Lance Allan Ito is an American retired judge,best known for presiding over the criminal trial for the O. J. Simpson murder case,held in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1995.
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s,prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney,Ira Reiner. Members of the McMartin family,who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach,California,were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983,with arrests and the pretrial investigation taking place from 1984 to 1987 and trials running from 1987 to 1990. The case lasted seven years but resulted in no convictions,and all charges were dropped in 1990. By the case's end,it had become the longest and most expensive series of criminal trials in American history. The case was part of day-care sex-abuse hysteria,a moral panic over alleged Satanic ritual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Joseph Albert Wapner was an American judge and television personality. He is best known as the first presiding judge of the ongoing reality court show The People's Court. The show's first run in syndication,with Judge Wapner presiding as judge,lasted from 1981 to 1993,for 12 seasons and 2,484 episodes. While the show's second run has been presided over by multiple judges,Wapner was the sole judge to preside during the show's first incarnation. His tenure on the program made him the first jurist of arbitration-based reality court shows,which evolved into the most popular trend in the judicial genre and continues to be to the present.
Ronald Marc George is an American jurist. He previously served as the 27th Chief Justice of California from 1996 to 2011. Governor Pete Wilson appointed George as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1991 and elevated George to Chief Justice in 1996.
Bob Ronka was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the San Fernando Valley's 1st District between 1977 and 1981.
Stephen Lawrence Cooley is an American politician and prosecutor. He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012. Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008.
Roberta Frances "Bobbi" Fiedler was an American politician who served three terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from California from 1981 to 1987.
John Kalar Van de Kamp was an American politician and lawyer who served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1975 until 1981,and then as the 28th Attorney General of California from 1983 until 1991.
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.
Kazuyoshi Miura was a Japanese businessman who was accused of being involved in the killing of his wife,Kazumi Miura. The prolonged legal battle,lasting decades,ended when he presumably committed suicide in October 2008.
Carl Edwin Douglas is an American civil rights,wrongful death,personal injury,employment,and criminal defense attorney specializing in police misconduct cases. He is best known for being one of the defense attorneys in the O. J. Simpson murder case,who were collectively dubbed the "Dream Team". Douglas was the managing attorney at the law office of Johnnie Cochran Jr.,before leaving to establish The Douglas Law Group in 1998. The practice is now known as Douglas / Hicks Law. Douglas' other notable clients have included:singer Michael Jackson,actors Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah,former NFL safety Darren Sharper and rappers Tupac Shakur and Sean "Puffy" Combs.
Cynthia Holcomb Hall was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Robert Harry Philibosian was an American politician. He was appointed Los Angeles County District Attorney in 1981 when his predecessor John Van de Kamp was elected Attorney General of California. Philibosian served as district attorney until 1984 when he was defeated in countywide election by Ira Reiner. He received his B.A. degree in history from Stanford University and his J.D. degree from Southwestern Law School,and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1968.
George Gascón is an American attorney and former police officer who is the district attorney of Los Angeles County. A member of the Democratic Party and a former Republican,Gascón served as the district attorney of San Francisco from 2011 to 2019. Prior to his work as a prosecutor,he was an assistant chief of police for the LAPD,and Chief of Police in Mesa,Arizona and San Francisco.
Joshua Eric Lynn was the Chief Trial Deputy of Santa Barbara County,Santa Barbara,California from 2008 to 2010. He was the lead prosecuting attorney in the trial of Jesse James Hollywood,who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on February 5,2010. He was terminated after his loss in an election in 2010.
Burt Pines is a California attorney and politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1973 to 1981 and has served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2003.
Ara James Najarian is a Council member and four-time Mayor of Glendale,California. Najarian lost his 2016 primary race running for Board of County Supervisors during which he had the endorsement of the League of Conservation Voters.
Vicki Michele Roberts is an American attorney and an on-air legal commentator,as well as a television and film personality.
Stanley Martin Weisberg is a former prosecutor and Los Angeles County Superior Court judge known for presiding over the trials of the police officers charged with the beating of Rodney King,and of brothers Lyle and Erik Menéndez,in the trial for the murder of their parents. In a number of cases,he made controversial rulings that were subject to criticism.
William Hodgman is an American lawyer and prosecutor. He served as a prosecutor during the O. J. Simpson murder trial,a role in which he gained international attention. He also served as the Assistant District Attorney for line operations in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office.
