The California Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by the infamous Haidl Gang Rapists to overturn the court order that requires them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
It was an anti-climatic ruling given that Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno, the man who sentenced the defendants after their 2006 convictions, has never been prone to shoddy moves and that three state appellate justices easily discarded the defendant’s complaints earlier this year.
Gregory Haidl, Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann served half of their six-year prison sentences, got out and then appealed their convictions largely by re-blaming the victim in the case.
It was perhaps the final shameless act by three young men who in July 2002 got a 16-year-old girl drunk, stripped her and then–as she fell into an obvious stupor–recorded themselves in various sex acts in a Corona del Mar garage. They even laughed as they repeatedly plunged a Snapple bottle, apple juice can, lit cigarette and pool stick into the girl’s vagina and anus.
Newport Beach police detectives eventually obtained the recording and first thought the men had had sex with a corpse.
Earlier this year, Nachreiner–the hot head of the three–gave an exclusive interview to the OC Register. He said he has no regrets for his conduct because of his contempt of the girl. He even presented himself as the victim in the case.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.