public official to ever be indicted in Orange County (this was pre-Carona), ex-superintendent James Fleming, and indicted ex-assistant superintendent Susan McGill, walked out of the Orange County Courthouse today unfazed by the court trial that never was. For the fifth time in two years today, when a jury trial was (finally) set to begin, Judge Thomas Goethals allowed the case against Fleming and McGill to be del

  April 7, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Police Pilots Say They Got the Pointer

  April 9, 2009

• Slammer Time!

  August 5, 2004

• Haidl Claims Judge Screwed Him

  July 14, 2005

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

  Assistant sheriff, OC dailies miss the irony as Haidl 3 elude conviction

  July 1, 2004

• Haidl Your Daughters

  May 6, 2004

• Angry Asian Rap Stalls Case

  VA Tech murders give OC Sheriff pal excuse

  April 26, 2007

• Illegally Park-ed

  February 8, 2007

• Hammer Time

  September 28, 2006

• Bad Dads

  March 16, 2006

• Haidl Gang Rape Archive

  January 26, 2006

• Sex, Bribes and Jailhouse Scams

  Sheriff Carona working overtime to stop reports he's a serial adulterer

  October 13, 2005

• The Motion for a Mistrial is Denied

  July 28, 2005

• Haidl Claims Judge Screwed Him

  July 21, 2005

• The Motion for a Mistrial is Denied

  July 21, 2005

• Gang-Rape Trio to Walk?

  July 21, 2005

• Kiss Haidl Goodbye

  March 24, 2005

• Mean Girls: The Sequel

  March 17, 2005

• Haidl Trial Closing

  March 17, 2005

• See? No Evil

  March 3, 2005

• The Army of God

  August 12, 2004

• Slammer Time!

  July 29, 2004

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

  UPDATED: Assistant sheriff, OC dailies miss the irony as Haidl Three elude conviction

  July 8, 2004

• Unreasonable Doubts?

  July 1, 2004

• Bottoms Up!

  June 24, 2004

• Hung Jury?

  June 24, 2004

• Two Plus Two Is Five

  June 17, 2004

• Bottoms Up!

  June 17, 2004

• No Rest for the Wicked

  June 10, 2004

• Two Plus Two Is Five

  June 10, 2004

• No Rest for the Wicked

  June 3, 2004

• Inexpert Witness

  May 13, 2004

• Faultless

  April 29, 2004

• Exhibit X-Rated

  November 20, 2003

• Exhibit X-Rated

  November 13, 2003

• Dumbbell

  March 15, 2001

• Major, Blankenship Win Deputy Union Vote Tonight in DA Office Battle

  Blankenship wins vote of confidenceTonight's secret ballot law enforcement election (previously discussed in detail HERE) recorded a 60 percent turnout and good news for both Mike Major, acting chief of the Orange County District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation, and Don Blankenship (pictured), the unit's longtime boss who took a sudden leave of absence two months ago.The results, posted on the "members only" section of the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCSD) website tonight,

  May 13, 2009