Recent Posts in Conviction Category
Posted on May 10, 2012 By admin
A Santa Ana, California gang member was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his part in the 2010 death of a 16-year-old who was shot in the back as he fled semiautomatic gunfire, according ...
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Posted on May 1, 2012 By admin
In many cases, our criminal justice system is pronouncing people guilty without evidence, lawyers, or a chance to plead their case. People across the United States plead guilty to crimes they did not ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 By admin
California Gov. Jerry Brown commuted the prison sentence of a 51-year-old woman convicted of shaking her infant grandson to death 15 years ago, citing significant doubts about her guilt. Shirley Ree ...
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Posted on Mar 17, 2012 By admin
A North Hollywood, California man was sentenced to 64 months in a federal prison for submitting a false loan application, obtaining a credit card in somebody else's name and running up charges on ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2012 By admin
A former California Highway Patrol officer whose tearful testimony of self-defense failed to sway a jury was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for murder of her husband. Tomiekia Johnson cried ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2012 By admin
An Orange County, California gang member was convicted of special circumstances murder of a man during a botched drug sale . According to the Orange County district attorney's office, Robert Reil, ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2012 By admin
A former sailor was sentenced to 21 years in a California state prison after pleading guilty to four counts of felony child abuse in the death of his 3-month-old stepdaughter. The sailor's wife ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By admin
A Westlake Village, California man was sentenced to 21 years in a California state prison prison for fatally shooting an instructor from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design during a Persian ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2012 By admin
A woman was sentenced to 14 years in a California state prison for her role in recruiting a gang member to kill her co-worker's brother in an Orange County murder-for-hire conspiracy. Edelmira ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2011 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that Jose Alberto Marquez was sentenced to life in prison, based on his federal jury trial conviction for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of ...
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Posted on May 2, 2011 By admin
Nathan Parada was charged with a felony count of attempted residential burglary and was convicted for trying to break into the home of Paris Hilton in 2010. He could face up to 3 years in state prison ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By admin
A Los Angeles woman pleaded guilty to using fraudulent medical clinics and stolen identities of physicians to defraud Medicare of more than $6.2 million. This guilty plea was announced by the ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By admin
A Canadian woman convicted of mail fraud targeting elderly victims is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Los Angeles, California. Carrie Elizabeth Hope, from the Canadian province of ...
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Posted on Feb 25, 2011 By admin
A 20-year-old man will serve 12 years in a California state prison for striking a teenager in the head with a baseball bat in South Pasadena, leaving the victim with severe brain damage. Elijah ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2011 By admin
A Los Angeles man was sentenced to 54 years to life in a California prison for the attempted murder of a Laguna Niguel marijuana dispensary owner during a botched armed robbery in 2008. Arsenio ...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2010 By admin
A Lancaster man was convicted of attempted murder and faces up to life in prison for attacking a moviegoer with a digital thermometer. A jury convicted Landry Boullard, of premeditated attempted ...
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