The sentencing of Daniel Patrick Wozniak, who was convicted last December of a grisly double-murder, will continue to drag on after more revelations of Orange County Sheriff’s deputies maintaining secret records on jailhouse snitches have surfaced in recent weeks.
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Immigrant-Rights Protesters Shut Down Meeting on Sheriff’s Controversial Policy
Activists showed up in force to a Wednesday meeting on the Orange County Sheriff’s Department policy of handing over jail inmates to federal immigration authorities.
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Testimony Reveals Secret ‘Blog’ Kept by Sheriff’s Deputies on Jail Snitches
Orange County sheriff’s deputies for years maintained a secret, “unauthorized” blog on jail informants that was withheld from defense attorneys, according to testimony Tuesday in the Daniel Patrick Wozniak double murder case.
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More Secret Records Come to Light in Snitch Scandal
New disclosures about Orange County sheriff’s deputies hiding another secret cache of records about jail informants is threatening to postpone the May 20 sentencing of convicted double-murderer Daniel Patrick Wozniak.
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Orange County Could Be Missing Out On Prop. 47 Money
While officials up and down the state are positioning themselves to take advantage of grant money aimed at helping newly released nonviolent drug offenders stay clean and out of jail, Orange County officials have been missing in action.
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Santa Ana to Obama: Protect Immigrants From ‘Needless Deportations’
The Santa Ana City Council this week unanimously approved a resolution calling on the president to stop the deportation of Samuel Sixtos-Gomez, a city resident turned over to immigration authorities in violation of the Trust Act.
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Rackauckas and Sanders Face Off in Forum
District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and public defender Scott Sanders battled each other over the revelations by Sanders regarding how DA prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies operated an informant network inside county jails.
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Goethals Issues Another Rebuke to Rackauckas in Informants Saga
The Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that District Attorney Tony Rackauckas’ team violated the constitutional rights of a man convicted of killing pregnant Fullerton woman by not disclosing information about an informant.
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Getting Out the Vote Behind Bars
Thousands of people in jails and on probation are being urged to vote following an obscure but potentially helpful legal ruling in 2012 in Riverside County, along with a change of heart in Sacramento.
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Deputies’ Union Sues County to Block Release of Labor Negotiation Records
A hearing is scheduled for Friday morning on whether to ban the release of records sought by conservative publisher Jon Fleischman.
