Richard Aronson

Man Punched, Slammed & Stomped Girlfriend's Face But Wants To Be Punished For Only One Act Of Violence

A January 2010 day began well for Orange County's 21-year-old Aaron Michael Laythorpe who took his girlfriend and their baby on an enjoyable beer-drinking trip to a Fashion Island restaurant in Newport Beach.But the day ended in horrific, senseless domestic violence.Laythorpe eventually dropped Jill ... More >>

Orange County Gangster Says Restitution To His Attempted Murder Victim is Unfair

Poor David Dae Hong Kim.No, Buena Park's Kim is literally dirt poor.He earns 13 cents an hour working in a prison laundry room and is irked that the government wants to take about half of that impressive income and give it to another man.Outrageous, isn't it?Well, no.In March 2008, 17-year-old Kim, ... More >>

Citizen of the Week! Meet Joseph Martinez, Perverted Grandpa

At this very moment, Orange County's Joseph Coronado Martinez is sitting in a California prison and he's immensely frustrated, in part, because he's not attracted to his neighbors.Martinez--a 64-year-old grandfather with a 5-foot-3 and 200 pound physique--thinks the criminal justice system treated h ... More >>

Did 18YR Delay in Arrest Violate Speedy Trial Rights of Accused Child Molester?

Anin Sen, 30, was naked and on top of a 11-year-old Santa Ana girl on Nov. 17, 1992, when the girl's mother walked into her home, saw the sex crime in action and screamed. Sen, who was on probation for domestic violence at the time, darted from the Cambodian residence without his clothes and di ... More >>

Santa Ana Gangster Isn't Happy With 10-Year Gang Enhancement For Attempted Murder

Martin Perez joined the Lyon Street criminal street gang at the age of 14 and enjoyed four relatively fun years in freedom using the moniker "Chino."Perez recruited people for the gang, tagged his Orange County neighborhood, used gang symbolism as his cell phone wall paper, kept gang photographs on ... More >>

Santa Ana Pedophile: Police Unfairly Tricked A Confession About Boy Rape

For several months leading up to early 2010, a woman on her way to work routinely dropped off her three children at her sister's house in Santa Ana where she assumed they would be safe.One day in February, one of the kids, an eight-year-old boy, told his mother that he had been repeatedly sodomized ... More >>

Orange County Home Invasion Robber: Judge Screwed Up So I Win, Right?

Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary S. Paer read an outdated jury instruction at the conclusion of Anthony Michael Vega's trial for a 2008 kidnapping and home invasion robbery in La Habra and the Commerce man got sent away to prison.Vega appealed the 2011 convictions and this week learned that j ... More >>

Evil Ways Gangster From Police Car Chase Wins Conviction Appeal Point

During all those Southern California police car chases you constantly see broadcast live on Los Angeles TV stations, you've probably wondered how much prison time the suspect could get after his arrest.In the case of Jesus Ignacio Espinoza Sanchez the term was five years following a wild 2010 Garden ... More >>

Disgusting Buena Park Liquor Store Robbers Claim Judge Stole Justice

Neil Deontrai Duffey and William Deshawn Cartlidge committed a brutal, senseless Buena Park liquor store robbery in August 2006, but insist that Orange County's criminal justice system robbed them of a fair trial.Duffey shot the store clerk in the head with a handgun, shot a customer entering the st ... More >>

South Side Krooks, Anaheim Gang, Lose Thug To Prison After Stupid Shooting

You can't help but note Andrew Aguilar's audacity.At the age of 18 in August 2008, the Anaheim gangster and a fellow hoodlum decided to terrorize their neighborhood.The two members of the turf-happy South Side Krooks (SSK) criminal street gang approached two other men who'd just finished cleaning up ... More >>

Huntington Beach Motel Killer: It Wasn't Murder! It Was Post Sex Passion!

After getting drunk and beating his common law wife of 18 years in Sept. 2008, Fidelio Salazar Marin fled Orange County and the police for Washington state and took a job picking grapes and apples.The following month, Marin snuck back by bus and, using a fake identity because he isn't eligible for a ... More >>

OC Youth Sports Coach & Serial Child Molester: My Punishment is Cruel

As a youth sports coach, Cameron Joseph Baca liked to befriend South Orange County moms and dads as a way to get close to their male children and then sexually abuse the youngsters.Baca was brazenly good at his crimes.Without parents suspecting, he managed to separately abuse at least three boys--ag ... More >>

Disgusting OC Child Molester Wins Conviction Reversal

Those loud screams of joy you might have heard this week from inside a cell at California State Prison at Lancaster belonged Orange County's Jorge Cruz Adan Flores, a disgusting child molester.In 2006, Flores sodomized and orally copulated a child under the age of 10. He denied the charges, but a 20 ... More >>

Judge Frank F. Fasel Slammed By Appellate Court For Illegal Sentencing of OC Meth Dealer

For eons, Orange County Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel has run his courtroom with military precision and zero tolerance for cheap antics or insubordination.Who knew Fasel--who has an ideal, stern poker face and the demeanor of an overworked mortician--is also a rule breaker?This month, a Califo ... More >>

Saigon TV Owners Accused of Cheating the Station's Founder Lose Jury Verdict Appeal

A California Court of Appeal has blasted the owners of Saigon TV for dishonesty in its legal attempts to overturn a $472,000 judgement against them for cheating the founder of the Vietnamese language station in Little Saigon. Following a 2010 jury trial in Orange County Superior Court, Larry Phan--t ... More >>

Carlos Rosario Gonzales Murdered over OC Club's No-Fondling-the-Strippers Rule

​After spending three hours inside a Santa Ana strip club with his friends on an October 2006 afternoon, Carlos Rosario Gonzales couldn't bring himself to obey the club's rule: Don't fondle the strippers.Worse, Gonzales couldn't appreciate that the club's security wanted to eject him when he becam ... More >>

OC Judge Reversed For Cruel Treatment of Ex-Husband in Child Support Case

​By 2010, Southern California home building executive James E. Lockington lost 99 percent of his $14,500 monthly income, short sold his house to prevent foreclosure, loaded his credit cards with debt and moved into his sister's house to avoid becoming homeless, but Superior Court Judge Ronald P. K ... More >>

French Kissing Is Sex -- Especially Between Adult and Minor, Court Rules

John Stuart Moses: tongue trouble​You can finally breathe. An age old, looming question has been officially resolved.A California appellate court panel based in Santa Ana this month settled the question about whether French kissing is inherently a sex act.It is, according to the court.

Ex-CHP Employee Loses Again on Leak of Decapitation Pictures

​There's more bad news for Aaron Reich, the former California Highway Patrol (CHP) dispatch officer who, along with another CHP employee, leaked photographs of the 2006 Halloween decapitation of an 18-year-old Orange County driver of a Porshe 911 Carerra.Judges have called the action of Reich and ... More >>

CHP Cop Convicted of Lewd Acts Attempt on 13-year-old Girl Loses Appeal

Jim RuggLittle girl, do you know why I pulled you over?​This week, a California Court of Appeal rejected the claims of a convicted California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer who attempted to sexually molest a 13-year-old Laguna Beach girl after learning during an online chat that the girl's moth ... More >>

Sodom and Gomorrah Witnesses Wrecked OC Trial?

Murdoch: Aliens are living inside me.​The proof that the witnesses against him were not human was obvious to Michael Craig Murdoch during his 2010 trial in Orange County Superior Court for felony assault with a deadly weapon (a beer bottle) and battery causing serious bodily injury.In court, Murdo ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton Textbook Theft Nets Student Big Prison Term

Guidry: who is robbing who here?​There's little doubt that Cal State Fullerton campus policeman John Brockie twice botched evidence from a photographic lineup in a case that convicted John Earl Guidry, a student, of stealing two textbooks from a school bookstore.Brockie asked a witness to identify ... More >>

One Gift A Niece Doesn't Want From Her Uncle: Incest

Meneses: bad uncle​Jasinto Duran Meneses isn't happy that Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard M. King gave him a 15-years-to-life prison sentence.His crime, Meneses said, wasn't as disturbing as King or county prosecutors alleged. Besides, he had been intoxicated and he hadn't intended to i ... More >>

Man Who Attacked Theatergoers at Horror Movie Wins Appeal

Real Horror​Steven Walter Robinson, better known as the Fullerton AMC slasher, was improperly convicted and sentenced to 22 years to life in prison for attempting to murder fellow theatergoers at a 2008 screening of the horror film The Signal.That's the recent ruling of a Santa Ana-based Californi ... More >>

Top 15 Notable OC Quotes of 2010

Rev. Schuller: Give me mo' money!​15. "I want to tongue every inch of you because I love you."--A text message Oxford Academy high-school history teacher Christopher John Ontiveros allegedly sent to a 17-year-old female student before his arrest for sex crimes.14. "[Barney Frank] will be shot dead ... More >>

Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas Bombs in Court Secrecy Attempt

Jeanne Rice/OC WeeklyCourt to Nicholas: Nope​The California appellate justices in Orange County this afternoon rejected the proposal by a local billionaire that he, and those with immense wealth, deserve special rights to use the public court system in near top secret fashion.The winner in the bat ... More >>

Haidl Gang Rapists' Last Stand, We Think

[Moxley Confidential] Appellate justices shoot down lawyers' renewed attempts to blame the victim of this disgusting crime

Justices Reject Convictions Against Man Who Allegedly Shot At Cops

A dog of a case?​The Orange County District Attorney's Office twice has won convictions against Ernest Benefiel related to highly questionable allegations he assaulted police officers in a bizarre 2004 Fullerton incident, and now a state appeals court for the second time has rejected the prosecuti ... More >>

"Haidl Three" Appeal Centers on Consent to Sicko Gang Bang

AP pool photoKyle Nachreiner, Keith Spann and Gregory Haidl react at their 2006 sentencing.​The crux of the appeal the attorney for convicted gang rapist Gregory Haidl laid out before state appellate justices in Santa Ana this morning involved the consent of his victim. But it was not whether 16-y ... More >>

Who Killed Tootsie? And Should Her Owner Get Paid for Her Emotional Distress?

Court Slaps Little Saigon Red-Baiter

The decades-old Little Saigon sport of falsely labeling a fellow Vietnamese immigrant "a Communist" if that person doesn't share your right-wing politics now finally has consequences. Just ask Sinh Cuong Cao. In 2007, Kimoanh Nguyen-Lam (pictured) was fired as the nation's first Vietnamese American ... More >>

How Not to Commit Suicide

Unlucky OC man wanted to die quietly but landed in prison after explosion

Badgering and Blunders

Judges misconduct could set OC man free from six-year prison sentence