* Left home voluntarily to speak with probation officials
* Nakoula not under arrest and not handcuffed
* Use of aliases, Internet may violate prison release terms
By Alex Dobuzinskis
Los Angeles, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A California man convicted of bank fraud was taken in for questioning on Saturday by officers investigating possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests in the Muslim world.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, voluntarily left his home in the early hours of Saturday morning for the meeting in a sheriff's station in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
"He will be interviewed by federal probation officers," Whitmore said. He said Nakoula had not been placed under arrest but would not be returning home immediately. "He was never put in handcuffs... It was all voluntary."
Nakoula, who has denied involvement in the film in a...
* Nakoula not under arrest and not handcuffed
* Use of aliases, Internet may violate prison release terms
By Alex Dobuzinskis
Los Angeles, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A California man convicted of bank fraud was taken in for questioning on Saturday by officers investigating possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests in the Muslim world.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, voluntarily left his home in the early hours of Saturday morning for the meeting in a sheriff's station in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
"He will be interviewed by federal probation officers," Whitmore said. He said Nakoula had not been placed under arrest but would not be returning home immediately. "He was never put in handcuffs... It was all voluntary."
Nakoula, who has denied involvement in the film in a...
- 9/15/2012
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
Michael Jackson likely helped himself to extra doses of two potent drugs while his personal physician Conrad Murray's back was turned, the defense's final witness told jurors on Friday. Murray's lawyers long have asserted that Jackson caused his own death, although the expert, Dr. Paul White, says he had backed away from an earlier theory that Jackson drank the anesthesia propofol after determining that orally consumed propofol has little effect. Instead, White told the jury, in Jackson's last minutes of consciousness, the sleepless superstar took several pills of the powerful sedative lorezepan and then injected the propofol. Related: Michael Jackson...
- 10/28/2011
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Los Angeles -- In life and death, Michael Jackson generated the type of headlines that, just like his songs, stick in people's minds.
Nowhere was that more evident than in a Los Angeles courthouse this week when a judge asked 370 citizens whether any of them were unaware of the case against a doctor charged in the pop superstar's death. Not a single hand was raised.
That didn't surprise the judge, who knew he'd have to go out of this world to find people who hadn't heard of Jackson and the manslaughter case against Dr. Conrad Murray.
"We didn't expect you'd been living under a rock for the past several years, or that you made a pit stop from Mars," Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor told a group Thursday. A day later, when Pastor asked whether anyone didn't know about the case they might serve on, there was tittering.
Potential jurors...
Nowhere was that more evident than in a Los Angeles courthouse this week when a judge asked 370 citizens whether any of them were unaware of the case against a doctor charged in the pop superstar's death. Not a single hand was raised.
That didn't surprise the judge, who knew he'd have to go out of this world to find people who hadn't heard of Jackson and the manslaughter case against Dr. Conrad Murray.
"We didn't expect you'd been living under a rock for the past several years, or that you made a pit stop from Mars," Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor told a group Thursday. A day later, when Pastor asked whether anyone didn't know about the case they might serve on, there was tittering.
Potential jurors...
- 9/11/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
By Alex Dobuzinskis
Los Angeles (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's former doctor faces a tough challenge clearing himself of involuntary manslaughter charges in the pop star's death as his trial, which promises to avoid many dark aspects of Jackson's life, begins with jury selection this week.
While it is Dr. Conrad Murray, who will be on trial when attorneys begin selecting a panel on Thursday, the "Thriller" singer's infamy will loom large over the proceedings.
Jackson was one of the world's most recognizable singers, dubbed the King of Pop, when he died in June 2009, at age 50. He also was known to have battled an addiction to painkillers, and Murray's attorneys had hoped to present evidence of his past drug use at the trial.
But in an obstacle for the defense, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor barred testimony from a half-dozen doctors whom Murray's attorneys had indicated in court...
Los Angeles (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's former doctor faces a tough challenge clearing himself of involuntary manslaughter charges in the pop star's death as his trial, which promises to avoid many dark aspects of Jackson's life, begins with jury selection this week.
While it is Dr. Conrad Murray, who will be on trial when attorneys begin selecting a panel on Thursday, the "Thriller" singer's infamy will loom large over the proceedings.
Jackson was one of the world's most recognizable singers, dubbed the King of Pop, when he died in June 2009, at age 50. He also was known to have battled an addiction to painkillers, and Murray's attorneys had hoped to present evidence of his past drug use at the trial.
But in an obstacle for the defense, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor barred testimony from a half-dozen doctors whom Murray's attorneys had indicated in court...
- 9/6/2011
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
A meeting between Los Angeles prosecutors and Mel Gibson's lawyers has fueled speculation that the actor could soon be charged with domestic violence - but legal experts say a decision could take several more weeks. Last October, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department finished investigating a claim that Gibson punched then-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in the face a year ago and knocked out two veneers on her teeth. But prosecutors have deferred any decision on whether to prosecute the actor until the sheriffs complete their investigation into claims that Grigorieva later extorted money from Gibson. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore tells...
- 1/20/2011
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
If Roman Polanski were charged with child rape today, DNA evidence, stiffer penalties, outcry over childhood sexual abuse and tougher scrutiny of celebrity justice would make prosecutors much less willing to cut the plea deal the director received more than 30 years ago, legal experts say.For one thing, changes in state law since the 1970s would give prosecutors other options in pursuing charges, including a law that includes a mandatory 15 years to life in state prison for rape, sodomy or a lewd act with a child coupled with certain circumstances, such as the use of a controlled substance, said Robin Sax, a former sex crimes prosecutor with the district attorney's office."He should be shutting up and thanking goodness for his sentence," said Sax, who is also a victim's advocate. "There's one part of me that says, 'Bring it on, you want your trial? Let's let...
- 9/30/2009
- Filmicafe
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