A California Court of Appeal today reversed an Orange County Superior Court judge’s ruling that blocked a class-action lawsuit against Bayer AG for allegedly violating state consumer prohibitions on misleading packaging for the company’s One A Day Gummies, a vitamin supplement. In its 28-page ruling, a three-justice panel—William Bedsworth, Kathleen O’Leary and Richard Aronson—reasoned that […]
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Diane Harkey Campaigns for Congress on Ethics Platform While Her Husband is Labeled a Swindler
The California Court of Appeal has affirmed a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme judgment against the husband of Orange County Republican congressional candidate Diane Harkey, who is hoping to defeat her Democratic Party opponent, Mike Levin, in November’s general election. Dan Harkey had urged the appellate panel to overturn the jury’s findings that he breached his fiduciary […]
Appeals Court Allows Retaliation Against Judge Who Opposed DA Cheating
Late on June 25, a divided three-justice panel at the California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana upheld the right of the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) to blanket paper a judge who punished law enforcement for repeatedly cheating. The controversy stems from Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals’ historic rulings in People v. Scott Dekraai, a pending […]
Santa Ana Pedophile: Police Unfairly Tricked A Confession About Boy Rape
For several months leading up to early 2010, a woman on her way to work routinely dropped off her three children at her sister's house in Santa Ana where she assumed they would be safe. One day in February, one of the kids, an eight-year-old boy, told his mother that he had been repeatedly sodomized […]
OC Youth Sports Coach & Serial Child Molester: My Punishment is Cruel
As a youth sports coach, Cameron Joseph Baca liked to befriend South Orange County moms and dads as a way to get close to their male children and then sexually abuse the youngsters. Baca was brazenly good at his crimes. Without parents suspecting, he managed to separately abuse at least three boys–ages 11, 12 and […]
Disgusting OC Child Molester Wins Conviction Reversal
Those loud screams of joy you might have heard this week from inside a cell at California State Prison at Lancaster belonged Orange County's Jorge Cruz Adan Flores, a disgusting child molester. In 2006, Flores sodomized and orally copulated a child under the age of 10. He denied the charges, but following the work of […]
Judge Frank F. Fasel Slammed By Appellate Court For Illegal Sentencing of OC Meth Dealer
For eons, Orange County Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel has run his courtroom with military precision and zero tolerance for cheap antics or insubordination. Who knew Fasel–who has an ideal, stern poker face and the demeanor of an overworked mortician–is also a rule breaker? This month, a California Court of Appeal based in Santa […]
One Gift A Niece Doesn't Want From Her Uncle: Incest
Jasinto Duran Meneses isn't happy that Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard M. King gave him a 15-years-to-life prison sentence. His crime, Meneses said, wasn't as disturbing as King or county prosecutors alleged. Besides, he had been intoxicated and he hadn't intended to inflict great bodily harm on his own niece, he argued. But it […]