Christopher Goffard is an author and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He shared in the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s Bell coverage and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing, in 2007 and 2014. His novel “Snitch Jacket” was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. His book “You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya,” based on his Times series, was published in 2011.
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After eight days of deliberations, the jury was split 11 to 1 in favor of convicting Jeffrey Ferguson, who said he fumbled and accidentally fired, killing his wife.
Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, an experienced gun owner, shot his wife in their family room in August 2023 after an evening of heavy drinking. His attorneys will argue it was an accident.
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The FBI would eventually call John Orr the most prolific serial arsonist of the 20th century, and when he went on trial in 1998, prosecutors presented his manuscript as a thinly veiled memoir of his crimes.
Alhambra police officers fatally shot a man Saturday as he advanced on them with a knife, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The anticipated Trial of the Century never happened. It was Darrow himself who went on trial. The accusation: bribery.
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