Christopher Goffard

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Christopher Goffard

Craig Charron faces life in prison after being found guilty of murdering Laura Sardinha, who was trying to escape their relationship. On the day she changed her locks to keep him out, 25-year-old Laura Sardinha was on a call with her mother and her best friend, sounding relieved to be done with boyfriend Craig J. Charron. She had taken out a restraining order against him, the latest of several women to do so. She had demanded that he move out of her Huntington Beach apartment.

3 weeks ago | modbee.com | Christopher Goffard

The FBI had been following Richard W. Miller for weeks, waiting for him to slip. He was one of them, a veteran bureau man, and now he was suspected of betraying his oath and his country. A small army of agents surveilled him day and night, trying to catch him transmitting secrets to the Soviets. They tapped his car. They tapped his phones. They tapped his desk at the bureau's Wilshire Boulevard office.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Christopher Goffard

The FBI had been following Richard W. Miller for weeks, waiting for him to slip. He was one of them, a veteran bureau man, and now he was suspected of betraying his oath and his country. A small army of agents surveilled him day and night, trying to catch him transmitting secrets to the Soviets. They tapped his car. They tapped his phones. They tapped his desk at the bureau’s Wilshire Boulevard office.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Christopher Goffard

Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his wife. A veteran Orange County judge who killed his wife in their Anaheim Hills home during an argument two years ago was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday. Jeffrey Ferguson, now 74, had been drinking hard on Aug. 3, 2023, when he reached for the Glock .40-caliber handgun he routinely kept in an ankle holster.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Christopher Goffard

Modesto defense attorney Frank Carson was accused of masterminding a complicated murder plot but acquitted by a jury in 2019. He and his co-defendants sued for malicious prosecution. Six years after a jury acquitted a Modesto defense attorney and his codefendants in an alleged murder conspiracy, Stanislaus County has agreed to settle a malicious prosecution lawsuit for $22.5 million, one of the largest payouts of its kind in the history of the California courts.