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The county's jailhouse informant program changed a huge criminal case, and the trajectories of some careers.

The longtime judge, already well known in Orange County, became one of the most famous jurists in the U.S. over the past year after taking on a case involving former President Donald Trump’s election lawyer and the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol.

U.S. Department of Justice report critical of the Orange County Sheriff's Department and the Orange County district attorney's past use of jail informants.

The states top prosecutor filed a petition with the state Supreme Court asking the justices to hear a case involving an Appeal Court that overturned the murder convictions of three former officers for beating an inmate to death.

The states top prosecutor filed a petition with the state Supreme Court asking the justices to hear a case involving an Appeal Court that overturned the murder convictions of three former officers for beating an inmate to death.

Here's a look at why a California court overturned three deputies' murder conviction.

Here's a look at why a California court overturned three deputies' murder conviction.

An appellate court has reversed the murder convictions of three Northern California deputies convicted in the 2015 jail beating death of a mentally ill inmate.

An appellate court has reversed the murder convictions of three Northern California deputies convicted in the 2015 jail beating death of a mentally ill inmate after a judge ruled that the primary legal theory prosecutors cited was invalidated by recent changes in state law

Judges for the state Commission on Judicial Performance Monday recommended no discipline for an Orange County Superior Court judge accused of misconduct when he was a prosecutor in the case of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy killed in a crash.