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Eric Neff’s tenure at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office ended after he was placed on administrative leave in 2022 over accusations of misconduct in the prosecution…
Read more Trump’s DOJ hires voting rights lawyer behind L.A. case cited by conspiracy theoristsA judge resentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez to 50 years to life in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents, ruling Tuesday the brothers will be eligible…
Read more Menendez brothers resentenced to 50 years to life, opening the door for possible parole, judge rulesWith two days left before election day, a new poll shows Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón has cut slightly into challenger Nathan Hochman’s lead in the…
Read more Gascón still trails Hochman by wide margin in L.A. D.A. race, poll showsL.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón announced that he would make a decision on the possible resentencing of the Menendez brothers by the end of the week. Erik…
Read more D.A. says he will make decision on Menendez brothers by week’s endA mother from Porter Ranch has been charged with murder in the death of her 3-month-old baby, authorities said Friday. Jalyn Simone SmithJermott, 21, faces one count of…
Read more L.A. mom charged with murder in death of her 3-month-old babyOne legal expert called it “kind of bunk.” Another said it simply raises more questions than it answers. But two months after state prosecutors announced 11 felony charges…
Read more ‘Kind of bunk’: A closer look at the controversial case against a top L.A. D.A. officialLos Angeles County prosecutors charged a 40-year-old man with sexually assaulting two women in his van in a secluded part of the Angeles National Forest earlier this week.…
Read more Man charged with sexual assault of two women in Angeles National ForestA Los Angeles Police Department detective has been charged with hit-and-run exactly one year after she allegedly rear-ended another vehicle on the 5 Freeway while off-duty. Prosecutors allege…
Read more LAPD detective charged with hit-and-run after off-duty crash on 5 FreewayLos Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón is expected to advance to a November runoff, but it’s too early to tell who his challenger will be. While polls…
Read more Gascón faces off against 11 challengers in hotly contested L.A. D.A. raceLos Angeles police have launched a search for a killer suspected of fatally shooting three homeless people in separate incidents around the city, police officials announced Friday. All…
Read more Los Angeles police searching for assailant in three fatal shootings of homeless peopleFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis lambasted L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón during a Thursday night Fox News debate with Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a spat over crime in…
Read more DeSantis slams L.A. County D.A. George Gascón in debate with NewsomTwo armed men in masks charged at Vince Ricci just as he was walking to his front door, one pointing a handgun at his chest. Video shows Ricci…
Read more Under attack at his home, he fired his concealed handgun. So why was his gun permit suspended?The man behind the wheel in a horrific wrong-way crash outside an L.A. County Sheriff’s Department training facility, which left one person dead, has been charged with manslaughter,…
Read more Driver charged in 2022 wrong-way crash that killed and injured L.A. County sheriff’s recruitsHannah Tubbs — whose prosecution on sexual assault charges in 2021 marked one of the biggest controversies of L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s first term — pleaded…
Read more Woman at center of Gascón juvenile sentencing controversy takes plea deal in Kern County killingLos Angeles County prosecutors charged the owners of a popular old-school Catalina Island diner and pizza restaurant with withholding over a half a million dollars in wages from…
Read more Catalina Island diner owners underpaid workers, required 18-hour days, D.A. saysLOS ANGELES, February 27, 2020 (Newswire.com) – The following is an open letter from Liberals Against Gascón, a social media page founded by Chris Bucchere. Democrat George Gascón…
Read more Letter: ‘George Gascón is Unfit for the Office of Los Angeles District Attorney’
