James Heaps – a UCLA gynecologist and a faculty member in the David Geffen School of Medicine from 1989 to 2018 – was convicted on three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual exploitation of an unconscious victim in 2022. He was originally sentenced to 11 years in state prison in 2023 but will now face a retrial. The university agreed to pay nearly $700 million in settlements to Heaps’ patients after he faced more than 500 sexual misconduct lawsuits.
The appeals court cited a note from the foreperson – the juror charged with overseeing deliberations – which said one juror experienced a significant language barrier and was unable to deliberate as reasoning for the retrial...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2026/02/02/court-reverses-former-ucla-gynecologist-sexual-battery-conviction-orders-retrial.
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