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Photos courtesy pool photographer: Mark Boster, L.A. TimesOn May 20, Joseph G. Cavallo–one of the nine lawyers for three teenagers charged with videotaping themselves gang rape an unconscious 16-year-old–prepared Judge Francisco Briseno's courtroom for what the defense had billed as its “Perry Mason moment.” A full-time audio-visual specialist for the defense pushed aside the prosecutor's …
Photo courtesy pool photographer: Mark Boster, L.A. TimesDuring the first four days of People v. Haidl et al., Prosecutor Dan Hess methodically built his case against three teenagers who videotaped themselves allegedly gang raping and molesting an unconscious 16-year-old girl on a garage pool table. He'd presented witnesses who accidentally found the tape and were …
Photo by James BunoanFor 22 months, accused rapist Gregory Scott Haidl remained silent, letting defense lawyers—and, once, his middle finger—speak for him about his role in the videotaped gangbang of an unconscious minor. But on the eve of Orange County's most sensational teen-sex-crimes trials, Haidl appeared on an April 21 national news broadcast and spoke …
Illustration by Kathyrn HyattIf Newport Beach tycoon Donald Bren never made another dollar, he could blow $33 million every month for the next decade and still have a fortune. As a confidante to mayors, governors, congressmen, attorneys general and presidents, the Irvine Co. boss is a man connected without rival. Republican and Democrat politicians offer …
Photo by James BunoanIn Orange County's sensational teenage gang rape case, defense lawyers for Gregory Scott Haidl have said they know the real villain: the alleged victim. Gearing up for next month's trial, Haidl lawyer Joseph G. Cavallo claimed in a bombshell March 15 motion that the girl, then 16, was entirely responsible for the …
Less than two weeks after OC Weekly revealed Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo's role in a possible kickback scheme, he was fired from his $135,000-per-year post and the FBI raided his office. It was an ugly fall for the cocky 43-year-old who'd risen from an undistinguished career in the Garden Grove Police Department and parlayed a …
Photo by James Bunoan State Senator Joe Dunn, Santa Ana's very fine Democrat, is always getting funky and bipartisan with the local Republicans. They, of course, almost never return the favor. We've seen him before, meandering around the GOP election night spectacle at the Sutton Place Hotel, smiling, coming into the enemy's camp just to …
Photo by James BunoanDon Haidl is like most dads, except that he's an assistant sheriff and his 18-year-old son is accused of participating in a 2002 videotaped gang rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl on a pool table in Haidl's Corona del Mar home. At each of his son's preliminary hearings, Haidl sits in the …
A bombshell audio recording reveals police suppressed evidence that Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl's teenage son was caught smoking marijuana while awaiting trial on charges he participated in a 2002 videotaped gang rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl. Official records show that Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo secretly ordered Sgt. Richard Downing to bury evidence of Gregory …
Illustration by Bob AulThe howls you heard saturday morning while driving through Buena Park? That was the sound of 50 Democratic activists meeting at a nearby AFL-CIO hall days after staggering Republican victories over Governor Gray Davis and Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante. The meeting began, as California Democratic summits do, with complaints about conservative control …
Photo by Jack GouldArnold Schwarzenegger crushed everyone Tuesday—Governor Gray Davis, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, the Democratic Party, 134 other candidates, the right wing of the Republican Party, the Left, the media and Gloria Allred. But before Republican strategists rewrite the history of the first successful recall of a California governor, let's set the record …
Three weeks before the Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election, state Senator Tom McClintock stood outside the Irvine Transportation Center and told reporters why he should replace Governor Gray Davis. Standing at a makeshift podium, his demeanor seemed, if possible, simultaneously nonchalant and stiff. He looked—there's no other way to put it—comfortable being uncomfortable. He makes …