Post by Messalinahttp://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/38/web-moxley2.php
Victim's ex-friends Jenna Stroh, Melissa Matsumoto and Vanessa Obmann
contradict earlier statements in testimony and generally behave
dispicably in an attempt to convince people that the victim is a liar
and a slut but they are not.
Several questions come to mind from this story; what are a bunch of
kids from Rancho Cucamonga doing hanging out with kids in south OC
(I'm from Orange County; you wouldn't have caught me dead going
Inland)? Why is an assistant sherriff in OC a multi-millionaire?
Mez
Mez, maybe this will help explain the Inland vs south thing:
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-haidl29may29,0,7309133.story?coll=la-editions-orange
ORANGE COUNTY
Rape Case Investigators Miss Court Appearance
San Bernardino County judge rescinds warrants issued for defense team
members in Haidl suit.
By Claire Luna
Times Staff Writer
May 29, 2004
Two defense team investigators involved in a high-profile Orange
County rape case surrendered Friday after a judge issued arrest
warrants because they failed to come to court.
Former FBI supervisor John Warren, who now runs an investigative firm
in Tustin, and contract employee Shawn Smigel were scheduled to
provide depositions in a San Bernardino County civil case connected to
the rape trial.
The mother of one of the defendants, Gregory Haidl, 18, has sued San
Bernardino County, alleging that law enforcement officers conspired to
prevent her from assisting in her son's defense.
Warren said the subpoena was sent to the Irvine office of Haidl's
lawyer and was lost or misplaced, so he and Smigel weren't aware of
the court date.
Warren said he heard about the arrest warrants on the radio Thursday
and arranged for himself and Smigel to turn themselves in at the San
Bernardino County courthouse Friday morning.
"We had no idea this was going on," Warren said. "We weren't
disrespecting the court in any way. We just weren't notified."
Warren was in court in Santa Ana on Thursday morning to accompany
several of the alleged victim's former friends, who were testifying
for the defense. He left the courthouse about 1:30 p.m., and San
Bernardino Superior Court Judge Ben T. Kayashima issued the bench
warrants shortly thereafter.
It was the second contempt hearing Warren and Smigel have missed after
failing to attend their original deposition two months ago, said
attorney Tristan Pelayes, who is representing San Bernardino County.
Pelayes said Friday that he was satisfied with the investigators'
promises to attend the rescheduled deposition in July. The arrest
warrants were recalled.
"All we want is to take their deposition," he said. "We don't want to
see them in jail and handcuffs."
Haidl, along with Keith James Spann and Kyle Joseph Nachreiner, both
19, are charged with raping a then-16-year-old girl who prosecutors
say was drugged and unconscious. The July 6, 2002 incident at Haidl's
father's Corona del Mar home was videotaped, and charges were filed
after the footage was given to police.
The San Bernardino County lawsuit stems from a dispute that began
shortly after the defendants' arrests. Fliers identifying the alleged
victim by last name and asking for information about her family were
distributed in the Rancho Cucamonga neighborhood where both she and
Haidl's mother, Gail, live.
After San Bernardino County sheriff's officials were given a flier
that had been placed in the girl's mailbox, they began investigating
Gail Haidl for possible witness tampering, and told her not to use
that method to gather information. She denied responsibility for the
flier, although she has admitted that it included her home phone
number. She sued the sheriff late last year.
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