Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona gets 5 1/2 years and fined $125,000 (tags)
In a bid for leniency the former Sheriff said he regrets the words he used on a secret recording that led to his witness tampering conviction but did not take any responsibility for illegally trying to influence the grand jury testimony of his former assistant Don Haidl.
Ex-Sheriff Michael Carona's Corruption Trail started today (tags)
Orange county: Officer Shoots Unarmed 19-Year Old (tags)
As far as a political discussion, this would probably fall under the same category as Amadou Diallo Case, and Abner Louima in an example of law enforcement brutality bordering on outright criminality. Here are the relevant facts: