Receives no jail time Todd Bosnich, the ex- policy director for Carl DeMaio’s 52nd Congressional District campaign in 2014, was ordered Monday to perform 240 hours of community service for obstruction of justice when he repeatedly lied by falsely claiming DeMaio had threatened him. Bosnich, 30, of Del Mar, was fined $2,600 and was placed…
The sentencing for obstruction of justice for Todd Bosnich, a former aide to Carl DeMaio, has been moved from Aug. 31 to Oct. 5 in U.S. District Court. No reason was given for the delay in court documents, but it was not opposed by the U.S. Attorney’s office. Bosnich, 29, of Del Mar, remains free…
Four men who participated in the “pistol-whip” robbery series in Hillcrest, North Park and elsewhere had their sentencing delayed July 11 until Sept. 19. The series was noted for four victims being hit over the head with a gun and other victims being ordered at gunpoint to lay prone on the ground while their personal…
A rapist who was arrested in Ocean Beach after two lesbians heard the victim’s screams and chased him was sentenced April 17 to 30 years to life in state prison. Richard Christopher Butts, 26, said nothing before San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh handed down the expected sentence. Butts pleaded guilty March 3 to…
SAN DIEGO — Bettie Lois Cain has been sentenced to two years in jail for grand theft auto and four counts of writing bad checks for renting property on closed bank accounts from a defunct business she ran in North Park. Cain, 68, of Normal Heights, will be serving her sentence in the Las Colinas…
Bettie Lois Cain waved goodbye to her girlfriend and friends before she was handcuffed and went to jail after she won a delay in her fraud sentencing. Two attorneys for Cain, 68, of Normal Heights, won the delay in sentencing until April 9, but San Diego Superior Court Judge Charles Gill and the prosecutor expressed…
SACRAMENTO – The Senate today passed legislation authored by Sen. Mark Leno that reforms California’s drug sentencing laws for simple possession. SB 649 allows counties to significantly reduce incarceration costs by giving prosecutors the flexibility to charge low-level, non-violent drug offenses as misdemeanors instead of felonies. The bill also gives judges discretion to deem a non-violent…
The convicted killer of Jason “Cowboy” Huggins was sentenced Nov. 14 to 19 years to life in prison by a judge who said the North Park man had no remorse for brutally assaulting Huggins in the head with heavy rocks that caused irreversible brain damage. Joshua James Larson, 38, said nothing before San Diego Superior…
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (CNN) – Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, after a judge sentenced him Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing boys entrusted into his care. Judge John Cleland ordered Sandusky, 68, to spend no less than 30 years…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CNN) – Prosecutors will appeal a 30-day jail sentence handed down last week against Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, who then killed himself by jumping off New York’s George Washington Bridge. Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan said Ravi’s crimes warranted “more…
