Indeed, U.S. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger has urged a greater reliance on probation to relieve prison overcrowding. The concept applies equally well to the Orange County Jail, where serious overcrowding increases the risks of violence, forces hundreds of inmates to sleep on mats on the jail ...
“In our experience, generally it is more difficult to prosecute people of celebrity,” said Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti, whose office prosecuted the marathon Simpson case. In the Times survey, athletes were convicted 68% of the time, nearly the same rate as the general popul...
Butler was on probation for residential burglary when he killed Ito, a Japanese citizen, and Matsuura, a U.S. citizen born in Japan. The two had met other students in the parking lot of a San Pedro supermarket to begin looking for a place to stay because their dorm rooms had been close...