Retired Fourth District Court of Appeal Justice Thomas Goethals said Friday he will always remember the day he came to work more than a decade ago and was met with a voluminous motion that would not ...

Scott Sanders, a longtime Orange County public defender, changed local history in 2013, when he told a judge about evidence ...

A passionate advocate for those accused of heinous killings, Sanders has earned praise for his methodical work to expose ...

Scott Sanders, who shook up the Orange County justice system by challenging the use of jailhouse informants and unearthing a scandal that has impacted dozens of cases — including that of the worst ...

Goethals is the rare jurist to have prosecuted, defended and presided over death penalty cases during a decades-long career.

The scandal that scrambled Orange County’s justice system, upending dozens of murder cases, began late on a Friday night in a legal office that formerly was a morgue. It was April 2012, long ...

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer has been ordered to release data related to accusations of racial bias, in a ...

Orange County authorities are investigating after an inmate died inside his cell at a Santa Ana facility. The 55-year-old inmate, who has yet to be identified, was found unresponsive in his cell ...