At the last hearing for the former Miss Hoopa, Kayla Brown charged with alleged abuse of a minor female victim, her lawyer Jeffrey Schwartz declared a conflict of interest. An attorney made a special appearance that day.
Today, Brown's family contacted Mr. Ben McLaughlin, to make a general appearance on her behalf.
DDA Zach Curtis subbed in today for DDA Brie Bennett who is prosecuting the case.
Mr. McLaughlin high profile defendants, locall, most recently David Anderson and Silverio Sanchez.
David Anderson was charged with human trafficking. This was one of the many cases only covered on this blog and here is the last post on the plea deal Anderson accepted with other links to the coverage of this case.
Mr. McLaughlin is a former prosecutor with the Humboldt County District Attorney's office. He is currently a private criminal defense attorney with offices in Eureka and Crescent City and also has experience as a public defender.
When he was DDA, Mr. McLaughlin successfully prosecuted the case of a young Arcata woman and her rapist got 18 years for that rape. He also prosecuted Maggie Wortman and was the first person in the history of American jurisprudence to convict someone of homicde for killing her child with tainted breast milk.
johnchiv.blogspot.com/2014/11/human-trafficking-case-plea-offer.html
Previous posts:
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/03/humboldts-first-alleged-female-abuser.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/taken-into-custody-yesterday-alleged.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/preliminary-hearing-scheduled-for-miss.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/05/humboldts-first-female-alleged-with.html
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