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Dog Food Capernew

Journalists and the Los Angeles City Council cave to iffy lawsuit.
L.A. Weekly  |  Christine Pelisek  |  11-22-2006  |  Crime & Justice

The Final Hours of Miguel Contreranew

The 911 call said he went in for a card reading, but the death of the labor leader prompted a prostitution raid. What really went down at the botanica?
L.A. Weekly  |  David Zahniser  |  10-26-2006  |  Crime & Justice

The Caged Lionnew

Environmentalist Rod Coronado returns to prison a decade after his radical heyday.
L.A. Weekly  |  Susan Zakin  |  08-10-2006  |  Crime & Justice

The Sex Murder Filesnew

A serial killer may be stalking L.A.'s prostitutes.
L.A. Weekly  |  Christine Pelisek  |  06-08-2006  |  Crime & Justice

The Prison Kingnew

"Z" gave his favorite white inmates drugs, weapons and the freedom to roam.
L.A. Weekly  |  Christine Pelisek  |  03-23-2006  |  Crime & Justice

Trumped-Up Terroristsnew

There are doubts about the feds' claim that a father and son recruited U.S. citizens for training at radical religious schools and raised money for "international jihadist groups."
L.A. Weekly  |  John Ryan  |  03-02-2006  |  Crime & Justice

The Knockout Shotnew

How did former boxer Michael Hunter end up shot dead on a rooftop by LAPD undercover cops?
L.A. Weekly  |  Christine Pelisek  |  02-23-2006  |  Crime & Justice

The Trials of Mandla Dubenew

During a mysterious psychotic episode, a South African filmmaker threatened to kill his children -- did our justice system protect his family over the next year or simply destroy it?
L.A. Weekly  |  Kenneth Miller  |  02-09-2006  |  Crime & Justice

Supermax Explodesnew

An inmate's wife and a sheriff come to terms with a riot.
L.A. Weekly  |  Celeste Fremon  |  02-09-2006  |  Crime & Justice

The Well-Connected Molesternew

David Newman liked his pals at MySpace.com as much as children of celebrities -- then he helped bring down a prosecutor.
L.A. Weekly  |  Jeffrey Anderson  |  02-03-2006  |  Crime & Justice

How the Kobe Case Ended With a Quack, Not a Roarnew

After Kobe Bryant was accused of rape, I rushed headlong into a ravenous media feeding frenzy that would eventually shake my faith in my profession, as well as in myself. In the end, our glaring search for the truth yielded exactly the opposite.
L.A. Weekly  |  Alex Markels  |  09-13-2004  |  Crime & Justice

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