San Juan Bautista - Police believe the suspect in the road rage accident that killed a 19-year-old Mexican immigrant, cutting short his dream of earning enough money to build his mother a home in Mexico City, has fled the country.
... E-mail this article to a friend | Printer friendly format | Email The Editor Road rage driver may have fled country Monday, May 23, 2005 By Erin Musgrave/Staff Writer San Juan Bautista - Police believe the suspect in the road rage accident that killed a 19-year-old Mexican immigrant, cutting short his dream of earning enough money to build his mother a home in Mexico City, has fled the country.... After several days of cold leads and little information, the California Highway Patrol recently received tips that the owner of the Toyota Celica involved in the Sunday accident on Highway 156 fled to Mexico, said Officer Matt Ramirez....” The person behind the wheel, who hasn't been positively identified as Vivanco, could face a murder charge, according to San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield.
The prosecution in Phil Spector's murder trial scored an early victory on Monday, when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler cleared the way for four women all of whom claim the record producer threatened them with gun violence to take the witness stand in the music legend's upcoming murder trial.
... Spector is charged in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson; he was arrested 10 months after her body was discovered at his Alhambra, California, mansion (see "Producer Phil Spector Charged With Murder" )....The four alleged incidents occurred between 1988 and 1995 (see "Phil Spector Told Police He Shot Actress By 'Accident,' According To Transcripts" ); Fidler refused to allow six other alleged incidents to be introduced....Prior to making the ruling, Judge Fidler acknowledged that allowing such evidence was "a dangerous path to go down," but agreed with Deputy District Attorney Doug Sortino's argument that the incidents seemed to demonstrate Spector's recurrent use of guns to threaten or intimidate people, reports the AP.
WASHINGTON (NNPA) Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown, the two U. S. District Court judges at the center of a debate over changing long-standing Senate rules on filibusters, have records that would undermine civil rights protection, advocates say.
... In fact, her own fellow justices on the court, including current [Texas] Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, have criticized a number of her opinions as improperly seeking to ‘judicially amend' Texas law or constituting ‘an unconscionable act of judicial activism,” states Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Spector.... Neas continues, “Janice Rogers Brown has a long, disturbing record of activist legal extremism and disregard of precedent on the California Supreme Court, particularly in the areas of civil rights and protection from discrimination, consumer and employees' rights, and property rights....” • When a liquor retailer sold alcohol to an obviously intoxicated customer, who then caused a car accident that permanently brain-damaged 9-year-old Ashley Duenez, Owen wanted to exonerate the liquor retailer.
San Juan Bautista - Police believe the suspect in the road rage accident that killed a 19-year-old Mexican immigrant, cutting short his dream of earning enough money to build his mother a home in Mexico City, has fled the country.
... E-mail this article to a friend | Printer friendly format | Email The Editor Road rage driver may have fled country Monday, May 23, 2005 By Erin Musgrave/Staff Writer San Juan Bautista - Police believe the suspect in the road rage accident that killed a 19-year-old Mexican immigrant, cutting short his dream of earning enough money to build his mother a home in Mexico City, has fled the country.... After several days of cold leads and little information, the California Highway Patrol recently received tips that the owner of the Toyota Celica involved in the Sunday accident on Highway 156 fled to Mexico, said Officer Matt Ramirez....” The person behind the wheel, who hasn't been positively identified as Vivanco, could face a murder charge, according to San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield.
The prosecution in Phil Spector's murder trial scored an early victory on Monday, when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler cleared the way for four women all of whom claim the record producer threatened them with gun violence to take the witness stand in the music legend's upcoming murder trial.
... Spector is charged in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson; he was arrested 10 months after her body was discovered at his Alhambra, California, mansion (see "Producer Phil Spector Charged With Murder" )....The four alleged incidents occurred between 1988 and 1995 (see "Phil Spector Told Police He Shot Actress By 'Accident,' According To Transcripts" ); Fidler refused to allow six other alleged incidents to be introduced....Prior to making the ruling, Judge Fidler acknowledged that allowing such evidence was "a dangerous path to go down," but agreed with Deputy District Attorney Doug Sortino's argument that the incidents seemed to demonstrate Spector's recurrent use of guns to threaten or intimidate people, reports the AP.
WASHINGTON (NNPA) Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown, the two U. S. District Court judges at the center of a debate over changing long-standing Senate rules on filibusters, have records that would undermine civil rights protection, advocates say.
... In fact, her own fellow justices on the court, including current [Texas] Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, have criticized a number of her opinions as improperly seeking to ‘judicially amend' Texas law or constituting ‘an unconscionable act of judicial activism,” states Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Spector.... Neas continues, “Janice Rogers Brown has a long, disturbing record of activist legal extremism and disregard of precedent on the California Supreme Court, particularly in the areas of civil rights and protection from discrimination, consumer and employees' rights, and property rights....” • When a liquor retailer sold alcohol to an obviously intoxicated customer, who then caused a car accident that permanently brain-damaged 9-year-old Ashley Duenez, Owen wanted to exonerate the liquor retailer.
