The Endless Heaps Case - Part 2

We noted in a prior post that the prosecution wanted to try Heaps on those charges on which there was a hung jury.* Now the prosecution has an OK from the judge in the case to proceed. From the Bruin: 

Judge Michael D. Carter granted the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office a retrial on all hung counts remaining against former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps on Friday. Carter informed prosecuting attorney Danette Meyers and Heaps’ attorney Tracy Green of his decision to deny the defense’s motion to dismiss a retrial, allowing the prosecution to retry the nine deadlocked charges from Heaps’ trial last year.

The charges are three counts of sexual battery by fraud, four counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and two counts of sexual exploitation of a patient. The jury in the initial trial voted 9-3 in favor of guilty in all but two of the charges...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2023/11/03/prosecution-granted-retrial-on-all-hung-counts-in-james-heaps-case.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-endless-heaps-case.html.