By City News Service
May 26, 2021
SANTA ANA (CNS) - A prominent Orange County defense attorney is lashing out at an appellate court ruling that criticized him, another local attorney and the state Bar for their response to a serial rapist s attempts to appeal his convictions.
The ruling penned by Associate Justice William W. Bedsworth of Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal primarily scolds defense attorney Michael Molfetta, who was sued by the serial rapist, Sekayi Rudo White. The ruling upholds a lower court ruling finding in favor of Molfetta.
White, now 43, represented himself in a civil lawsuit against Molfetta, who handled the defendant s motion for new trial and represented him at sentencing in June 2012, when he was handed a term of 112 years to life in prison for raping five women and molesting a sixth victim.
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SANTA ANA, Calif., May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Attorneys with Aitken Aitken Cohn secured a maximum settlement of $11 million from the California Republican Party on behalf of a catastrophically injured husband and father of six children.
The plaintiff, Richard Ruehle suffered severe injuries in a freeway crash caused by a paid campaign worker, ending nearly five years of intense litigation by Aitken Aitken Cohn s Chris Aitken and Megan Demshki that exposed serious dangers associated with the lax standards of paid political campaign precinct walkers.
In addition to compensating plaintiff Richard Ruehle for a life-changing tragedy that left him a quadriplegic, the public resolution helps expose the ongoing dangers of political campaigns which have become big business, with goals far beyond a single election. It brings needed responsibility and accountability to an arena that required tenacious advocacy and ingenuity to investigate.
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Hearing to determine whether to place sexual predator in 29 Palms continued to May 27
The fight will continue over the placement of a sexually violent predator in 29 Palms. The hearing was held in Orange County Superior courtroom. The judge ruled to continue the hearing to next Thursday, May 27th.
News Channel 3’s Dani Romero reports how community members will continue to make their voices heard.
We were not physically inside the courtroom or in Orange County on Friday but a number of community members spoke about their concerns virtually about a convicted serial child rapist being placed in this 29 Palms home.
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State prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to dismiss most sex crime charges filed against a reality TV doctor and his girlfriend, who are accused of drugging and raping several women at their Southern California home.
The attorney general’s office, which took over the case from the Orange County district attorney’s office last year, filed a motion asking for dismissal of 10 charges involving six of the seven alleged victims.
”We have no reason to believe that any of these victims are being untruthful,” but a review found that some allegations couldn’t be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the prosecutor said.