BRIEFLY : TARZANA MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN FRAUD.A Tarzana man pleaded not guilty Thursday to forgery and grand theft charges stemming from an alleged scheme to pose as Burt Reynolds' manager and steal checks made out to the actor. William Patrick Bentley, 39, also faces charges of defrauding the Los Angeles Police Department's widows and orphans In typesetting, widow refers to the final line of a paragraph that falls at the top the following page of text, separated from the remainder of the paragraph on the previous page. The term can also be used to refer simply to an uncomfortably short (e.g. fund. Bentley's arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted was delayed because he complained of chest pains and difficulty breathing after he arrived at the downtown courthouse Wednesday from the Men's Central Jail. He is being held in lieu of $104,000 bail. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Abraham Khan set an Aug. 31 preliminary hearing for Bentley in the Reynolds case. - City News Service Motorist extricated after crash on 101 A 33-year-old motorist driving a pickup truck spun out after making an unsafe lane change on the westbound Ventura Freeway near Haskell Avenue, colliding with the trailer of a big rig, officials said Thursday. Jesus A. Dominguez, 33, had just made the transition from the northbound 405 Freeway in his 1986 Dodge pickup when he changed lanes and his pickup collided with the truck, said California Highway Patrol Officer Ron Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. . Firefighters removed Dominguez from the truck around 1 p.m. with the Jaws of Life Jaws of Life A trademark used for a pneumatic tool consisting of a pincerlike metal device that is inserted into the body of a severely damaged vehicle and opened to provide access to people trapped inside. Noun 1. and transported him to Encino Medical Center in fair condition with minor injuries, officials said. - Daily News Federal judge halts deportation of girl A federal judge Thursday temporarily barred the deportation of a 15-year-old Romanian girl who was placed in county custody after her father was convicted of sexually abusing her. U.S. District Judge Carlos R. Moreno Carlos R. Moreno (born November 4, 1948) is an American jurist. He is currently an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Moreno received his B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1970 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1975. set a hearing for Aug. 30 to further discuss the case of the girl, who is listed as ``Roberta'' in court papers. Two months after the teen-ager arrived in the United States in 1997, she was made a ward of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial . Her father pleaded guilty to the charges last March and was released from custody in October. Although her foster family wants to adopt her, Juvenile Court Commissioner Stanley Genser ordered that the girl be reunited in Romania with her mother, who apparently does not want her and is unable to provide for her, said Dan Grunfeld, a lawyer with Public Counsel's Office, which has taken up the girl's cause. Genser had ordered that the teen leave the country by today. - City News Service Latino PAC raises $500,000 since May A political action committee aimed at increasing the number of Latinos holding public office has raised record contributions in its first three months, records show. Hispanic Unity USA has raised $500,000 since May under the guidance of its chairwoman, U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Garden Grove. Sanchez hopes to raise $2 million to $4 million in the next two years to help local, state and federal candidates who are either Latino or support Latino agendas. The committee also will use the money for voter education and registration drives. - Associated Press Court throws out $6.65 million award A judge overturned a jury's $6.65 million award in favor of a worker hired to clean a film lab with what he alleged were toxic and cancer-causing chemicals, a lawyer said Thursday. In April, Ross Gunnell was awarded $1.65 million in compensatory damages A sum of money awarded in a civil action by a court to indemnify a person for the particular loss, detriment, or injury suffered as a result of the unlawful conduct of another. and $5 million in punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. in Los Angeles Superior Court. He and three other men had sued Metrocolor Laboratories Inc. and other firms that successively owned the same film processing lab on the old MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. lot. Because of legal technicalities, the jury deliberated only on the case involving Gunnell and Metrocolor Laboratories, said the plaintiff's attorney plaintiff's attorney n. the attorney who represents a plaintiff (the suing party) in a lawsuit. In lawyer parlance a "plaintiff's attorney" refers to a lawyer who regularly represents persons who are suing for damages, while a lawyer who is regularly chosen by an , Martina Silas. On Aug. 12, Silas said, the judge threw out the jury's verdict on the grounds that Gunnell's claims were legally barred by the Workers' Compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. Act. Gunnell had tried to allege that because the employer removed warning labels in front of him, the alleged exposure constituted a ``toxic assault,'' and therefore his was not a workers' compensation case. Silas said she will appeal. - City News Service |
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