
James Queally
Reporter at Los Angeles Times
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4 days ago |
latimes.com | Brittny Mejia |James Queally
It took a federal jury an hour to convict a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy of using excessive force after he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman outside a supermarket in Lancaster in 2023. The prosecutors made their case in a three-day trial in February, ultimately persuading jurors to find Trevor Kirk guilty of a felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law. Kirk faced up to 10 years in prison. But on Monday, U.S. District Judge Stephen V.
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4 days ago |
aol.com | Brittny Mejia |James Queally
It took a federal jury an hour to convict a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy of using excessive force after he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman outside a supermarket in Lancaster in 2023. The prosecutors made their case in a three-day trial in February, ultimately persuading jurors to find Trevor Kirk guilty of a felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law. Kirk faced up to 10 years in prison. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Stephen V.
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4 days ago |
latimes.com | Richard Winton |Matthew Ormseth |James Queally |Grace Toohey |Hannah Fry
The suspect accused of fatally shooting two people including a Baldwin Park police officer over the weekend has been identified as 22-year-old Eduardo Roberto Medina-Berumen, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said Monday. Two law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the active investigation, said Medina-Berumen has no known criminal history.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | James Queally
A cadre of civil rights groups brought a lawsuit late Wednesday challenging Riverside County’s use of cash bail to detain people as they await trial, citing squalid conditions inside the county’s jails where dozens of inmates have died in recent years.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Brittny Mejia |James Queally
A federal judge said Tuesday he will allow prosecutors to downgrade charges against an L.A. County sheriff’s deputy — who was already convicted of a felony in an excessive force case earlier this year — but the embattled law enforcement officer could still get prison time. In issuing his decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson stymied a highly unusual legal maneuver pushed last month by Bill Essayli, the newly appointed U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.
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