EL CAJON (Sept. 18, 2009)  — A Superior Court jury acquitted an El Cajon man of two counts of murder today in the deaths of two motorists killed in a 2008 traffic accident in Ramona.

The verdict came on the third day of deliberations in a case in which defense attorney Kerry Steigerwalt told the panel [...]

15 years-to Life for Murder by Throwing Ex-Girlfriend over Balcony
Last Wednesday Eduardo Duarte, 38, was told by the Chula Vista Superior Court Judge that “…you sure made a mess of things. You destroyed a lot of lives and I’m not talking about yours.”
Duarte had been convicted of murder for throwing his ex-girlfriend over an [...]

Family disagreements can get out of hand at times and even lead to death.  Adam James Brown, 42, is being accused of stabbing his 77-year-old mother to death.  He is facing a murder trial as determined by a judge.
Brown confessed his guilt to a sheriff’s deputy at the San Diego Hall of Justice on June [...]

There are two sides of the story, so the courts need to decide if it was self defense or if it was pure aggression.  On May 29th, Nathaniel Ward, 25, died from a punch to the head that caused a blunt-force injury to his brain.  His buddy Colin Costanzo was with him at the time [...]

A neighbor was out walking her dog around 10:15 am in the area of 10400 block of Strathmore Drive when she found the body of Maureen Weaver, 50.  It didn’t take long for the police department to connect Weaver’s ex-husband to the murder.  
60-year-old Frank Alexander Weaver was arrested four days later in Meridian, Idaho.  [...]