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County residents are showing up to courtrooms to watch criminal case hearings and keep an eye out for misconduct, like prosecutors failing to hand over evidence that could help defendants.
The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court by two longtime employees in the county Assessor’s Office, alleges they were fired for reporting numerous illegal acts within the agency, is likely to head to a jury trial in October.
County Supervisor Shawn Nelson, who surprised many in February by filing paperwork to run for a Superior Court judgeship, is no longer a candidate in the June primary.
Son Truong Nguyen was convicted and sentenced Friday afternoon for laundering $13,300 in campaign contributions for Republican State Sen. Janet Nguyen’s 2012 campaign for county supervisor.
Supervisors Tuesday discussed in closed session the possibility of the U.S. Justice Department investigating alleged misconduct by prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies involving evidence gleaned from jailhouse informants.
A court hearing to consider a temporary restraining order on a video showing Santa Ana police officers misbehaving during a raid of a marijuana dispensary was continued to next Thursday to give attorneys for the city of Santa Ana more time to respond.
The upcoming re-election of a Superior Court judge has taken an uncommon twist, after a county prosecutor jumped into the race – and picked up a major endorsement from her colleagues.
Attorneys for admitted double murderer Daniel Patrick Wozniak say deputies and producers of MSNBC show violated his rights.
Legal scholars, including UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, say conflicts prevent the attorney general’s office from adequately investigating prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
Attorneys publicly accused supervisors of trying to hijack the judicial process with their high-profile attacks on a judge who reduced the sentence of a 19-year-old man convicted of sodomizing a toddler.