Kayla Brown is the former Miss Hoopa charged with alleged sexual abuse of a female minor.
Her preliminary hearing has been on hold since Mr. Jeffrey Schwartz declared conflict. Then her family paid Mr. McLaughlin for two special appearances.
Victim's family was in court. Brown's family was not in court this afternoon, most likely due to Ms. Linkous stating that Kayla Brown was "under doctor's care of with a serious condition" and after Judge John Feeney denied the defense request for a 30 day trial setting, she said that they may need to continue preliminary because Brown may not be available for the preliminary hearing. Defense plans to hire an investigator and said they wanted 30 days for trial setting due to more discovery they anticipate from the People.
"Due to no fault of yours," Judge Feeney said to Ms. Linkous, "the case has been continued quite a few times."
Defense request for trial setting was denied after DDA Brie Bennett said that the victim's family was getting frustrated with case being continued. The People objected to the trial setting date in 30 days and instead asked that dates be set for a Preliminary hearing.
Preliminary hearing on August 12.Intervention on July 22.
Discovery issues were cited by defense. Ms. Bennett said the People plan to meet with the defense before intervention to make sure discovery is complete and to make sure they received all the discovery that the People had given Mr. Schwartz.
Ryan Burns from LOCO was in court.
May 29, 2015
Still no preliminary hearing for former Miss Hoopa charged with sexual abuse of female minor
Today, Kayla Brown's case was scheduled for confirmation of counsel in Courtroom 1. Mr. Ben McLaughlin "specially appeared" again for Brown, who will not be in court due to her personal appearance being waived. Her family has signed a legal agreement with Mr. McLaughlin but payment is still to be made so another confirmation of counsel hearing is set for June 11 at 2 p.m.
Both, the victim and the defendant's families were in court.
DDA Brie Bennett is prosecuting this case.
Last post:
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/05/former-miss-hoopa-charged-with-alleged.html
Previous posts:
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/05/humboldts-first-female-alleged-with.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/preliminary-hearing-scheduled-for-miss.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/taken-into-custody-yesterday-alleged.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/03/humboldts-first-alleged-female-abuser.html
Both, the victim and the defendant's families were in court.
DDA Brie Bennett is prosecuting this case.
Last post:
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/05/former-miss-hoopa-charged-with-alleged.html
May 18, 2015
Former Miss Hoopa charged with alleged sexual abuse of minor female victim plans to retain one of the area's most successful criminal defense attorney
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
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
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/05/humboldts-first-female-alleged-with.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/preliminary-hearing-scheduled-for-miss.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/taken-into-custody-yesterday-alleged.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/03/humboldts-first-alleged-female-abuser.html
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