California governor Gavin Newsom will delay a decision on whether to grant the Menendez brothers clemency until after Los Angeles' new DA reviews the case. The current DA, George Gascón, asked a judge last month to resentence Lyle and Erik, who were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 1996 for the first degree murder of Jose and …
As he’s faced increased criticism from law enforcement, elected officials and his own staff, Los Angeles County Dist. Tubbs was 17 at the time of the attack, and Gascón told a reporter Wednesday that, in keeping with his policy of not trying juveniles as adults, he thought “the Tubbs case still does not belong in adult court.” Then Sunday evening, …
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A Lancaster father accused of decapitating two of his children and showing their two siblings the dead bodies must have a mental competency hearing before the case can move forward, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has decided. Inside the home, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide detectives had found his decapitated son and daughter, 12-year-old Maurice Jr. and 13-year-old Maliaka, …
Firefighters responding to a call of a possible gas leak at a Lancaster home last week found the bodies of two children inside. California Two young people found decapitated in Lancaster home; father arrested, officials say A personal trainer described as “mellow” and “reliable” was arrested Friday in connection with the deaths of his two adolescent children, who were found …