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Chris Vogel

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    May 22, 2012

    LA Weekly Nominated for Over 20 National, Regional Journalism Awards: Read the Stories That Got Us Here

    It's award season again for America's journalists, and LA Weekly is racking up the noms like a fat chick on Pinterest. On a national scale, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia just released its list of finalists for the annual AltWeeklies Awards, the most coveted alt-plaques around. At that Ju ... More >>

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    May 4, 2012

    Darts Update: Dino M. Zaffina Back on the Attack

    There are two things that any first-year law student could tell you are essential for courtroom success: don't make stuff up, and don't insult the judge. Perhaps Dino M. Zaffina didn't get the memo. As the Weekly's Chris Vogel first reported in February, Zaffina had become angry that the Southern ... More >>

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    March 29, 2012

    Life After Death

    There are two things that any first-year law student could tell you are essential for courtroom success: don't make stuff up, and don't insult the judge. Perhaps Dino M. Zaffina didn't get the memo. As the Weekly's Chris Vogel first reported in February, Zaffina had become angry that the Southern ... More >>

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    February 9, 2012

    Dino M. Zaffina Is Not Angry

    There are two things that any first-year law student could tell you are essential for courtroom success: don't make stuff up, and don't insult the judge. Perhaps Dino M. Zaffina didn't get the memo. As the Weekly's Chris Vogel first reported in February, Zaffina had become angry that the Southern ... More >>

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    December 28, 2011

    LA Weekly's Top 11 News Stories of 2011

    And here we thought 2010 was a sexy one for Los Angeles. Our most popular news stories in 2011 make last year's fare -- alleged John Travolta sightings at a gay spa, Vegas broads who sell sex to make rent -- look wholesome by comparison. Los Angeles was a blur of nude pics and racy murders these la ... More >>

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    December 15, 2011

    Descending Into Hell

    And here we thought 2010 was a sexy one for Los Angeles. Our most popular news stories in 2011 make last year's fare -- alleged John Travolta sightings at a gay spa, Vegas broads who sell sex to make rent -- look wholesome by comparison. Los Angeles was a blur of nude pics and racy murders these la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Is 'Teflon' L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca the Next Sheriff Joe Arpaio?

    A scowl worthy of Sheriff Joe?​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has become the posterboy of tough, rogue immigration policing in the age of Bush/Obama. (And don't think for a second that conditions have improved for America's huddled masses under the "HOPE" banner of the latter. In fact, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca's Jail Officials Didn't Report Allegedly Serious Inmate Assaults by Deputies to D.A.

    888bailbond​If you thought that cops have a different justice system than the rest of us, that they can be, indeed, above the law when faced with serious allegations of their own, this story might prove you right. The Los Angeles Times reported today that despite serious allegations of assaul ... More >>

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    October 13, 2011

    Shawne Fletcher, L.A. County Jail Inmate, Sues Sheriff Lee Baca for Another Brutal Beating

    Courtesy of Dawn FletcherShawn, after the beating.​Allegations of abuse have been raining down on the L.A. County Sheriff's Department since springtime. LA Weekly writer Chris Vogel's "Men's County Jail Visitor Viciously Beaten by Guards" opened the floodgates for more testimonies, and lawsuit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Deputies Made up Good Excuses, Got Away With Beatings in Lee Baca's Jails -- Report

    "County."​If Sheriff Lee Baca thought the controversy over L.A. County Jail inmate beatings at the hands of his deputies was going to go away quietly, he better think again. Yesterday we told you how Baca, for the first time, it seems, struck a conciliatory tone by saying he would meet with t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Best Posts of the Week

    This week Weekly staffers Chris Vogel and Simone Wilson broke revelations from the new book Murder Rap, in which former LAPD detective Greg Kading cites testimony implicating Suge Knight in the death of Biggie Smalls and Diddy in the murder of Tupac. On our sister blog The Informer, Wilson also brou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Lee Baca is The Only Person in Town Who Hasn't Seen Deputies Beat Inmates, Apparently

    Turns out pretty much the only person in town who hasn't witnessed deputies beating inmates at L.A. County Jail is Sheriff Lee Baca, who has his attention focused on a cop who smuggled a cellphone into the lockup for FBI agents investigating said beat-downs. Maybe he should spend some time there. ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    Arson Cover-Up

    Turns out pretty much the only person in town who hasn't witnessed deputies beating inmates at L.A. County Jail is Sheriff Lee Baca, who has his attention focused on a cop who smuggled a cellphone into the lockup for FBI agents investigating said beat-downs. Maybe he should spend some time there. ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Abuse at L.A. County Jails

    Turns out pretty much the only person in town who hasn't witnessed deputies beating inmates at L.A. County Jail is Sheriff Lee Baca, who has his attention focused on a cop who smuggled a cellphone into the lockup for FBI agents investigating said beat-downs. Maybe he should spend some time there. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies Sued by Noel Bender, Palmdale Apartment Manager, for More Alleged Brutality

    Bad press keeps rolling in for county brass​More trouble for the increasingly scrutinized Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department today: City News Service reports that Palmdale apartment manager Noel Bender is suing the county and three sheriff's deputies for an alleged beating and wrongful ja ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2011

    Men's County Jail Visitor Viciously Beaten by Guards

    Sheriff Lee Baca says jail is unsupervisable and should be shut down

  • News

    May 26, 2011

    Prisoners Testify to Vicious Beatings at Hands of County Jailers

    Sheriff Lee Baca says jail is unsupervisable and should be shut down

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