William Bedsworth

Orange County Killer, 14, Calls His 40-Year Punishment Cruel & Unusual

In June 2010, Buena Park mobile home resident Andrew Cervantes (AKA "Tank") aged four years in an instant when--at the age of 14 and in the eighth grade--he paused a Santa Ana bicycle ride to buy candy to ask another teenage hoodlum, Manual Orozco, a gang-world question: "Where you from?" Cerva ... More >>

Meet Orange County's Horrible Mommie Dearest

Social workers and cops in Orange County weren't sure what to make of claims by a five-year-old girl named Diane that she and Tiffany, her two-year-old sister, were beaten by their mother with kitchen utensils.But nine years later in October 2011, there was no confusion about the trouble when t ... More >>

Sister Blocks Dead Brother's Wishes For His Gay Partner

A California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana ruled this week that an Orange County Superior Court judge improperly sided against a gay man seeking assets from his deceased partner's estate.Before he died in October 2010, James Humpert promised Richard Allen--his longtime, loving partner--that he ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Gallo Conviction Upheld in DUI Deaths of Angel Nick Adenhart, 2 Others

The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana has upheld the conviction and sentence of Andrew Thomas Gallo, the San Gabriel drunken driver who was sent to prison for 51 years to life for causing the crash that took the lives of Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others.A panel of three jus ... More >>

Orange County Wife Beater Upset Federal Officials Deported Him To South Korea

South Korean Paul Hyunpyo Lee pleaded guilty in 2004 to committing felonies and misdemeanors involving wife beating, child abuse, criminal threats and drug possession in exchange for a sweetheart deal inside Orange County Superior Court.Judge M. Marc Kelly could have sentenced Lee to four years and ... More >>

Garden Grove Prostitute Killer Filed A Hopeless Conviction Appeal

In 2011, an Orange County jury agreed with prosecutor Cameron Talley's assertion that convicted felon Cesar Gomez savagely beat, robbed and strangled to death a female prostitute inside her room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Garden Garden.In February, Superior Court Judge William R. Froeberg gav ... 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Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary S. Paer read an outdated jury instruction at the conclusion of Anthony Michael Vega's trial for a 2008 kidnapping and home invasion robbery in La Habra and the Commerce man got sent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 >>

Anaheim's "Chump Change" Del Taco Bandit: Yes, I Stabbed The Manager Eight Times But I Wasn't Trying To Kill Her

Jose Joaquin Guzman rode his bicycle to a Del Taco in Anaheim like he'd done many times before to eat but one night he wanted money.Guzman walked in the fast food restaurant's rear entrance and saw no customers. Edith, the manager, was wiping tables clean. She recognized him, said hello and continue ... More >>

California Judges Squelch Piano Store Manager's $6.8 Million Thief Lyrics

Russell Eugene Dunbar must have loved working as office manager and controller at Fields Pianos in Santa Ana.In addition to his salary, Dunbar concocted a scheme to steal a whopping $6.8 million in company revenues during a three-year period that ended in 2005, according to court records.After his d ... More >>

OC Man: 11-Year-Old Cousin Initiated Heated Sexual Affair

Convicted of horrible sex crimes, Filberto Morales Matus is presently serving a prison sentence in Ironwood State Prison at Blythe, but he believes he's incarcerated because of a mistake.R. Clayton Seaman, Jr,, a lawyer representing Matus argues that veteran Superior Court Judge Carla M. Singer botc ... More >>

OC Pedophile Wants To Change His Guilty Plea

​Orange County's Javier Juarez is a sick pedophile who repeatedly molested a child under the age of 14 during a four-year period and pleaded guilty in 2011 for his crimes.But after willingly signing the plea for Superior Court Judge James Edward Rogan, Juarez changed his mind and sought to rescind ... More >>

Newport Coast Offers Stunning Ocean Views and an Arsenic Mystery

[Moxley Confidential] Wealthy mother Anna D. Steiner, who complained about the poisoning of her children, finds herself in a police-state nightmare

Did a Disneyland-area Hotel Burglar Receive Excessive Punishment?

​While they enjoy Anaheim's world famous theme park, Disneyland visitors no longer must worry that their hotel rooms will be burglarized by relentless, serial thief John Lake. Lake, who insisted on representing himself at his jury trial, is now living in a prison and he's not happy about his treat ... 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 >>

Timothy J. Donahue, Orange Lawyer, Slapped with $10,000 Sanction for Recycling His Work

​A California appellate justice in Santa Ana slapped an Orange attorney with a scathing opinion and $10,000 in sanctions Tuesday for essentially failing to do his homework.Talk about the wrong reaction: the lawyer in question responded back that Justice William Bedsworth of the Fourth District Co ... More >>

Imade A. Jati, Daddy Rapist: But I Was Careful Not To Get My Daughter Pregnant

​Imade A. Jati didn't know that the call from his daughter was being recorded or that the questions he was being asked had been written by Matt Ricci, a veteran Irvine police detective.So, when the high school senior asked her father if he'd promise never to have sex with her again, he replied, "A ... 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 >>

Dumbest Drug Case Appeal in California History?

Dickson​Anthony Dickson didn't argue that police in Orange County stopped him for a traffic violation in December 2009 and found cocaine.Dickson, who was on parole for drug crimes at the time, didn't even argue that the cocaine wasn't his.But he still claimed that he shouldn't have been convicted ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

California Pervert Guilty For Cyber Sex "Touching" of Fake 13-year-old Girl

Stillittano: Webcam superstar​Can you imagine the shock on Jeffrey Andrew Stillittano's face when he learned that he'd jacked off three times in two days on his webcam for Jamie, a 13-year-old girl who was, in fact, a fictitious character being played by undercover vice squad cops at the Anaheim p ... More >>

The Mother, Her Teen Lover and Their Baby

[Moxley Confidential] Appeals court rejects decision to give custody of an infant to a 10th grader

Nativo Lopez Cries 'Racist,' Appeals Court Cries 'Defamation'

[Moxley Confidential] Split decision in Overhill Farms case has chilling free-speech implications, dissenting justice asserts

Nativo Lopez Slammed by Court For Calling Frozen Food Company "Racist"

Nativo Lopez​Nativo Lopez, Orange County's most controversial political activist, helped organize a 2009 protest against a Southern California frozen food company and distributed leaflets branding the business a "racist employer" because it fired almost 300 warehouse workers who'd provided fake So ... More >>

A Stunner From Sheriff Hutchens

[Moxley Confidential] Documents reveal she found a deputy Taser incident to be absolutely shocking

Court Hands Victory To Proposed Stanton Strip Club

Failed conspiracy?​A California court of appeal has handed a proposed Stanton strip club a victory over city officials and a Christian church which a three-justice panel decided had conspired to block the adult business from gaining a license to operate a no-booze, nude female dance club.According ... More >>

The Case of the Angry Candy Eater, No Really

Now legally delicious​The Santa Ana-based California Court of Appeal today  affirmed an Orange County judge's decision to throw out a case against General Mills by a consumer upset about the company's marketing ploy for its candy, or what is nowadays called "fruit snacks."A three-justice pane ... More >>

Serial Pedophile Who Bought 5-Year-Old Vietnamese Sex Slave is Up For Parole

England wants freedom but hasn't admitted his sick sex crimes​A convicted California serial pedophile who despises Jews, cops and African Americans and who forced a kindergarten-age girl he purchased in Vietnam to become a sex slave to not only himself but also his German shepherd and basset hound ... More >>

Citizen of the Week!

Coto de Caza residential weed picker Raul Salvador Marin wanted to tell the petite 20-year-old at a June 2004 Trabuco Canyon patio party that she was "a really pretty girl, white, young," but he didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish. The woman wasn't interested in Marin anyway. She spur ... More >>

Citizen of the Week!

In August 2006, two Orange County men—James McGuinn and Paul Tu—drove together in the carpool lane of the southbound Interstate 405 when a habitual criminal driving a Chevy Blazer rear-ended them at 35 mph. Though damage was minimal to McGuinn’s Ford Explorer, Jamar Wendell Rivers—the Chevy ... More >>

Badgering and Blunders

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

Global Warming Proof: People Stupider

Justice William W. Bedsworth makes a compelling case--and he doesn't put . . . yah . . . tah . . . sleep . . . like . . . Al . . . Gore.

A Day in the Park With Hitler

Justice Takes a Beating

OC court greenlights torture in local jails