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A Superior Court judge granted a prosecution request to retry Dr. James Heaps on nine charges after a jury deadlocked on the counts last fall.

James Mason Heaps was sentenced to 11 years in state prison after being found guilty in October 2022 of three counts sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual battery of an unconscious person.

BURBANK, Calif. – Judge Michael D. Carter granted the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office a retrial on all hung counts remaining against former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps on Friday.

A former USC campus gynecologist accused of sexual abusing hundreds of women under the guise of medical exams was arrested Wednesday by Los Angeles police and charged with sexually assaulting 16 patients over the course of seven years.

Three female doctors at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center have filed suit against L.A. County, alleging it ignored years of complaints about Dr. Louis Kwong.

Three female doctors have sued LA County for ignoring their complaints a surgeon who allegedly stuck his fingers in a hip wound on an unconscious patient and made sex noises.

This post was updated Sept. 21 at 10:37 p.m. As UCLA chancellor Gene Block begins the last year of his tenure, he and his colleagues reflect on the work he has done over the past 17 years.

As the new academic year rolls around, the UCLA community has been faced with Chancellor Gene Block’s retirement announcement after 16 eventful years of serving the University.

Dr. George Tyndall faces 18 felony counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person along with nine felony counts of sexual battery by fraud.

A judge allowed the case against George Tyndall to proceed to trial. He is accused of having sex with 16 patients while they were unconscious.