Crime clues occasionally appear at the most unexpected of times and places, which in one particular case isn’t good news for Bruce Houlihan, director of the Orange County Crime Lab. In part of my research to write a recent cover story related to the Golden State Killer’s ties to Orange County, I read Michelle McNamara’s […]
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Garden Grove Police Sued in Little Saigon Gaming Raid Case
The Los Angeles based owners of 57 gaming machines seized in March by Garden Grove police and California Department of Justice is suing authorities in Orange County Superior Court for the return of the equipment. Attorneys for Intelligame, LLC. claim in an April 28 complaint that the cops had no right to take the machines […]
OC's Judicial Vaudeville Act Wins Recognition Again
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 not ready to retire his dismal act. Fitzgerald convinced Ronald William Foster, a 51-year-old […]
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 responsibility to make that [injustice] right,” Spitzer (pictured) […]
