Illegal Fireworks Injure 9 People, Including 6 Children
A Santa Ana, Calif. man is facing a life sentence after an illegal Fourth of July fireworks show in Garden Grove left nine people including six children injured.
Some of the children were sent to the hospital with severe facial and scalp injuries following the explosion on the 13800 block of Rosita Place. The blast shattered the windows of nearby apartments and a vehicle, police said.
Among the injured were two brothers, aged four and eight, who were treated for burned corneas. The eight-year-old also suffered second-degree burns.
While four patients treated by medics at the scene, five others were admitted to a local hospital.
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Some low-level misdemeanors are dropped in exchange for your DNA in Orange County MORE In Orange County, prosecutors are currently running the nation’s only local DNA collection program that targets low-level misdemeanor crimes in exchange for dropping or reducing charges. Photo by Shutterstock
Law enforcement can collect and store DNA for felonies and serious misdemeanors in national databases, according to California state and federal law.
But in Orange County, prosecutors are currently running the nation’s only local genetic collection program that targets low-level misdemeanor crimes in exchange for dropping or reducing charges. The program started under OC’s former district attorney, Tony Rackaukas, and has been continued under DA Todd Spitzer.
Californiaâs new budget makes it clear that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislatureâs dominant Democrats are favoring a cadre of local district attorneys who favor leniency and rehabilitation for lawbreakers in their political duel with traditional, punishment-oriented prosecutors.
The battle is being fought on several fronts, most prominently in a looming clash between newly appointed Attorney General Rob Bonta, an outspoken advocate of whatâs called the âcriminal justice reform,â and Anne Marie Schubert, the high-profile district attorney of Sacramento.
Newsom has long been a reform advocate, but swept away any doubt about where he stands by imposing a moratorium on executing murderers and naming Bonta, a former state assemblyman, to succeed Xavier Becerra after he joined the Biden administration.
Trial scheduled for November for Lake Forest murder of Blaze Bernstein
Samuel Lincoln Woodward, now 23, left, consults with former attorney Edward Munoz as he appears in court at the Orange County Central Justice Center in Santa Ana in January 2018. Woodward is charged with the murder of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein.
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The trial for a Newport Beach man who stands accused of murdering his former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein is tentatively set for November following a trial setting conference held Friday.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Menninger set the date for the jury trial of Samuel Lincoln Woodward, now 23, to begin for November after Woodward’s attorney requested a delay of the proceedings to January due to other trial conflicts.