The University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles,California,United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San JoséState University. The branch was transferred to the University of California to become the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919,making it the second-oldest of the ten-campus University of California system after the University of California,Berkeley.
Police perjury,sometimes euphemistically called "testilying",is the act of a police officer knowingly giving false testimony. It is typically used in a criminal trial to "make the case" against defendants believed by the police to be guilty when irregularities during the suspects' arrest or search threaten to result in their acquittal. It also can be extended to encompass substantive misstatements of fact to convict those whom the police believe to be guilty,procedural misstatements to "justify" a search and seizure,or even the inclusion of statements to frame an innocent citizen. More generically,it has been said to be "[lying under oath,especially by a police officer,to help get a conviction."
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two non-consecutive tenures as the New York City Police Commissioner and currently one of only two NYPD commissioners being so(the other is Raymond Kelly). He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities –New York and Los Angeles.
Robert Leslie Shapiro is an American attorney and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the short-term defense lawyer of Erik Menéndez in 1990,and a member of the "Dream Team" of O. J. Simpson's attorneys that successfully defended him from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife,Nicole Brown Simpson,and Ron Goldman,in 1994. He later turned to civil work and co-founded ShoeDazzle,LegalZoom,and RightCounsel.com,appearing in their television commercials.
Eric Michael Garcetti is an American politician and diplomat who has been the United States ambassador to India since May 11,2023. He was the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 until 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,he was first elected in the 2013 election,and re-elected in 2017. A former member of the Los Angeles City Council,Garcetti served as City Council president from 2006 to 2012. He was the city's first elected Jewish mayor,and its second consecutive Mexican-American mayor. He was elected as the youngest mayor in over 100 years,having been 42 at the time of his inauguration. Upon nomination by President Joe Biden after a previously failed nomination the year before,Garcetti was finally confirmed as Ambassador to India by the Senate on a 52–42 vote on March 15,2023.
Leo Terrell is an American civil rights attorney and talk radio host based in Los Angeles,California. He has frequently appeared on Fox News programs,such as Hannity and The O'Reilly Factor. Previously a Democrat,in a July 2020 interview,he declared his support for President Donald Trump—the first time he declared support for a Republican Party presidential candidate. Referring to his new self as "Leo 2.0",Terrell says that he is a happier person as a Republican.
David Surmier Cunningham III is a California attorney. He serves as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge in multiple assignments in family law,probate and in complex civil assignments presiding over products liability cases,labor related class actions and mass torts. He was appointed to the court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on January 22,2009.
The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners,also commonly known as the Los Angeles Police Commission,is a five-member body of civilian-only,appointed officials which oversees the Los Angeles Police Department.
Jack Stephen Weiss is an American entrepreneur and former politician. He is co-founder of BlueLine Grid alongside William Bratton and David Riker and is a former member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 5th district from 2001 to 2009. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1994 to 2000. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Gilbert Salvador Iberri Garcetti is an American politician and lawyer. He served as Los Angeles County's 40th district attorney for two terms,from 1992 until November 7,2000. He is the father of U.S. Ambassador to India and former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Paul Delano Butler is an American lawyer,former prosecutor,and current law professor of Georgetown University Law Center. He is a leading criminal law scholar,particularly in the area of race and jury nullification.
Jamie D. McCourt is the former United States Ambassador to France and Monaco who served from 2017 to 2021. She was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in on November 2,2017. Ambassador McCourt is also the United States Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe. McCourt is the founder and CEO of Jamie Enterprises and a former executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She became the highest-ranking woman in Major League Baseball,appointed first as vice chairman of the Dodgers in 2004,then president in 2005,and finally CEO in 2009.
Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 2009 to 2012 and as a California superior court judge from 2002 to 2009.
Paul Jeffrey Watford is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2023. In 2016,The New York Times identified Watford as a potential Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Watford resigned his judgeship in 2023 and became a partner at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati.
Caren Zeldie Turner is an American lawyer and lobbyist. She formerly served as commissioner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Her involvement in a 2017 traffic stop in Tenafly,New Jersey went viral on YouTube.
John Arthur Arguelles was an American attorney and associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from March 18,1987,to March 1,1989. Arguelles was the second Latino to serve on California's high court and was one of the founding members of the Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles.
Harry P. Litman is an American lawyer,law professor and political commentator. He is a former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General. He has provided commentary in print and broadcast news and produces the Talking Feds podcast. He has taught in multiple law schools and schools of public policy.
Cynthia McClain-Hill (born Cynthia McClain;November 10,1957) is an American lawyer,policy strategist,and co-founder of Strategic Counsel,PLC. McClain-Hill represents clients engaged in significant real estate development efforts or other land use related matters,provides counsel on a variety of public-private partnerships,and is recognized as one of California’s “Super Lawyers”.
Michael Nelson Feuer is an American politician and lawyer who served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 2013 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Feuer previously served three terms in the California State Assembly,representing the 42nd Assembly District,and as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1995 to 2001,representing the 5th Council District.
The 2022 Los Angeles elections were held on June 7,2022. Voters elected candidates in a nonpartisan primary,with runoff elections scheduled for November 8,2022. Eight of the fifteen seats in the City Council were up for election while three of the seven seats in the LAUSD Board of Education were up for election. The seat of Mayor of Los Angeles was up for election due to incumbent Eric Garcetti's term limit. The seats of the Los Angeles City Controller and the Los Angeles City Attorney were also up for election,as their incumbents,Mike Feuer and Ron Galperin,were running for mayor and California State Controller respectively.
