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Michael Gargiulo Case: Pretrial Hearing 21
Michael Gargiulo, in custody; date unknownI am trying to get caught up on some of my notes from older pretrial hearings that have not been transcribed yet. Below are my notes on what happened on July...
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Javier Bolden Trial: Verdict Watch
Javier Bolden, during opening statements on Oct. 16.Photo: NBC Pool video cameraUPDATE 6:30 PM spelling, clarity, update after court belowFriday, October 24, 20141:30 PMThe Ninth FloorI'm in the center...
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Javier Bolden Convicted of Murder of Chinese USC Grad Students
Javier Bolden, October 16, 2012, during opening statementsPhoto: NBC pool video cameraToday, a jury in a Los Angeles downtown courtroom convicted Javier Bolden of two counts of first degree murder in...
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VOTE 2014
November 4, 2014 We enjoy great freedoms in the United States, and one of those is the ability to vote who we want to represent us in city, county, state, and national offices. We are also able to vote...
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Michael Gargiulo Case: Pretrial Hearing 24
Michael Gargiulo, in custody, date unknownNovember 7, 2014Michael Gargiulo relinquishes his pro per status and stand by counsel Charles Lindner has been reinstated as attorney of record. Next pretrial...
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Beth Karas Launches KarasOnCrime.com
Beth KarasIn mid October 2014, right before the start of the Jodi Arias penalty phase retrial, former CourtTv/TruTv reporter and legal analyst Beth Karas launched a new website, KarasOnCrime.com, a...
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Michael Gargiulo Preliminary Hearing - June 21, 2010, Day 1, Part I
Michael Thomas GargiuloUPDATE 11/26: edited for spelling, formatting, clarity; added referenced case linksThis is a synopsis of the preliminary hearing conducted in the Michael Gargiulo case on Monday,...
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Happy Thanksgiving 2014
Today, our nation gives thanks. Wikipedia has interesting information about the roots of Thanksgiving in the US, Canada and other countries.Six months ago, I did not know if my husband, "Mr. Sprocket"...
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"December 7, 1941, A Date Which Will Live In Infamy..."
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View ArticleChristinan Newsom Case - Vanessa Coleman Denied Parole
GUEST ENTRY FROM DAVID in TENNENNESSEE!David brings us updates on two events related to Vanessa Coleman's second trial. SprocketVanessa Coleman Denied ParolebyDavid In TennesseeOn Wednesday, December...
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Here's What Happened to "Punkin Pie," Lana Clarkson's Former "Friend"
Punkin Irene Elizabeth Laughlin, aka "Pie"testifying for the defense in Spector 1, 2007.Back in 2007, over a period of about six months, I attended the first Phil Spector murder trial. It's also when...
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Merry Christmas, from the Sprocket Household
Mr. Sprocket called me into our bedroom. He told me it was a "photo op" moment.From left to right: Rocket, our new 8 month old addition, adopted from the Baldwin Park Shelter, named in honor of...
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First Hummingbird Nest of the Season
UPDATE 1/11/15 - Sad News. UPDATE: 1/10/15 - First Egg! UPDATE: 3:00 PMThe New YearTo begin, the Sprocket household has been under the weather. Mr. Sprocket is back to work today after a four day...
View ArticleT&T Update on Several Cases
UPDATE 1/21/15 spelling, clarityJanuary 20, 2015Hope all is well with everyone in the new year.This is just a short post to let T&T readers know that I haven't dropped off the face of the earth and...
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Michael Gargiulo Case, Pretrial Hearing 25
Michael Thomas Gargiulo, in custody; date unknownUPDATE 1/22: spelling, clarityJanuary 9, 2015The Ninth Floor I'm here in the hallway on the 9th floor of the downtown Los Angeles Criminal Court...
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Joshua Woodward Preliminary Hearing Day 6 - Part II
Joshua Woodward at a previous court hearing.Note: I meant to get these notes written up soon after Woodward was bound over for trial on 1/23/14 but they got put on the back burner. A few months later,...
View ArticleRafael Martinez, Jr. Trial - Day 1, Jury Selection
UPDATE: spelling, clarity; corrected Blankstein's new assignment Monday January 26, 2015Jury selection started this morning at the Van Nuys Courthouse, Dept. V, in the cold case murder trial of Rafael...
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Cameron Brown 3rd Trial, Pretrial 19
Inspiration Point, Ranch Palos Verdes, CA, where Lauren Sarene Key, 4, fell to her death on 11/8/2000.View is from Portuguese Point.January 27, 2015There was supposed to be a pretrial hearing in the...
View ArticleRafael Martinez, Jr. Trial - Day 2, Jury Selection
Martinez trial, Day 1.....UPDATE spelling, clarityJanuary 27, 2015I made it from downtown to the Van Nuys Courthouse in plenty of time before Day 2 of the Martinez trial started. When I arrived on the...
View ArticleRafael Martinez, Jr., Trial - Day 3, Jury Selection
Wednesday, January 28, 2014Jury selection continued this morning from 11:00 AM to noon. We return for more voir dire at 1:30 PM.At lunch, I'm searching the web trying to see if there were any news...
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