James Queally
Crime: Real & Imagined.
L.A. Times Courts/Chaos Reporter
Proud Union Pain In The Ass
Alleged Author: Russell Avery Novels (Formerly Polis, Now Counterpoint)
Rep: @jmcgowanbks
- After yesterday's historic court ruling, Erik & Lyle Menendez now have three possible paths to freedom through the courts and via Gov. Gavin Newsom's pen. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- The Knicks are great and they finally made a fire Superman movie … big week for 12-year-old James.
- I own more than too many comic books. I have thought Superman was pretty freakin' lame my whole life. I am already blocking out my day on July 11th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox8Z...
- BREAKING: The Menendez Brothers have been resentenced to 50 years to life in prison. They will get a parole hearing. Judge Jesic ruled the D.A.’s office failed to prove they pose an unreasonable risk to public safety.
- The Menendez Brothers resentencing hearing has finally begun. @lacrimes.bsky.social & I are live in the courtroom, where Erik and Lyle's cousins are delivering emotional testimony asking an L.A. judge to give the brothers their first chance at freedom in 35+ years. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Almost no one arrested in 2024 campus protests over the war in Gaza faced criminal charges. The L.A. City Attorney's decision making has angered people on both sides of last year's demonstrations and drawn bias allegations. Latest from me & @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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- Menendez brothers' bid for freedom set to reach a courtroom next week. Latest w/ @lacrimes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
- NEW: The Menendez Brothers re-sentencing hearing will finally take place next week, starting on May 13th. It's expected to last two days in the Van Nuys Courthouse.
- Ah, now the Knicks last two games make sense.
- "Proceed With Caution As He Might Still Have The Chainsaw" is one of the more metal things I've seen written on a court exhibit lately.
- The only good thing about getting bad news as a writer is you can just start writing your way to the next win. Blank page is just another opportunity.
- If you want the real skinny on what's going on at the L.A. Times right now, now's as good a time as any to follow @latguild.bsky.social , brand new to Blue Sky!
- This is a cursed image.
- SCOOP: Sources tell us several L.A. federal prosecutors resigned after Trump-appointed U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli offered a plea deal to an L.A. Sheriff's deputy who'd already been convicted in excessive force case. w/ @brittnymejia.bsky.social & @keribla.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
- The Los Angeles Times is laying off journalists again, their latest attempt to cut their way to rock bottom with no business plan. If you'd like to help the affected journalists, you can donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...
- Jalen Brunson Is My President
- NEW: The L.A. D.A.’s office is modifying its policy on charging sex crimes following yesterday’s report from me & @lacrimes.bsky.social on case backlog delaying charges against a soccer coach who went onto allegedly kill a 13-year-old boy. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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- We have reached "text At The Drive-In lyrics at someone in all caps to achieve union actions" levels of May Day. Proud to be an L.A. Times Guild member today and every day.
- SCOOP: California Attorney General Rob Bonta is considering placing L.A.'s juvenile halls in receivership, basically removing them from L.A. County's control, after years of chaos inside the youth facilities. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
- A backlog of cases in the L.A. D.A.'s office played a role in delaying sex abuse charges against a youth soccer coach who went on to murder a 13-year-old boy. The D.A.'s office had the case for 10 months before it acted. Latest from me & @lacrimes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
- It’s that time of year where I’m humming the Inside The NBA theme around my house in the morning the way some people sing Christmas music.
- Coming to L.A. Times #festivalofbooks today? Pop by Confessions of a Crime Reporter at 1 p.m. to hear me @lacrimes.bsky.social talk about our combined 40+ years (OK, most of that is him) covering cops, courts and chaos in the City of Angels.
- Coming to the L.A. Times Festival of Books this weekend? Want to see two crime reporters of questionable sanity talk about our fun, but maddening, profession? The notorious @lacrimes.bsky.social and I will spend 45 minutes yelling at each other in Mudd Hall at 1pm on Saturday, April 26!
- Same — damn eating healthy — but the Pad See Ew I just picked up should fix that
- An L.A. County judge took a major step toward shuttering troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall today, months after a state oversight body found it unsuitable to house youth. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
- The Menendez brothers bid for freedom won't reach a courtroom until May. A fight over access to a risk assessment ordered by Gov. Newsom, and a push to disqualify the L.A. D.A.'s office, have stalled the case for a month. My latsest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Courtroom hallway chatter from one of the Menendez brothers attorneys is that Judge Jesic is unlikely to delay hearing, but they are still arguing (Reporters are barred from having phones or laptops in the courtroom, so that's why you're not getting any live updates.)
- "If I was desperate and afraid of the truth I'd do the same thing," defense attorney Mark Geragos says of L.A. D.A.'s office motion to delay resentencing hearing in Menendez Brothers case.
- The Menendez brothers face a key resentencing hearing over the next few days that could end with them eligible for parole … unless the L.A. D.A.’s request for a delay is granted www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Rewatching The Last Of Us was a masochistic life choice.
- Here's everything I know about the spate of overdoses yesterday at a Los Angeles juvenile hall -- Overdoses at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall mark latest scandal for embattled Downey facility www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Bernie Sanders booking political rallies with better musical acts than most U.S. festivals this year was not on my bingo card. The Armed, Jeff Rosenstock, Indigo de Souza, Maggie Rogers, Neil Young, Joan Baez, etc.?
- A 7-year-old girl was found unconscious in a bathtub in Van Nuys late Friday. Her mother has been arrested and will likely face charges in her daughter's drowning, according to LAPD. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- BREAKING: A judge has rejected L.A. D.A. Nathan Hochman's bid to revoke a petition to resentence the Menendez Bros., filed by his predecessor George Gascon. A resentencing hearing will move forward next week.
- BREAKING: Monica Sementelli guilty of masterminding the murder of her husband, L.A. hair mogul Fabio Sementelli. Prosecutors alleged Monica directed her lover to stab her husband to death in a plot to collect life insurance. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- BREAKING: Two ex-Torrance cops have pled guilty to vandalism for spray painting a swastika in a 2021 case that revealed TPD officers were engaged in a racist homophobic text thread where cops often used slurs and joked about killing Black suspects. www.latimes.com/california/s...
