Los Angeles Criminal Law News

Former Playboy Playmate, Victoria Rathgeb, was arrested after non-fatally shooting her husband in the back after a heated argument last year. Rathgeb was initially charged with Attempted Murder and was facing a possible sentence of life in prison, had she been convicted. After negotiations with the prosecutors, Rathgeb plead no contest to Attempted Voluntary Manslaughter [...]

The Bling Ring first gained notoriety in 2009 when members of the theft gang were accused of robbing the homes of several celebrities including Orlando Bloom and Lindsay Lohan. Rachel Lee, the alleged leader of the Bling Ring, recently pled no contest to residential burglary charges and faces several years in prison. Originally, Lee was [...]

Charles Kelly was dressed in his security guard uniform when he offered a woman a ride, drove her to a parking lot and raped her at knifepoint. The victim managed to escape, and fled from the scene for help. She had dropped her cell phone in Kelly’s vehicle during the altercation, an accident that helped [...]

Gary Cochran, a registered criminal sex offender from Huntington Beach, California, recently plead guilty to making Child Pornography after he was arrested for filming an 8-year-old girl engaged in sex acts. In 2008, a search of Cochran’s home produced videos of the girl, as well as hundreds of other videos and images depicting child pornography. [...]

Lindsay Lohan is back in the news. As usual Lindsay has been taking her legal situation quite lightly. Lohan and her Criminal Attorney were in court Wednesday, when her lawyer told the Judge, LiLo “would honor her obligations at the morgue, beginning Thursday.” On Thursday morning, however, Lindsay showed up about 40 minutes late to [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California filed a suit Thursday against the Glendale Unified Administrators as well as three law enforcement agencies. The suit claimed that about 55 Latino high school students were illegally detained, frisked, and questioned in what the ACLU is now calling “a textbook case of racial profiling.” The [...]