Subject: John Chamberlain

• DA to speak tomorrow on OC Jail Murder

  Late this afternoon, the District Attorney's press office notified reporters that Tony Rackauckas will publicly address the controversial John Chamberlain jail murder on Friday morning. Prosecutors and the grand jury investigated the killing, but the results have not yet been made public. Rackauckas is expected to announce multiple indictments. Last week, two high-ranking assistant sheriffs, Jo Ann Galisky and Steve Bishop, quit after officials confronted them with their related actions. Stay tu

  March 6, 2008

• Jail Deputies Officially Off the Hook for Bloodiest Jail Murder in County History

  At a press conference this afternoon at the District Attorney's headquarters in Santa Ana, DA Tony Rackauckas announced that a nine-month grand jury investigation by his agency failed to uncover any evidence to charge any Orange County Sheriff's Department personnel for the most bloody murder in the history of the county's jail system. Rackauckas had just finished a brief appearance at OC Superior Court Judge Thomas Borris' courtroom, where three inmates were charged with the Oct. 5, 2006 murde

  March 7, 2008

• The Acting-Loving Jack Anderson

  The county is still abuzz about the failed jewelry heist at the Shops at Mission Viejo that left an idiot in a bad wig dead and the Orange County Sheriff Department investigating its own since two deputies shot the guy. Given that Kirk Christian Knight (just one letter removed from KKK!) fired at the deputies, this latest death under OCSD watch is much more justified than, say, the John Chamberlain affair. But what's been the strangest development so far is the visibility of acting sheriff Jack

  March 11, 2008

• Dirty Deputies? Where have you read that before today?

  'I Lit the Fire': Jared Petrovich claims he was just following orders when his words sparked a fatal jailhouse beating; April 3, 2008, By Nick Schou An Open Letter to DA Tony Rackauckas Regarding the Jailhouse Murder of John Chamberlain; March 13, 2008, By Nick Schou Tased and Not Confused: To lawyer in OC jailhouse-tasing incident, missing footage is no shocker; May 10, 2007, By Nick Schou Thanks for the Work! An open letter to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, Sheriff Mike Carona, and t

  April 7, 2008

• OC Sheriff's officials call deputy in Jail Murder Probe "Lazy" and a "Bully"

  According to his colleagues and superiors, the deputy at the center of Orange County's bloodiest jailhouse murder—a man who claims he was watching television when two dozen inmates beat a suspected child molester to death just yards away—is “lazy” and showed a pattern of behavior described by his own department as that of a “bully.” While supposedly watching guard over the roughly 150 inmates in Theo Lacy's F-West Barracks, where John Chamberlain, a Mission Viejo software engineer a

  April 7, 2008

• Another Witness Weighs In on the Jailhouse Beating of Ex-Kiss Guitarist Mark Leslie Norton

  July 10, 2008

• DA's Office Says Alleged Jail Beating of Former Kiss Guitarist Referred to Sheriff's Department

  June 19, 2008

• Theo Lacy Unmasked: Was Ex-Kiss Guitarist Mark St. John a Victim of Brutal Jailhouse Justice?

  April 17, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] DA's Report Is a Stunning Indictment of the Mike Carona-Run Jails—Sort Of

  April 10, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 3, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  March 20, 2008

• An Open Letter to DA Tony Rackauckas Regarding the Jailhouse Murder of John Chamberlain

  March 13, 2008

• OC's Scariest People

  Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)

  October 25, 2007

• Tased and Not Confused

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

  May 10, 2007

• Letters

  As usual with the OC Weekly, this article sucks donkey dick. Keep up the great investigative reporting and fighting against liberty and security

  April 19, 2007

• Letters

  'This article is CRAP. This interview never happened, and falsifying information in that way is wrong for so many reasons. Mickey Mouse is a household name. Its like slandering Jesus; you just dont do it'

  April 12, 2007

• Thanks for the Work!

  An open letter to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, Sheriff Mike Carona, and the police chiefs and mayors of every Orange County city except Laguna Niguel

  April 5, 2007

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 23, 2009

• Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's Pet Deputy Sues Over Lesbian Discrimination, Murder Corruption Probe

  Galisky says anti-gay bigots knocked her out of OCSDCan a onetime lesbian assistant sheriff who rose in rank above potentially hundreds of more qualified deputies solely because of her unswerving personal loyalty to a corrupt sheriff claim that her career was sabotaged by anti-gay bigots?Well, if you're Jo Ann Galisky, you can.In a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in May, Galisky alleges that her rights as a lesbian have been violated since 1984 because of Orange County Sheriff's Departme

  June 9, 2009

• Justice Department Probing OC Jail Brutality

  Ex-Sheriff Carona to Feds: Please Clean up the Jails before I start serving time!​Front page stories in both the LA Times and Register today report that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Orange County's jail system in the wake of recent brutality allegations. "Officials from the department's Civil Rights Division are seeking to determine whether incidents of violence by jail personnel amount to a pattern of violating inmates' rights, the Sheriff's Department confirmed," writes the T

  August 14, 2009