Robert Greene

The L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy who presented expert testimony in the excessive-force trial of former Inglewood Police Officer Jeremy Morse may just turn out to have been the star witness for both the prosecution and the defense. Sheriff’s Department Cmdr. Charles Heal, called to the stand last week as the......

It may be a case of too little, too late for Councilman Jack Weiss’ attempt to get his colleagues to weigh in against the Gray Davis recall. The councilman vocally opposed a resolution in February against the invasion of Iraq as being outside the city’s jurisdiction, but last week he......

Could a fatal shooting like the one Wednesday in New York’s City Hall happen in Los Angeles? It could. Security at Los Angeles City Hall is an odd mixture of tight and lax, allowing friends of council members and anyone else in the know to reserve a spot in the......

The new City Council finally showed up for work on Friday. The five freshmen and 10 veterans had been meeting for two weeks, but it was getting hard to tell. For the most part, they looked like the old council — verbose, but in a quiet sort of way. Polite......

No one can say City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo isn’t a good sport. He accepted an invitation last week to celebrate the decision by his 400-strong lawyer-employees to join City Hall’s biggest and strongest union, Service Employees International Local 347. Delgadillo sought to put the best face on the decision to......

The appointment of former Los Angeles Times columnist and city editor Bill Boyarsky to the City Ethics Commission continues a recent trend of tapping well-known figures for the five-member political-watchdog panel. It was City Controller Laura Chick who selected Boyarsky, who regularly commented on candidates and City Hall affairs as......

L.A.’s City Hall starts a new two-year term Tuesday with four new members and, most likely, the same old president. Wendy Greuel on Friday dropped her challenge to Alex Padilla, but it won’t be business as usual for Padilla as he faces activist and impatient freshmen in Antonio Villaraigosa and......

The U.S. Supreme Court this week firmed up an individual’s defenses around what some have called the final frontier of personal privacy — the human mind — with a ruling that severely restricts the government’s ability to drug mentally ill defendants to render them fit to stand trial. But in......

Dan Koenig keeps an orderly desk. In one high-profile Parker Center posting after another, he’s exuded the image of the consummate LAPD administrator, his reports meticulously presented, his quarters as spotless as a dress uniform on inspection day. Now the ex-commander, who retired from the LAPD after a 33-year career,......

The usual glee that accompanies major court victories was clearly missing Tuesday after lawyers for uninsured Los Angeles County patients won yet another order blocking a huge contraction of the massive county health-service system. Attorney Yolanda Vera of Neighborhood Legal Services said the county was being less than candid about......