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Iraq War Bleeds Into Civilian Life

By Steven Rodriguez

Within the last few years, veterans of the War in Iraq have returned, and criminal defense attorneys in Los Angeles and Southern California have begun to handle matters involving those veterans. In one such tragic case, the father of an Iraq war veteran accused of beating his girlfriend to death has been charged with threatening one of the woman’s friends during a courthouse confrontation. is scheduled to be arraigned next month on one misdemeanor count of making criminal threats and one misdemeanor count of battery. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 18 months in jail. The man was at the Orange County courthouse in Santa Ana on Sept. 26 awaiting his son’s arraignment in the slaying of the girlfriend, an aspiring model who was found barely breathing over Labor Day weekend in the San Clemente condo where she lived...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).