Recent Posts in Murder/Attempted Murder Category
Posted on Feb 7, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
One man was so determined to slay his business partner that he ignored a warning from the FBI to stop his plans. Although he was never successful in actually killing his partner, he is now behind bars ...
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Posted on Nov 13, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A man who was convicted of murder in 1995 has had that conviction overturned after being behind bars for 17 years. The man was released four days after the judge overturned the conviction, reuniting ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A double- murder suspect was finally taken into custody after nearly 100 officers were dispatched to locate him in Encino, California. Officers first spotted the suspect outside of a grocery store, ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A heartbreaking story of child abuse surfaced this week as officers with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigated the murder of a two-year-old girl. The little girl was brought to ...
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Posted on May 24, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police in Los Angeles are still searching for two more men for the murder of a man at a Hollywood party last month. According to police reports the victim, 22-year-old Lorenzo Smith, was at the party ...
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Posted on Mar 4, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A man who spent twenty years behind bars has been set free after several key witnesses recanted their identification of him. Francisco "Franky" Carrillo will be released from his Los Angeles prison on ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A brawl that happened before a Southern California -UCLA football game resulted in the arrest of three adult siblings and their father for attempted murder . Pasadena police arrested Arturo Cisneros, ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Although her husband was murdered 16 years ago, Cheryl L. Jenkins Gasper will be sent to jail for 18 years for plotting to kill him. Judge Larry M. Himelein of the Cattaraugus County Court sentenced ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
This month, a Latino gang member was convicted of first-degree murder in what is believed to be a racially motivated shooting death of a 14-year-old black girl as well as the stabbing death of a ...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
In the city of Indianapolis, Judge entered not guilty pleas for three men that I've been charged with murder. The killing occurred during a shootout at a birthday cookout which led to the death of two ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Los Angeles, two men have been charged with murdering a 6 year old girl. According to reports, the girl was hit by a vehicle during a police chase. Prosecutors told news sources that the men, Aaron ...
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Posted on May 6, 2010 By Schwartz & Naderi
In West Hollywood this past Monday a woman began randomly stabbing people with a knife in a busy Target store. She wounded three women and one man and was arrested when an off-duty sheriff’s deputy ...
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