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Robert Fitzgerald

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    Ivan Von Staich: Killer Loses Parole Battle But Wins the Ugliest Mugshot of the Week War

    ​The ugliest police mugshot of the week comes not from a cop shop or district attorney's office but the California Department of Corrections, which is charged with continuing the incarcerate Ivan Von Staich with the governor's reversal of the Lake Elsinore 56-year-old's parole.For reasons known on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Newport Coast Squatters Featured in Weekly Hugged by OC Judge

    ​The jobless couple who brazenly took over an empty multimillion-dollar, oceanview Newport Coast home, pretended it was theirs and mocked the Newport Beach Police Department have acknowledged criminal conduct in exchange for a sweetheart deal from Orange County's most notorious judge: Robert R. Fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    What We Learned, Jan. 6-Jan. 13

    ​Jan. 6: We obtain a screenshot of Jeremy Popoff's Facebook page, on which he claims he hasn't avoided calls from the Weekly, that we committed journalistic malpractice by "twisting [his] words" and that our man Brandon Ferguson should masturbate rather than try to ask him questions. Can't argue w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Sloane Steven Briles Cuts Deal to Avoid Jail for Tossing 7-year-old Son Off Harbor Cruise Boat

    ​Over the objections of prosecutors, Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzgerald today sentenced Sloane Steven Briles to three years probation, a year in a child abusers treatment program and 180 days in a Veterans Administration residential treatment program for throwing his 7-year-old ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Omaima Aree Nelson, Who Killed, Chopped Up, Cooked and Ate Husband of 2 Months, Seeks Parole

    ​How could I forget that Thanksgiving weekend 1991 rampage? Egyptian-born model and 24-year-old nanny Omaima Aree Nelson bludgeoned, skinned and chopped up her husband of two months--and twice her age--in their Costa Mesa apartment. With her olive skin, slender form and impeccably dressed in red h ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2010

    OC's Scariest People

    Crypt from the headlines, here are our annual 31 flavors of fiendishness

  • 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

    November 5, 2009

    It's All in the Family for Convicted Children's Shelter Embezzler

    Courtesy of Orange County District AttorneyTracy Lynn Salcido, before the tears.​Tracy Lynn Salcido, the former Orangewood Children's Foundation chief financial officer convicted of having stolen more than $780,000 in donations from the nonprofit, was sentenced to 12 years in state prison and orde ... 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 >>

  • Features

    July 17, 2008

    When Gunner Jay Lindberg Killed Thien Minh Ly, Was It Actually a Hate Crime?

    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

  • Columns

    January 5, 2006

    Letters

    "Dogs Dont Lie . . . People Do."

  • 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

  • Columns

    August 20, 1998

    The Kids Aren't All All Right

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

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