But it wasn't enough. The bastards deserve longer sentences. If I had my way, I'd incarcerate the father and those that enabled him to protect his guilty son.
I found this today:
March 10, 2006
Haidl Gangmembers Gets Six Year Sentences Each
By: So Cal Lawyer at 4:39 pm
The son of a former Orange County assistant sheriff and two of his friends have each been sentenced to six years in prison for the videotaped sexual assault of an unconscious teenage girl.
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Taken from Southern California Law Blog (link below)
http://sclblog.com/index.php?s=Gregory+HaidlApparently in Orange County, CA having proof of rape on video tape featuring an obviously comatose 16 year old girl means nothing. When one of the rapists is the son of a man worth 40 million dollars, it equates to delays, prohbation so you can go out and commit more crimes, and plenty of people on the payroll to make life a living hell for the victim. Below I have provided a few disturbing excerpts from the article which speaks to how the victim was treated by the families of the rapists. Additionally, some of the treatment of a jurist that served in the second trial (the first one was dead-locked...):eyes:
Excerpt from Orange County Weekly article on trial and sentencing:
Lost in the buildup to the sentencing hearing is Jane Doe, the name prosecutors gave the victim, who was 16 years old at the time of the crime. She was thrust suddenly into the bright lights of the national media, as well as the intrigue of bitter defendants and some cops who openly sympathized with the Haidls. For example, Sheriff Mike Carona used his second in command in a bold-faced but ultimately vain attempt to influence the Newport Beach police investigation. Seeking dirt on the victim, Greg’s mother, Gail, hired people to post fliers in Doe’s neighborhood. Later, the defense hired a professional publicist and several teams of private detectives to attack her and her family. She was tracked like a dog and subject to countless smears. She found temporary relief in methamphetamines, a drug she says she’s been working hard to overcome in recent months.
It’s hardly surprising her life spiraled out of control. One Haidl dick—John Warren, a former ranking FBI agent in Santa Ana—disclosed Doe’s identity to students at the high school she had transferred to. Most of her friends abandoned her, shamelessly siding with Haidl, the son of a man reportedly worth more than $40 million. The defense illegally leaked her private medical records to the media, a move that Los Angeles Times columnist Dana Parsons rewarded by downplaying the crime and belittling District Attorney Tony Rackauckas for filing felony charges. On the witness stand, Doe was called “a slut” and “a liar” by lead defense lawyer Joe Cavallo. She was forced to stare at enlarged pictures of her own vagina during torturous cross examinations. The defendants floated the idea that she had raped them. In front of the jury, defense lawyer Peter Morreale asked her if she liked to swallow after oral sex. At another point, defense lawyers argued that she faked unconsciousness to shoot a necrophilia-based sex video. They claimed she wanted to launch a porn career and the defendants were merely obliging her wishes.
“Faking?” asked jury foreman Ruiz. “No way. You can see on the video that she was only conscious for the first couple of minutes. After that, they were propping her up. Whatever they gave her knocked her out in my opinion. Even before they let go of her and her head hit the couch, it was obvious the line had been crossed. She did not put herself in those positions on the pool table.”
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Although there were heated moments during jury deliberations, Ruiz is proud his panel of “honest, decent people” could render a verdict after a deadlock in the first trial. “Man, I don’t know what those people were seeing,” he said of jurors in the first trial. “The tape proved they were guilty. If you show that video on the news, everybody’s view would be that these guys should hang. People would go crazy. You know what I mean? It was primal. It looked like savages having their way with a piece of meat.”
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Married and a fourth-generation Mexican-American from El Toro, Ruiz can look physically intimidating. If you passed him on the street, you’d see a husky guy with a shaved head, a goatee, big dark eyes and a right arm full of tattoos. But in a three-hour interview, he was also articulate, perceptive and easygoing.
But the case provided startling moments for Ruiz even outside the courtroom. During the latter part of the trial, he says, he was clumsily tailed by Haidl PI Warren to the Costa Mesa Inca Grill for dinner. One night, after the trial, two jurors from the first trial knocked on his front door. They wanted information to discredit the guilty verdicts. He says those ex-jurors, who were on the Haidl payroll, insisted the defendants are “really good boys.”
Ruiz has a different view. He sees Spann as the guy “who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but he didn’t stop what was happening.” He remembers Nachreiner as a seemingly temperamental fellow who repeatedly yelled “nigger” during the rape and the irony that he sat at the defense table next to Spann, who is part African-American. He says baby-faced Haidl was transparently coached to look naive and innocent, often posing with his head bowed and hands folded in something like prayer.
“If I had one word for the defense tactics, it would be ‘overkill,’” he said.
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The above excerpts were taken from:
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/people-would-go-crazy/24642/For information on the case, the delays and problems ineherent to trying guilty, wealthy brats in suburbia here's an archive of various articles on the case:
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/investigations/I followed this case on the local news and it always made me sick. As I dug for more information, I found the case was even more disturbing than msm let on.
My heart goes out to the young woman (who is now 20). Last night, the news showed part of the sentencing and featured part of the victim/survivor addressing the judge, court and her assailants. Her voice was breaking and she was obviously in tears.
:mad::cry::grr:
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