"an indictment of California's criminal justice system which allows criminals to threaten public safety and prey upon the most vulnerable."
"These brave survivors suffered through a four-year ordeal of prosecution and trial resulting in an 11-year prison sentence for this monster,"
"Now they are being told that they must start over. ... Our criminal justice system needs reforms th"
An appeals court overturned the conviction of James Heaps, a 69-year-old former UCLA gynecologist, and ordered a retrial after concluding the trial judge failed to notify defense lawyers that jurors had raised concerns about the English proficiency of one panel member. Heaps had been convicted in October 2022, after a two-month jury trial, of three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual penetration involving two patients. Jurors acquitted him on two other patient charges and deadlocked on four additional counts. Heaps was sentenced in April 2023 to 11 years. The University of California paid nearly $700 million to settle lawsuits from hundreds of alleged victims, and attorneys for many former patients condemned the reversal and called for criminal justice reforms.
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