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When OC School Remembered This Mass Shooter As Spoiled And Coward

A school classmate of Ian Long, suspected of committing a mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, said that Long’s birthplace was Orange County. The classmate, Cole Marcum-Walsh, described him as a spoiled and contemptible individual with cowardice in him. Long and Marcum-Walsh went to Silverado Elementary School together. The campus on Silverado Canyon...

When The OC District Attorney The Snitch Ruling Of Courts of Appeal

Before allowing cops to answer questions from the witness box about potential crimes, prosecutors typically elicit their employment experience to establish credibility. Most police officers remember the time of all promotions, even in careers spanning multiple decades. However, in 2018, in the courtroom in Little Saigon, Cyril Foster, the Deputy of the Orange County...

When Lawsuit From Man Jailed 6 Years Got Postponed

A person named Zulmai Nazarzai was once jailed for 6 years on one civil contempt-related charge. In 2018, Nazarzai needed to wait more time to present his constitutional rights-related lawsuit before a US federal jury against the OC Sheriff's Department. With the acceptance of the two parties, Judge Andrew John Guilford moved the man’s trial...

Could Public Drunkenness Excuse Murder Under Law?

Federal judges in Southern California once looked at a case with an argument between two sets of diners who were consuming alcohol. The argument at a restaurant in Santa Ana concerned whether Michoacan or Sinaloa was the better Mexican state. The groups hurled angry obscenities at each other. The larger group of diners, which included...

When California AG Protecting Dirty Cops Irked Murder Victim’s Spouse

As part of exposing the corruption in Orange County’s law enforcement, Paul Wilson published an editorial that forced California’s former Attorney General Xavier Becerra to hold dishonest cops responsible. Wilson lost his spouse ten years ago in one of Orange County’s senseless and worst mass murders. A judge in California’s superior court ruled that multiple...

When This Festival Showed Documentary On Immigrant Facing Deportation

The 2018 Viet Film Festival in Orange County had many volunteers to direct the audience to theater screenings. With actors and filmmakers arriving at the local AMC theaters in stunning attire, the event was considered to be better than similar Hollywood affairs. It was also regarded as a celebration of Vietnamese independent cinema at...

SMPLSTC, The Expanding Cannabidiol Store In Costa Mesa

Back in 2011, SMPLSTC’s present owner Conor Denman opened a cannabis vaping business enterprise known as Traditional Juice. However, Denman was not fond of cannabis even as he supported the tobacco business. This view changed as Denman saw how cannabidiol helped his father with prostate cancer as well as his mother with fibromyalgia. In...

Story About Monitoring Of Client-Attorney Calls Termed Impossible

Orange County’s police faced a hurdle to solving a crime from 1998 when they were attempting to accuse teen Arthur Carmona of an American juice bar robbery. The hurdle was that there were no useful witnesses. The cops noted that the robber wore an LA Lakers cap at the time, and that Carmona lacked...

Throwback: When Reverend Sheldon Admitted TVC Was A Mess

Reverend Lou P. Sheldon angrily fought gays, feminists, progressives and immigrants at a national level through a scaremongering mail strategy that possibly got millions of US dollars into his financial accounts. Sheldon is also Washington DC’s Traditional Values Coalition founder. The octogenarian man from Anaheim was at loggerheads with Andrea Lafferty, his bigoted daughter whom...

Why Allies Visit Immigrants In Orange County Detention Centers

Undocumented immigrants living in detention centers have always been afraid of getting forgotten. ICE does well in that isolation, with cold floors of cell blocks and walls with no windows for sunlight to pierce through to force those immigrants into agreeing to early voluntary deportations. Confronting a relative, neighbor or friend in those kinds...