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Haidl convicted on six of nine charges; Spann on 5, Nachreiner on 4. None is convicted of rape, oral copulation or aggravated assault. Three young men, including the son of a former top Orange County sheriff’s official, were convicted today of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl during a night of partying. Gregory Haidl, 19, and Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner, both 20, were each convicted on multiple counts of sexual penetration by intoxication for the July 6, 2002, episode that Haidl videotaped at the Corona del Mar home of his father, former Assistant Orange County Sheriff Don Haidl, a millionaire...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A jury began deliberating Thursday in the retrial of a wealthy former assistant sheriff's son and two other young men accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated teen in an encounter captured on videotape. The jury of eight men and four women must choose between two starkly different scenarios: that three young men violently abused an unconscious teen, as prosecutors contend; or that a 16-year-old girl was a willing participant in what the defense claims was a "weekend sexcapade." The key evidence in the trial - the second after a jury deadlocked last year - was the...

    Whenever I think of Alejandro Avila, I think of a James Woods quote about capital punishment -- something to the effect of being able to pull the switch and sit down to dinner.   California courtrooms filled the unimaginative media last year, and the year before that, ad nauseum, come to think of it. This year will of course be no exception, with the Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, and Arlen Specter spectacles confirmed for your entertainment pleasure.   But, without hoopla, things are getting readied in Orange County for the trial of Alejandro Avila.     Samantha Runnion ...