It was unfair that my jury heard testimony from my half-sister who said I raped and sodomized her in the back seat of a car when she was 17 years old.
–Relmon Henry Davis' unsuccessful argument in hopes of overturning his convictions for using a 10-inch knife to demand that an Orange County girlfriend give him 20 minutes of oral copulation after he suspected her of cheating on him. Davis was also accused of beating the woman with sticks to get anal sex on multiple occasions. After a 2008 jury trial, a judge sentenced Davis, now 30 years old, to a term of 18 years to life in prison. Last week, a California court of appeal upheld the convictions.
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.