“It appears your life is just one unfair trial . . .”
–Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard F. Toohey to an unhappy Karim Tambousie Kidd, a serial shoplifter and convicted felon. Kidd complained that his 2009 trial for his seventh known crime spree was unfair. The 30-year-old man specialized in entering department stores, grabbing a piece of luggage, loading it with items and brazenly walking out without paying. He was foiled because he hit the same store twice in 10 days and found himself handcuffed by security. The DA's office didn't believe his story: Store security framed him by stealing $600 in cash he says he carried. The cost of this shopping trip? Six years in a California prison. Last week, a court of appeal called Kidd's whining baseless.
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.