Catchings
These are the articles from the first time that Addison got a full acquittal in a murder case
After the acquittal the district attorney tried a second time to send his client to prison for life, Addison shut that down
"'The average person looking into it from the outside will look at it and say, 'It's just not fair,' Steele said. 'it was a jail fight. A single punch thing. They are charging it up like it's the crime of the century.
He should not have been in jail in the first place, and now they're trying to keep him in prison because they could not convict him of murder,' Steele said.
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A jury on Oct. 17 acquitted Catchings of murder and attempted murder in connection with a June 2002 fatal shooting at a Perris apartment complex. It was the second trial for Catchings, who had been in custody since shortly after the shooting. In the previous trial, a mistrial was declared in December 2005 when jurors were deadlocked 10-2 in favor of acquittal.
The defense argued that the shooting was in self-defense and that Catchings fired after two others, including the man who died, George Bender, began firing at him. Catchings testified that he used a gun he had retrieved from someone who had been shot at by the two gunmen."
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Catchings was described in court records as a member of Los Angeles street gang who has a history of criminal activity dating back to the 1980s. He was arrested twice as a juvenile for assault with a deadly weapon, according to court records, and in July 1992 was sentenced to 12 years in state prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder that involved the use of a gun.
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Steele acknowledged Catchings has an extended criminal record, but pointed out that his client was acquitted of murder by a jury that was told about his criminal history.
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Both sides will be in court Nov. 27, when Steele will ask the judge to dismiss the assault case. If the judge denies the motion, Catchings will face another trial."
This is the newspaper article covering the district attorney trying to get a life in prison sentence after they lost the murder trial against Robbie and Addison.
"A few months ago, Robbie Catchings was looking at a potential life sentence in two separate cases.
The 38-year-old Moreno Valley man, who joined a street gang in middle school, was charged with murdering a man at a Perris apartment complex. Prosecutors also charged him with a third 'strike' for allegedly assaulting a fellow inmate while awaiting trial in jail on the murder charge.
But in a rare turn-of-events, Catchings caught a break in both cases, enabling him to walk free.
A Riverside County jury acquitted him of the murder in October after his public defender argued Catchings fired the fatal shot in self-defense. And earlier this month, a judge reduced his felony assault count to a misdemeanor. No longer facing a third strike on his record, Catchings pleaded guilty.
He got credit for time already served, and walked out of Riverside's Hall of Justice on Jan. 17 a free man.
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Steele filed several motions asking the court to dismiss the [assault] charge, drop Catchings prior strikes or cut the felony assault to a misdemeanor.
In his motions, Steele argued that Catchings had made efforts to shed his criminal past. And he contended the alleged assault victim suffered only a small facial cut that didn't rise to the level of serious injury required for the felony.
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[Catchings] said he's excited about his future and plans to stay crime free.
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He said his wife is pregnant with his first child. If it's a boy, he said he plans to name him after Steele."
These are articles that were in the Los Angeles Daily Journal that covered
Robbie and Addison beating the district attorney's second try to give Robbie a life in prison sentence
"Riverside County Superior Court Judge J. Richard Couzens ruled the half-inch cut suffered by the inmate victim during the November 2003 fight at the Southwest Detention Center in French Valley did not amount to great bodily injury and that the assault, if true, did not constitute a felony.
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'I can't believe it is finally over,' Catchings said outside the courtroom, "I can go on with my life.'
A jury acquitted Catchings on Oct. 17 of murder and attempted murder in connection with a June 2002 fatal shooting at a Perris apartment complex.
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Steele suggested that filing of the assault case was inappropriate and that prosecutors were unfairly trying to punish Catchings because of the jury's acquittal in the murder case.
Steele said Thursday in court that he was perplexed that the government was not offering an apology to Catchings."
After Robbie was acquitted of all charges in his murder case, he bailed out of jail on a "trailing" jail fight case. The first thing the district attorney tried to do was raise Robbie's bail to try to put him back in jail, even though he had sat in jail for years fighting the murder charge through two trials. Addison fought off the district attorney's tactics with a motion opposing the raising of Robbie's bail. Robbie and Addison won that motion and Robbie spent his first Christmas at home in years while Addison worked on the motions to finally end the ordeal. Addison saved Robbie's life a second time by filing three separate motions in the jail fight case. He filed a Penal Code § 995 motion attacking the sufficiency of the evidence in the jail fight case, a Romero motion asking that the strike priors be stricken, and a Penal Code § 17(b) motion asking that the jail fight case be reduced to a misdemeanor. The judge granted the motion to reduce the case to a misdemeanor which made the other two motions moot because they only applied to felony cases.
This is another article about Addison's case
An interesting side note about this article is that Jorge Estrada, whoever he is, had absolutely nothing to do with the case,
his picture in the article is a copy editor's mistake
After Addison got a hung jury on his client's first murder trial the district attorney tried to have him removed from the Case
That didn't work and in the retrial Addison's client was acquitted on all charges
anthony solis
This was the "U-Haul Murder Trial," as the press called it, Addison's client was the only one of the six co-defendants that has gone home
The other five co-defendants were convicted of charges that resulted in life without the possibility of Parole (LWOPP)
There was a jury on Addison's client's portion on the case, the case then resolved for a kidnapping charge
Addison's client is now home
"All but Solis were convicted of murder. A mistrial was declared against him."
"Solis will serve at least 85 percent of a nine-year sentence, two years of which he has already served in the Santa Barbara County Jail while awaiting trial, meaning he will serve a little more than five and a half years in state prison."
"'It's difficult for somebody to not settle for nine years when they're looking at life without parole,' Steele said."
Below are the newspaper articles on A.J.'s outcome

This is an internet article regarding Addison's client's sentencing after What the press called the "U-Haul Murder Trial,"
Addison's client is the only one of the six co-defendants that is home now.
This is the internet version of the above article
This is another article about Addison's client being sentenced to nine years after trial
All of the other co-defendants at the trial received Life without the possibility of parole
This is an article about the other five co-defendants being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
This is the Santa Maria Times article about the outcome of the case
Addison's client is the one that was not convicted
"'It's difficult for somebody to not settle a case . . . when they're looking at life without parole,' Mr. Steele said."
"Mr. Solis will be sentenced to nine years in prison but will receive two years off for time served and is only required to serve 85 percent of his sentence. He could be free in fewer than six years."

This is the internet version of the Above Article
This is the Santa Barbara News-Press article about the outcome of the trial
Addison's client is the one client that was not convicted
This is another article about the outcome of the case
This is the internet version of the above article
This is an internet article on the verdicts, Addison's client was the only one that was not convicted
This was the first Noozhawk article of the day
They posted the second article, above, after the verdicts were read
This is an article About jury deliberations
This is the internet version of the above article
This is another television article
This is another television article
This is an article from when the jury was sent out to deliberate
This is an article about the defense closing arguments
This is the internet version of the above article
This is article about Addison's closing argument
This is the internet version of the above article
This is another internet article same day
This is another television article
This is an article about one of the other defendants taking the witness stand
This is the internet version of the above article
This article shows how the six defense attorneys worked together
This was a television news story about Addison's client testifying at the trial
ON this day there were two updates in the same daY
This is the press following the trial closely
This is the internet version of the above article
This is an internet article following the progress of the trial
"Riverside County Superior Court Judge J. Richard Couzens ruled the half-inch cut suffered by the inmate victim during the November 2003 fight at the Southwest Detention Center in French Valley did not amount to great bodily injury and that the assault, if true, did not constitute a felony.
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'I can't believe it is finally over,' Catchings said outside the courtroom, "I can go on with my life.'
A jury acquitted Catchings on Oct. 17 of murder and attempted murder in connection with a June 2002 fatal shooting at a Perris apartment complex.
. . .
Steele suggested that filing of the assault case was inappropriate and that prosecutors were unfairly trying to punish Catchings because of the jury's acquittal in the murder case.
Steele said Thursday in court that he was perplexed that the government was not offering an apology to Catchings."
After Robbie was acquitted of all charges in his murder case, he bailed out of jail on a "trailing" jail fight case. The first thing the district attorney tried to do was raise Robbie's bail to try to put him back in jail, even though he had sat in jail for years fighting the murder charge through two trials. Addison fought off the district attorney's tactics with a motion opposing the raising of Robbie's bail. Robbie and Addison won that motion and Robbie spent his first Christmas at home in years while Addison worked on the motions to finally end the ordeal. Addison saved Robbie's life a second time by filing three separate motions in the jail fight case. He filed a Penal Code § 995 motion attacking the sufficiency of the evidence in the jail fight case, a Romero motion asking that the strike priors be stricken, and a Penal Code § 17(b) motion asking that the jail fight case be reduced to a misdemeanor. The judge granted the motion to reduce the case to a misdemeanor which made the other two motions moot because they only applied to felony cases.
This is another article about Addison's case
An interesting side note about this article is that Jorge Estrada, whoever he is, had absolutely nothing to do with the case,
his picture in the article is a copy editor's mistake
