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A bill that would make it illegal to issue marriage licenses to anyone under the age of 18 in California is now headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom for final approval, likely ending a decade-long fight to outlaw the practice.
L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said an LAPD officer who was charged with multiple felonies for secretly recording racist, sexist and homophobic remarks by his colleagues will instead face misdemeanor charges.
The family of Keith Porter Jr., who was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve, called on Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman to put the case before a grand jury.
Miguel Diego Sandoval will spend the rest of his life in a California prison after pleading guilty to killing four people, including his former romantic partner, when he burst into a Lancaster home, shot several people while they slept and burned the building down.
Prosecutors say David Anthony Burke, better known as the singer D4vd, shopped online for most of the tools he allegedly used to dismember the body of a teenage girl, purchasing a range of items that were delivered to his doorstep.
LAPD Officer Daniel Flores pleaded not guilty Monday to 16 counts of felony eavesdropping, and his lawyer accused Dist. Attny. Nathan Hochman of making “a desperate effort to save face” with a motion last week that sought to justify the prosecution of man who documented racist remarks by his peers.
L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman is catching heat from Mayor Karen Bass, police accountability advocates and even some of his own prosecutors for filing charges against an LAPD officer who secretly recorded his colleagues making racist, sexist and homophobic remarks.
Stephen Cloobeck, a wealthy realtor and one-time Democratic candidate for governor of California, pleaded not guilty to witness tampering charges Friday. Cloobeck is accused of threatening witnesses against his former fiancée, Only Fans model Adva Lavie, in a burglary case.
Bell Police Officer James Ixcoy was charged with hiding a tracking device on his ex-girlfriend’s car and illegally using a DMV database to get information about a man she was dating, prosecutors said Monday.
A preliminary hearing revealed a trove of new information about the singer D4vd’s relationship with 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, but it also offered a preview of potential defenses his lawyers might trot out at trial — and showed there are some questions prosecutors can’t seem to answer.
