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March 27, 2013
USC Expert David Cruz Predicts Prop. 8 Supreme Court Decision is Unlikely to Make History
Updated at the bottom: David Cruz provides new details of his views. First posted Tuesday afternoon. David Cruz, an expert on civil rights and constitutional law, made his way from USC to D.C. to observe the oral arguments on California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage this morning. In a packed ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2013
Henry Rollins: Our Constitutional Rights Require Constant Vigilance
[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Hardcore Nostalgia in Washington D.C. "If destruction be our lot, we ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2013
Married Gay Men Live Longer, U.S. Supreme Court Should Read Danish Study
So apparently gay married guys live longer than unmarried or divorced men. That's what Danish researchers recently found after going through decades of statistics, and something conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas should consider when ruling i ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2013
Richard Bradford, Murder Parolee, Ran Drug Rehab Center Endorsed By Mayor Villaraigosa
A murder convict on parole who's been off the radar since 1980 was arrested in Monrovia over the weekend, state officials announced today. And what has Richard Bradford been up to? According to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), he's been running "a high-end drug rehabil ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2013
Amoeba's Vinyl Vault: Treasure Trove or Legal Sticky Wicket?
While the corpses of corporate music retail chains litter strip malls where outlets like Tower Records and Blockbuster Music once stood, Amoeba Music is an independent juggernaut with three California-based stores the size of supermarkets. They've been a destinations for music aficionados for more t ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013
Ali Syed: Four Dead In Orange County Road Rampage
Updated at the bottom with the suspected shooter's identity. Headline has changed. First posted at 11:59 p.m. A man went on a shooting rampage in Orange County today, resulting in four dead and at least two wounded, authorities said. It's not immediately clear what motivated the attacks, which sta ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2013
Christopher Dorner Gets No-Bail Warrant, Death-Penalty Eligible Murder Charges
Christopher Dorner is officially a man with a no-bail murder warrant over his head. That after the Riverside County District Attorney's office today charged him with murder and attempted murder following his alleged fatal ambush of a Riverside cop and shootings involving that officer's partner and ... More >>
News
January 24, 2013
How Debt Collectors Get Away With Terrorizing Consumers -- With the Blessing of Public Officials
Thanks to a congressional loophole, local prosecutors actually hire private firms to harass citizens
Blogs
January 23, 2013
Will Cardinal Roger Mahony Face Charges for Sex Abuse Cover Up? SNAP says Yes
On the front page of this morning's Los Angeles Times, the paper notes that several legal experts suspect Cardinal Roger Mahony will not face criminal charges for covering up clergy sex abuse due to the statute of limitations. One advocacy group says those experts have it wrong. "We aren't police, ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2013
AK-47 Bandit Is One Scary Bank Robber
The scariest bank robber ever? The FBI is turning up the heat on the so-called AK-47 Bandit, who has targeted, among other banks in the Western United States, a SoCal California Bank & Trust. Not only that, but the AK isn't fake. He pulled the trigger and injured a police officer, feds say:
Blogs
January 7, 2013
Would You Buy Art Created by a Serial Killer?
Ever wanted to buy a half-eaten bag of Reese's Pieces, owned by Charles Manson? Well, for $425 they're yours, from a black market in serial killer memorabilia that has sprung up online. Now you can log on and buy charming watercolor paintings by child killers and hand-written letters from cannibals ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2013
Sons of Anarchy Meets Mad Men in Danny Lyon's Classic Biker Portraits
"Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders" at Duncan Miller Gallery's Bergamot Station location is one of the most engaging -- and surprising -- photography shows of the past year. Featuring 50 prints from Lyon's landmark 1968 book of the same name, "The Bikeriders" documents four years, 1963-67, during which the ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2012
Why Does Everyone in L.A. Drive Drunk All the Time?
Car culture was the last element I embraced in my new life as an Angeleno. The first few months I lived here, filling my gas tank made me physically ill. The cost! The fossil fuels! The hours spent in traffic! I may have cried about it once or twice, alone in my sad sublet behind one of Silver Lake' ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2012
Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday
'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:
Blogs
December 10, 2012
Albert Abrams' Child Porn Nets 7 Years Behind Bars For Ex-L.A. Neighborhood Councils Chief
More information added at the bottom. Albert Abrams, the former neighborhood councils chief at L.A. City Hall who once admitted he "was watching myself from a distance watching" child porn, was sentenced to 7 years behind bars today. He faced five counts of distributing child pornography, two coun ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2012
Graffiti Crew MTA's Gang Injunction Is For Real
The L.A. City Attorney's office has officially pioneered using a gang injunction against graffiti artists it says are tagging up public property. This legal tool allows prosecutors to bust gangsters just for being gangsters, essentially. Now taggers who crew-up can also be callared just for hangin ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2012
Proposition 34: Campaign to Repeal the Death Penalty is Gaining Traction According to Poll
Good news today for supporters of Proposition 34, the initiative that would end executions in California and see the sentences of the state's 725 death row inmates automatically commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. According to a Field Poll released this morning, for first ... More >>
News
November 1, 2012
Proposition 36 Three Strikes
In South L.A., former prisoners hope voters will soften law
News
October 18, 2012
Friends Wrongfully Imprisoned for Nearly Two Decades — Until the Innocence Project Won Their Freedom
Imprisoned nearly two decades for murder, it took another brutal slaying to free them
Blogs
October 3, 2012
Beverly Hills Murder Trial: Scott Barker Found Guilty of Murdering Tony Takazato
For the in-depth story about the Beverly Hills murder, read the L.A. Weekly story "Did Scott Barker Knife Rich Kid Tony Takazato to Save His Girlfriend From Prostitution?" On Tuesday, October 2, in less than a day of deliberating, the 12-member jury agreed on a verdict: Scott Joseph Barker, a 25-ye ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Beverly Hills Murder Trial: Alleged Murderer Scott Barker Looks Cocky as Jury Listens to Closing Arguments and Considers His Fate
For the in-depth story about the Beverly Hills murder, read the L.A. Weekly story "Did Scott Barker Knife Rich Kid Tony Takazato to Save His Girlfriend From Prostitution?" On the last day of his trial, alleged murderer Scott Barker, a 25-year-old wannabe screenwriter and actor who carried himself i ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Richard Alarcon Faces Perjury Trial Over Squatter House Saga
They say when you buy a vintage car, you don't want one with a "story." You know -- if it requires too much explanation, there's trouble ahead. And frankly, Richard Alarcon's story about the Panorama City house he was supposed to be living in to qualify for his City Council district election is one ... More >>
News
September 13, 2012
Did Scott Barker Knife Rich Kid Tony Takazato to Save His Girlfriend from Prostitution?
They say when you buy a vintage car, you don't want one with a "story." You know -- if it requires too much explanation, there's trouble ahead. And frankly, Richard Alarcon's story about the Panorama City house he was supposed to be living in to qualify for his City Council district election is one ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2012
Jackie Lacey Wins Key Police Endorsements In Race For D.A.
Jackie Lacey has already claimed an "insurmountable" polling advantage in the race for L.A. County District Attorney. Today, she added two key endorsements from the L.A. Police Protective League and the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs."This is a very important endorsement," Lacey said. "I ... More >>
Blogs
August 28, 2012
Mara Salvatrucha Gang Turf Targeted in Spate of Deadly Koreatown Area Shootings
Updated at the bottom with a report stating there's a gang truce. First posted at 7:07 a.m. Monday. A spate of gang-related shootings have broken out in and around Koreatown in recent months, most happening in a neighborhood known as the epicenter of the global El Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha gang. ... More >>
Blogs
July 18, 2012
Gunfire Erupts at Mayor's Anti-Gang Program 'Summer Night Lights' in Sun Valley; Two Shot
Amid proud statistics from the mayor's office on the effectiveness of his anti-gang program Summer Night Lights since it began five years ago, a shooting at the Sun Valley Park location has "set the bar back," a member of the neighborhood council tells the LA Daily News. Last Thursday night, a crow ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2012
VIDEO: Puppy Thief Steals $1,000 'Puggle' From South Pasadena Pet Store, Returns It One Week Later
Updated at the bottom: A detective tells us that the thief returned the puppy because his pastor told him to. Worst puppy heist ever. Or at least the most sheepish: South Pasadena cops say that only one week after 53-year-old L.A. resident Jesus Lopez Medina lifted a $1,000 "puggle" (pug plus beag ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2012
Gang Map Study Shows Crime Happens Along Borders Between Sets in L.A.
If you don't like being shot here in the city of L.A., the gang capital of the nation, the places to avoid are the boundaries between gangs (we have a map of some of the crimes after the jump). That seems to be one of the takeaways of a UCLA-led study published online this week in the journal Crimi ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2012
Lawsuit Alleges Hebrew National Products are Not Kosher
"We answer to a higher authority" is Hebrew National's slogan, but at least eleven consumers in Minnesota aren't so sure: The group is suing ConAgra Foods, Inc., the parent company of Hebrew National, alleging that Hebrew National's products are not kosher. According to Reuters, the lawsuit alleges ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2012
Abdul Arian: $120 Million Lawsuit Filed in Case of Teen Shot by LAPD on Live TV
That $120 million legal claim against the city in the case of Abdul Arian, a 19-year-old who was fatally shot on live television by LAPD officers in April, is now a $120 million lawsuit. This after the city rejected the claim. The suit, filed yesterday in L.A. Superior Court, comes after the famil ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2012
Carmen Trutanich Suffers Another Defeat, As Judge Tosses Criminal Charges In Supergraphics Case
For as long as he's been L.A. city attorney, Carmen Trutanich has been trying to throw Barry Rush in jail. Rush, owner of the firm World Wide Rush, was once one of the major installers of unpermitted supergraphics -- the giant vinyl signs that blanket the sides of buildings.Trutanich came into offic ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2012
Calvin Sneed, Compton 'Pimp,' Murdered by Parents of His Sex Slave, Says San Francisco DA
The parents of an 17-year-old runaway tracked down her Compton pimp and shot him dead in NorCal, says the San Francisco DA. Calvin Sneed, a 22-year-old member of the Nutty Blocc Crips (according to the LAPD), allegedly went back up north in early June to try to retrieve the girl, whom he'd been pim ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2012
Three Strikes? D.A. Candidate Jackie Lacey and the Teen Who Got Life for a Stolen Cell Phone
In 1997, 18-year-old Andre Wilks broke into a Nissan Maxima parked outside of a Target store in Granada Hills and stole a cell phone. The vehicle burglary qualified as a third strike for Wilks, who had been convicted in 1995 for a purse-snatching spree committed one week after he turned 16. If the ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Dorothee Burkhart, Mother of Accused Arsonist Harry Burkhart, Ordered to be Sent Back to Germany
Around New Year's Harry Burkhart went on an arson spree that terrorized Los Angeles, prosecutors say. And one of his reported motives was that his dear mother, a woman who ran an erotic massage business out of the same apartment building where the pair lived, was going to be extradited back to Germa ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2012
Bryan Barnes, Javier Bolden Catch Possible Death Penalty Case in USC Murders
Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19, were charged today with capital murder in connection with the shooting deaths of USC students Ming Qu and Ying Wu on the early rainy morning of April 11. The slayings, about a mile from campus, shocked the school and inspired the students' parents to sue USC ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Black Riders Liberation Party's General TACO Visited by Authorities After May Day Rally
Members of the Black Riders Liberation Party, self-described as the Black Panthers for the modern era, say their Watts headquarters was raided by authorities today in retaliation for the group's participation in Tuesday's raucous May Day rallies in L.A. A spokesman for the state parole agency says ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Pinkberry Co-Founder Young Lee Sued by Homeless Man, Donald Bolding, Who Says He Beat Him Over Sexy Tattoo
The homeless man allegedly beaten by Pinkberry co-founder Young Lee over a scintillating tattoo is suing the businessman. Prosecutors allege the 47-year-old froyo entrepreneur beat Donald Bolding with a tire iron on June 15 near the Vermont Avenue offramp of the 101 freeway in southeast Hollywood. ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Jamiel Shaw, L.A. Football Star, Murdered Over His Spider-Man Backpack, Says D.A.; Shaw's Gang Affiliation Won't Factor Into Trial
The trial for Pedro Espinoza, illegal immigrant accused of murdering 17-year-old footballer Jamiel Shaw Jr. in March 2008, finally got underway today. It's been highly politicized thus far -- delayed by raging controversies over Espinoza's undocumented status, Shaw's own gang affiliation and whethe ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Marquis Edwards, Bloods Gangster Known as 'Baby Uzi,' Convicted of Murdering Two Innocent Latinos in South L.A.
The Bishops Bloods gang is known for running the 52nd Street corridor on the Eastside of South L.A. Most of the set's beefs seem to involve other African American gangs that dwell in the LAPD's rough Newton Division, but for some reason a Blood named Baby Uzi opened fire on at least two Latinos who ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Blackjack With Pedophiles: Why Gambling on Our Ability to Stop Sex Offenders Isn't the Way to Go
By Dr. Paul Abramson and L.J. Williamson Riot Act is a semi-regular column that challenges conventional wisdom in controversial issues In 2008, a 35-year-old LAUSD teacher got one of his fifth-grade students alone in the classroom at lunchtime, and convinced the 10-year-old boy to masturbate him t ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2012
State Supreme Court Rules Employers Must Provide Meal Breaks, But You Must Take Them
If you're an hourly employee who works more than five hours a day, you are entitled to a 30-minute lunch break -- but, as the California Supreme Court just ruled, it's up to you to make sure you exercise your legal right to do so. The state Supreme Court's unanimous decision is a culmination of n ... More >>
Art+Books
April 12, 2012
What's a DUID (Driving While High) in California?
Weed lawyers Allison Margolin and Daniel Perlman explain the rules for drivers
Blogs
April 4, 2012
Kendrec McDade Wasn't the First: 6 More Controversial Police Shootings of Unarmed L.A. Black Men
As the investigation continues into 19-year-old Kendrec McDade's death by police gunfire on March 24, the scenario is looking worse and worse for the two Pasadena police officers who shot McDade. Last Saturday, at a tense community meeting near the crime scene, Pasadena Police Chief Philip Sanchez ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2012
Maria Hicks Gets Justice: Grandmother Murdered for Standing Up to Taggers Angel Chris Rojas and Cesar Lopez
Vicious taggers in 2007 murdered Maria Hicks, a beloved grandmother and neighbor in Pico Rivera, for committing the insult of flashing her headlights at one of them to stop him as he scrawled graffiti on a wall in her community. Today Norwalk Superior Court Judge Dewey Falcone sent that violent tagg ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
McDonald's Facing Two More Hot Coffee Lawsuits
Back a lifetime ago in 1994, McDonald's was sued over the temperature of its coffee when a woman accused the fast food chain of serving coffee so hot, it gave her third-degree burns when the cup spilled on her legs and groin. Now it's déjà vu all over again, as McDonald's is defending itself agai ... More >>
Blogs
February 29, 2012
Albert Abrams, City Hall's Ex-Neighborhood Councils Chief, Indicted, Arrested For Child Porn
Albert Abrams, the former chief of the L.A. Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, was arrested this morning by federal agents after he was indicted yesterday as part of a child-porn case, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The former president of the City of Los Angeles' Board of Neighborho ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
Cliff Shepard, LAPD Detective Who Helped Nab the Grim Sleeper, on the Cases He Cracked and the Ones That Got Away
Detective Cliff Shepard has served with the Los Angeles Police Department for 37 years and 13 days. He retires today, bringing to a close a career spent tracking and catching some of the most notorious serial killers in L.A.'s history. There was Rodney Acala, the handsome and charismatic UCLA gradu ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2012
Multiple People Shot at Hollywood Residence That Went Up in Flames
Updated at the bottom with the suspected shooter, a fourth victim found inside the house. First posted at 1:04 p.m. At least three people were shot at a residence in Hollywood that went up in flames, according to police and fire officials. Police were called to 517 N. Harvard Boulevard at 12:40 p. ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
L.A. Sheriff's Creepy New Facial-Recognition Software Matches Surveillance Video With Mug Shot Database
The Lancaster station of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department got a little help from Big Brother in cracking its latest robbery spree: Of three armed robberies in Lancaster over eight days, one of the incidents was caught on surveillance tape. So Sheriff's investigators entered "a clear image of th ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2012
Michelle Anderson, South L.A. 24-Year-Old, Shot Dead After Allegedly Being Lured From House Onto Sidewalk
A young woman from South Los Angeles was gunned down last night on a sidewalk near 87th Street and Denker Avenue. Police responders found 24-year-old Michelle Lorraine Anderson lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to her head -- yet mysteriously, nobody had seen the shooter, CBS LA reports. ... More >>
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