Articles have featured Attorneys Addison Steele & Christine Voss

in Santa Barbara, CA

Christine & Addison have been included in many Internet articles

Christine Voss & Addison Steele have been featured in

several press articles and television news stories. 

Below is a selection of some of the articles and televisions news stories.

Christine & Addison have been featured in television news stories countless times

These are screen shots from the times they've been on television

This is Addison being interviewed after after defending a person that could be impacted by social media search warrant

This is Addison being interviewed after successfully quashing a social media search warrant that would have impacted

thousands of People that were student protesters or simply interacted with the political activity social media sites

This is Addison being interviewed after after defending a person that could be impacted by social media search warrant

This is Addison in a television news story, he was a speaker at a black lives matter demonstration after the killing of George Floyd

This is Christine in the same television news story

This is Christine appearing in court on the Pierre Haobsh case

This is Christine being interviewed on television after Nicolas Holzer's first court appearance

This is Christine being interviewed on television about the nicolas holzer case

This is Christine on television during a piece on Nicolas holzer being indicted by a grand jury

This is Addison being interviewed for a television news story at the Santa Maria courthouse

This is a television news story where Addison was being interviewed with his client

This is a television news story that featured Addison in action in the courtroom and then an interview after the Court Appearance

This is another television news story that featured Addison in action in the courtroom

This is another time that Addison was being interviewed for a television news story at the Santa Maria courthouse

This is when Addison was Appearing on television in Santa Maria on the "operation Matador" Also called the "MS13 case"

During what the press called the "U-Haul Murder trial" they were allowed record the entire trial,

so portions of the trial were featured on the news throughout the trial

This is when Addison on television arguing an issue during the trial

This is Christine being interviewed outside of the courthouse after appearing on the Nicolas holzer case

Christine and Addison's cases have also been featured

in countless newspaper and Internet articles

These are articles regarding awards that Addison has won Or recognition he's received

This Is the article from when Addison was named the California Public Defenders Association Defender of the Year Award

CPDA is a Statewide Criminal Defense organization, Defender of the Year is the Noble prize of Criminal Defense in California  

 "A Riverside County deputy public defender who has won several cases by putting on an aggressive defense that often includes putting the accused on the witness stand will receive a state organization's top honor today.


R. Addison Steele II was named the Defender of the Year for 2009 by the California Public Defenders Association.

. . .

   He earned it for 'solid legal work and an uncompromising concern for clients,' the organization said.

. . .

  'The way I look at the case is, I only keep my client off the stand if I have to. That is very different,' he said in a telephone interview. He teaches other attorneys his methods.

. . .

  Steele's 'ability to enable the community--the jury--to see the client as a human being, to see the client through his eyes, is amazing,' said Assistant Public Defender Robert Willey."


This is the internet version of the above Article

"The stakes were high, and, on the surface, the case looked tough to defend.

   Howard Robertson faced a charge of snatching a woman's purse, a crime that could send the ex-convict back to prison for life as a three-striker.

   Prosecutors told jurors about Robertson's previous prison time for robbing a string of banks in the 1980s. And the defendant looked menacing, sporting prison tattoos, including a satanic insignia on his forehead and a swastika on his hand.


   But the defendant's lawyer, Riverside County Deputy Public Defender R. Addison Steele II, persuaded jurors to vote for acquittal.

The Robertson case last year was part of an amazing winning streak by Steele. The high number of wins makes him one of the most victorious lawyers in his office and perhaps the state. In the past year, he won acquittals for one man facing a murder charge and three others on trial for attempted murder, all of whom were eligible for life sentences.

. . .

   'That's certainly very impressive,' said Kathleen B. Cannon, San Diego County deputy public defender and president of the California Public Defenders Association.

   For his work, Steele's office recently gave him its highest honor. The Public Defender Award.

   Assistant Public Defender Robert Willey said Steele is one of the top deputies in the 149-attorney office.

   'Addison has a skill of really helping the jury see [a defendant] as a person and not just a label and a background,' Willey said.

. . .

   In another of Steele's high-profile wins, the defender secured a murder acquittal in October for Robbie Catchings, a Moreno Valley resident prosecutors said shot and killed a man at a Perris apartment complex in 2002. Steele also persuaded a judge to reduce to a misdemeanor a felony assault charge against Catchings in a separate case that could have exposed the defendant to a life sentence under the three-strikes law.


   Catchings walked free as a result.

. . .

   Jenny Reis, a Corona woman who served on the jury that acquitted Catchings, said Steele's 'down-to-earth' evidence presentation helped his credibility with the jury.

. . .

   She also said she could tell Steele 'thoroughly believed' in his client's innocence.


   'He was so passionate,' Reis said. 'He reminded me of a parent defending [his or her] child.'"


  • Addison has had such an impressive streak of trial wins that he was featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a newspaper that is highly respected in the legal community. It appears that no other criminal defense attorney has been featured in such article in the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

This is the Daily Journal masthead right above the article

   "The Riverside County public defender's office presented awards Friday night to a staff committed to providing opportunity and hope.


Deputy Public Defender Addison Steele won the top award for his embodiment of what it means to fill that role, said Robert Willey, assistant public defender, Steele spent 115 days in trial in 2007 and thanked the entire office for helping him win the case of Robbie Catchings, who was charged with murder and acquitted by jury.


'As you can see I didn't win a murder trial, we won a murder trial,' Steele wrote in an e-mail to staff, Willey said.


Another client, Howard Robertson, was acquitted and with the help of Steele made it to his sister's home in Mississippi where he has started a new life, Willey said."


This is an article that we found that certainly ages Christine

Christine was attorney of the year at the Santa Barbara County Public defenders office in 1998 AND 2013

Addison was also the Attorney of the Year at the Santa Barbara County Public Defenders Office in 2002


These are articles from some of Christine and Addison's CASES THAT WERE FOLLOWED BY THE PRESS

Starting with the homicide trials

Haobsh

This is the Haobsh Quadruple murder trial

The district Attorney sought the death penalty

defense attorneys consider a case where the prosecution seeks a death sentence

that Does not result in a death sentence  an absolute win

Christine negotiated to waive a jury in exchange for death "coming off the table," at that point the case was won and

Pierre was saved from death row

After the trial the Santa Barbara Independent did a "recap" story

This is the internet version of the above article

The press Followed the trial very closely

This is the internet version of the above article

this is another article from when Christine's client testified

Once the trial started the press followed it almost daily

This is an article about Christine attacking the prosecution's case

This is more of the almost daily coverage of the trial

This is an article from when the prosecution was presenting their side of the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is more coverage of the contents of Christine's Client's computer searches

This is more coverage of Christine's client's digital examination

This is more of the almost daily coverage of the trial

It didn't take long for the prosecution to get to the gory photos

This is part of the almost daily press coverage of the trial

This is an article about Christine's Client's police interrogation

This is an article from when the trial was getting started

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another internet article about the trial getting started

This is an article from when Christine won the case

Defense attorneys consider a death penalty case where the client does not end up on death Row an absolute victory

Christine negotiated away the death penalty in exchange for waiving jury in a case,

that's clear from the press, did not have jury appeal,

she got the death penalty taken off the table while giving up very little

This is the internet version of the above article, it has much more detail

This is an article about how Christine won her client's case by saving him from Death Row

This is an article about what led to Christine saving her client from Death Row

This is an article about the litigation that was caused by the pandemic

This is an article about the adjustments that had to be made during the pandemic

This is an article about the litigation that was caused by the pandemic

This is an article from the press following the case closely

This is a commentary on Governor Newsom's moratorium on Death Sentences in which Christine's case is featured

This is an article where the press was following routine court appearances

This is another article where the press was following routine court appearances

This is an article about when Christine convinced the judge to issue a gag order

so the prosecution Wouldn't be able to taint the jury pool

This is another article about the gag order

This is the article from when the district attorney announced that she would seek the death penalty against Christine's client

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the District Attorney seeking the death penalty

This is another article about the district Attorney seeking the death penalty

This is an article about when the district attorney was considering seeking the death-Penalty for Christine's client

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article from shortly before the district attorney announced that she would be seeking the Death Penalty

This is a cover story that the Santa Barbara Independent did on the Haobsh case after the preliminary hearing

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

This is an internet article where the press was following Christine's triple murder case

This is another article about the case

This is more coverage of Christine's client's Preliminary hearing

This is another article about the case

This is more coverage of Christine's client's preliminary Hearing

This is additional coverage of Christine's client's preliminary hearing

This is another article about the case

This is an article about the preliminary hearing starting up

This is an article about one of the many times that Christine's client would say in court that he wanted a new lawyer

or to represent himself and then change his mind and decide that he was happy with his lawyer

This is another internet article about Christine's case

This is another article about the case

This article is a recap of Noozhawk's sixteen most viewed stories

Christine's client is two of the sixteen

Articles about Christine's client were the second and Fourth most viewed of the year

one of the articles about Christine's client had more views than the article about the Sherpa Fire

Every development in the case was closely watched by the press

This article is the press following routine court dates

The Press followed even the most insignificant court dates in this case

The Press followed even the most insignificant court dates in this case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

The press followed every development in the case

This is another article about the Case

This is another article about the case

This is an article from when Christine's client entered his not guilty plea at arraignment

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about Christine's client being arraigned and entering a not guilty plea

This is article about Christine fighting for access to her client

This is the internet Version of the above article

This article shows how this case was a fight from the very beginning

This is an article that shows how closely the case was followed by the press

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

These are articles once Christine's client appeared in court

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

These are other article's about Christine's client's arrest

This is an article from when Christine's triple-Homicide case first appeared in Court

This is an article from the beginning of the case

This received national and even international press when it started

This is another article from the beginning of Christine's Triple murder Pierre Haobsh Case

Holzer

This is the Holzer case

He was charged with the quadruple murder of his parents and two sons

defense attorneys consider a case where the prosecution seeks a death sentence

that Does not result in a death sentence  an absolute win

Christine met with the district attorney when She was making her decision whether or not to seek the Death penalty

Christine made a mitigation presentation and convinced the district attorney to no seek a death Sentence

at that point the case was won and

Nick was saved from death row


This is a santa Barbara Independent cover story exposing mental health issues in the criminal justice system

that focuses on Christine's quadruple murder client Nicolas holzer

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about Christine's comments regarding the Criminal justice and mental illness

This is another article about the case

this is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article written during Christine's Holzer quadruple murder trial

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article from after the sanity phase of the trial had started

This is another article about the case

This is another article from after the penalty phase of the trial had started

This is an article about Christine absolutely destroying the prosecutions expert witness on cross examination

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

The press followed almost every day of the trial

This is an article regarding Christine's client's mental Health issues

This is the internet version of the above article

The press followed almost every day of the trial

The Press reported on almost every witness that testified at the trial

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is an article from right before Christine's quadruple Murder case went to trial

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about the end of the first phase of the trial

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is the public radio Station article about the trial starting

This is an article from when the trial began

This is an article about Christine's client waiving jury for his trial, there were several tactical reasons to do so

This is the press following A routine court appearance

The press followed the case so closely that even continuances were covered

This article is the press following even routine court appearances

This is more of the press following routine court dates

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is an article about the work that was done to address mental health issues

This is an article about when Christine's client entered a not guilty by reason of insanity plea

This is another article about when Christine's client entered a not guilty by reason of insanity case

This is another article about Christine's Holzer quadruple homicide case, the press seemed to follow every detail of the case

This is an article about Christine's Holzer quadruple murder case, the press followed the case closely

This is an article about the Arraignment on the indictment

This is an article about Christine's client's declining health that resulted from his mental health issues

This is another article about Christine's client's declining health that resulted from his mental heath issues

This article is when Christine won the case

Defense attorneys consider any non-death row outcome in a capital case an absolute win

One of the ways a capital case is won is the mitigation meeting with the district attorney

Christine was able to convince the district Attorney to not seek death at the mitigation meeting despite it being quadruple homicide

This article shows the district attorney's position that they were not going to settle the case

This is an article from when Christine's client entered a not guilty plea to the indictment

This is another Article from when Christine's client was arraigned on the indictment

This is another article about the arraignment on the indictment

This is another article about the arraignment on the indictment

This is another article about the arraignment on the indictment

This is another article about the arraignment on the Indictment

This is an article about Christine's client being indicted by a grand Jury

This is another article about Christine's client being indicted by a Grand Jury

This is an article from the Westmont college student paper, the Horizon

This is press coverage of Christine's client's arraignment

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article where the press was following almost every court date

This is an article about Christine's client's arraignment

This is a television article, Christine was interviewed on camera after the court appearance

The press followed almost every court appearance

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article where the press was following the case closely

This is an article from when Christine took advantage of being able to disqualify one judge one time on each case

This is a television news story, the press was following the case closely

The case was so impactful on Santa Barbara that at the beginning the press followed every court date

This is an article from when the Santa Barbara independent started covering Christine's Holzer quadruple murder case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is the initial Press on Christine's quadruple murder case

This is more of the initial press

This is the internet version of the article from the same date

These are articles from out of the area from when the case first started

This is The first press that the case had once it got to court

this is some of the television press from the beginning of the case

This is the press from a different television station

Ramos

This is the article from the third time that Addison Got a full acquittal in a murder Trial

"The jury acquitted Mr. Brewer's co-defendant, 27 year-old Rudy Ramos [whose lawyer was Addison Steele],

of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter."

This is another article about the case

This is an earlier article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case


Christy

This is the article from the second time that Addison got an acquittal on All homicide related charges

   "On Thursday the panel reached verdicts on Jaray Christy, 26, and on Tuesday returned their votes on co-defendant Jerron Henderson, 21, both charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Marshawn Burns, 29, of Moreno Valley.

   Jurors acquitted both men in the death of Burns, and also found them not guilty on counts of robbery and attempted robbery unrelated to the liquor store holdup.

  They also found not true the enhancement allegations of gang activity in a violent felony.

. . .

   The second key moment came when a prosecution witness, whom [co-defendant's attorney Darryl] Exum said was a gang member, was identified by a woman under examination by Christy's defense attorney Steele as the man who had robbed her--for a charge in which Christy had been named.

  It was one of the robbery charges separate from the Alessandro Liquor holdup.

  'That kind of lost the case for the prosecution as a whole,' Exum said."

. . .

  'We ate up two months of a civil courtroom, where regular people from Riverside should have been having their injuries resolved and their contracts disputes resolved,' Steele said.

  He estimated his client originally faced 71 years to life, and now faces perhaps a possible maximum of six years, four months."


These are the articles from Jaray and Addison's murder trial victory.

This is some press that the case got before it went to trial

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.

. . .

   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."

. . .

   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.

. . .

   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.

. . .

   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.

. . .

  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.

. . .

   [Catchings] said he's excited about his future and plans to stay crime free.

. . .

   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.

. . .

  '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

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

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about Addison's client taking the witness stand during the "U-Haul Murder Trial"

The prosecution had rested, now it was the defense's turn, Addison started with a defense gang expert

The Press followed the case so closely that there were daily television updates

ON This day there were four updates throughout the day

This is an article from the prosecution rested their case

This is an internet article from when the prosecution rested their case and the defense could start their case

This is an article about when the prosecution had finished their case and it was the defense's turn to present evidence

This is the internet version of the above article

ThE article about the Defense Attorneys Questioning the police officers involved in the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about the "gang detective's" testimony

This is an internet article tracking the progress of the trial at Week Seven

This is a television news article showing how closely the press was following the case

Addison is in the middle of the photo between his client Ray Maldonado

This is another article about the defense attorneys questioning the police officers involved in the case

This is another Television article

This is another television article

The trial was watched so closely by the press that there were two posting on the same day

This is an article about the defense attorneys questioning the forensic pathologist

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another Television article

This is another Television article

This is an article about a Hearing that happened during the trial

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about a hearing once the trial had started

This is a television article from the same day

This is an article about opening statements in the "U-Haul murder trial"

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about opening statements in the "U-Haul Murder trial"

This is an article about the evidence phase of the "U-Haul Murder" trial starting

This is an article about jury selection in the case

This is another Article about Jury selection

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article where the press was watching the case very closely

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about jury selection finally beginning in this case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the lengthy jury selection in this case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about the beginning of Jury selection in what the Press called "The U-Haul Trial"

This is another article about jury selection

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about jury selection

This is another article about the litigation battle before the trial started

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about jury selection

This is an article about Addison's second change of venue motion in the "U-Haul Murder" case

This is another article about Addison's second change of venue Motion

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another internet article regarding the second change of venue motion

This is an article about the "U-Haul murder" case Pre-trial motions

This article is about one of the co-defendants, but Addison is mentioned

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article from near the beginning of the "U-Haul Murder" Trial

The Press followed the case very closely, even routine continuances were covered

This is another article about the same subject as above

This is the internet version of the Above Article

This is another article about the case

This is another internet Article about Addison's First change of venue motion in the "U-Haul Murder" case

This is another article about the change of venue motion

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another Article About the first change of venue motion

This is another article from Addison's first change of venue motion in the "U-Haul Murder" case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

Of the original eleven co-defendants only six went to trial

This is another article about the case

This is the internet Version of the above article

These articles from when the case started actually moving forward

These are articles from when the district attorney decided to not seek the death penalty

This is one of the earlier articles about the case

cebreros

This is the Article from when Addison won a capital murder case by saving his client from Death Row

This was a seven month's long trial, it was a battle to save Addison's client from Death Row from the beginning to the end

Amazingly this is all the press the case got, capital murder trials were so common in Riverside County that they didn't get much press



mendoza

This is the Article from when Addison saved his client from Death Row With a successful mid-Trial Motion

Special Circumstance out in slaying casE

This is the teaser that was at the bottom of the front page or the Local section. 

This is the article.

This is press that the case got before it went to trial

Lopez

This is a murder trial that Christine won when she was in her twenties

This is an article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is the Santa Barbara Independent article from when the jury went out to deliberate

Aguilar

This is an article about a murder trial that Addison won

Defense attorneys consider any murder that results in less than life in prison an absolute win

This client was only convicted of manslaughter, he served about ten years and went home,

instead of serving the rest of his life in prison

   "When Edward Tony Aguilar stabbed a Winchester man twice last year--once in the throat--and killed him while he was driving, it wasn't murder.

   After a week of deliberations, a jury at Southwest Justice Center found that Jon Willson was killed during a sudden quarrel and convicted Aguilar of voluntary manslaughter.

   The verdict shocked the prosecutor and friends and family of the victim.

. . .

   Aguilar, 38, of Menifee, showed little emotion as he listened to the verdicts that mean he'll someday be able to go home.

   His attorney, Deputy Public Defender Addison Steele, said Aguilar and his family had hoped he'd be going home Thursday, had the jury agreed with the defense argument that Aguilar killed Willson in self-defense.

   If Aguilar had been found guilty of either first or second-degree murder, he could have spent the rest of his life in prison. Now, the most time he can serve is 14 years in prison, his attorney said.

. . .

  'I would have been happier if he had been able to go home today, but I'm still happy with this verdict,' Steele said outside the courtroom.

  Willson was stabbed twice--first in the right side and then in the throat--while driving his pickup with Aguilar as the lone passenger April 10, 2003. Willson's body was found slumped in his pickup hidden in an orange grove in the Woodcrest area of south Riverside. Aguilar left it there and fled to an uncle's nearby home before he burned the clothes he worn during the slaying.

. . .

  Steele said jurors told him that when they first began deliberating last week, they were split evenly in four ways: Three thought Aguilar was guilty of first degree murder, three second degree murder, three believed it to be voluntary manslaughter and three more felt he was not guilty because it was self-defense.

  'They said they worked through every bit of evidence in there,' Steele said, 'I think they just came to the conclusion that Edward was afraid of Jon.'

   Jurors also told him that Aguilar made the right decision to testify: 'They said they realize he contradicted himself several times, but they still came away thinking he was afraid.'"

This is the article from the sentencing

The judge was bothered that Addison's client had won the trial so he gave him the maximum for the lesser offense

Addison calls this the victory tax

That's when the life sentence charge or charges are beaten and the judge gives the maximum for whatever is left

This is the article from when the verdict came in

This is another article about the case

This is another Article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case


alvarez leon

This is the article from when Christine won her manslaughter and her client was acquitted of all charges

This is an article from when the investigating officer threatened the co-defendant's lawyer

The Press closely followed Christine's Manslaughter trial

This is an article from when the trial started

This is an article after opening statements in Christine's Manslaughter trial

This is an article which shows how closely the press was watching Christine's Manslaughter case

This is another article about Christine's manslaughter case in which her client was acquitted of all charges

This is an article after the conclusion of the preliminary hearing in Christine's trial

in which her client was acquitted of all charges

This is another article after the conclusion of the preliminary hearing in Christine's trial

in which her client was acquitted of all charges

This is an article about Christine's manslaughter trial in which her client was acquitted of all charges

This is an article about a manslaughter trial that Christine won, her client was acquitted of all charges

Now the attempted homicide trials

Morris

This is an attempted murder trial that Christine won

This was a gang attempted murder case

had the trial been lost he would have gotten a life sentence

He was only convicted of an assault

These are ARTICLEs FROM THE PRELIMINARY HEARING

cobb

This article features an attempted murder trial that Addison won, his client was acquitted of all charges

"Albert L. Cobb, 66, of Riverside, was acquitted in March on all counts, including attempted murder. Prosecutors said he tried to suffocate his mother, who was in her 80s.

. . .

The incident stemmed from a confrontation in an assisted living home, said Steele, who represented Cobb. Jurors heard medical testimony that the mother's bruises were age-related, that she had cognitive impairment, and that she could be combative with her own son.

. . .

Cobb was one of five of Steele's clients who have been acquitted on all charges in Riverside County since 2003."



The Rape trials

There have been several rape and child molestation trials that Christine and Addison have won

However it appears that acquitted cases don't get the same coverage as the convicted cases

Castro

This is an article about a rape trial that Addison won

   "A Rialto man imprisoned for a 2002 kidnapping was found not guilty of raping a woman in 2001.

   DNA evidence matched Dennis M. Castro to the rape case, but jurors said what happened didn't meet the legal requirements for a rape conviction.

   Castro's father and sister cried and hugged after the verdict was read Monday afternoon in the Riverside Hall of Justice.

  Castro faced 80 years to life in prison on top of the 13 years and eight months he is serving for the kidnapping, said Deputy Public Defender Addison Steele."

Other Trials that either Christine or Addison won that were covered by the pres

Robertson

Bastian

This is an earlier article about the case

Kaleimamahu


This article is about a judge showing up for jury duty

However Addison actually won this trial

HE beat the felony charges and his client was only convicted of a lesser misdemeanor

UCSB Search Warrant

This is an article about Addison Successfully defending Political Expression with a motion to quash a search warrant

This is another article about Addison successfully defending political expression with a motion to quash a search warrant

This is another article about Addison getting the search Warrant Quashed

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an0ther article where Addison was defending against a search warrant to get information about protesters at UCSB

this is another article about Addison's victory for freedom of speech

This is another article about Addison's fight to protect free speech

This is another article about Addison's battle to quash an expansive warrant

This is an article about the initial hearing to quash the Search warrant

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about Addison defending against a search warrant against campus protesters

This is the internet version of this article

This is an article done by the campus radio station

This is an article from the day of the hearing

This is another article from the day of the hearing

This article is from before the hearing was held

Bio-Tox Laboratory

These articles are from when Christine took the lead for the public Defenders office when there was a laboratory scandal

This is an article about the laboratory scandal

This is an Associated Press article about the laboratory scandal

THIS IS ANother ARTICLE ABOUT THE LABORATORY SCANDAL

This is another article about the laboratory scandal

This is another article about the laboratory scandal

This is another article about the Laboratory

tHIS IS ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT THE LABORATORY

THIS IS ONE OF THE EARLIER ARTICLES ABOUT THE ISSUE

Corizon

This is an article where Christine was asked for commentary

This is the internet version of the above article

 County budget expertise

This is Addison being interviewed for his commentary regarding county funding of the jail

Riverside Dismissals

This is an article where Addison was asked for commentary

   "'It's like [District Attorney Rod Pacheco] [feels] the taxpayers don't care . . . If he takes cases to trial that aren't winning,' said Addison Steele, a Riverside County deputy public defender. Of [Steele's] last 11 trials in which the defendant faced life in prison, including rape, murder and attempted murder, Pacheco's office secured the maximum penalty in only two of them, Steele said."

Riverside Trial Victories

This is another article where Addison was asked for Commentary

Macias

Another article where the reporter asked for Addison's expert opinion

This is the internet version of the above article

Prison realignment

This is an article where Christine was asked for Commentary rEGARDING CHANGES IN THE LAW

tHIS IS ANOTHER ARTICLE WHERE cHRISTINE WAS ASKED FOR COMMENTARY REGARDING CHANGES IN THE LAW

Zellerbach

This is another article where Addison was asked for his commentary

Brown

Christine was asked for commentary for an article about a Judge

Hernandez

This is an article from one of Addison's cases with an extremely favorable outcome

Madrigal

This is a case that CHristine had where she beat the beat the involuntary manslaughter chargE

The decedent's family wanted the district attorney to seek the death penalty in a case where there was clearly no intent to kill and there wasn't enough evidence to even support an involuntary manslaughter charge

Taylor

This case started as an attempted murder case

Christine fought and fought until the attempted murder charge was dismissed

Then the district attorney refiled the attempted murder

Christine fought and fought some more

Then in the middle of the trial the case settled for seven years instead of the life in prison sentence the D.A. Wanted

This is another article about the case

this is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is the article from when Christine beat the Attempted murder charge

This is another article about the case

Weinhart

These are Articles from the "Tiger Abuse" case, as the press called it, IN fact Addison's client wasn't even charged with "Tiger Abuse,"

He was charged with technical bookkeeping violations, because of the extensive records that must be kept for exotic animals,

And tiger neglect at the tiger rescue that he ran, there wasn't ever Even an accusation that he abused a tiger

The district attorney wanted a long prison sentence

Addison fought and fought

He battled an onslaught of negative and incorrect press

in the end the district attorney did not get the sixteen years prison they wanted

John and Addison beat some of the charges and he was sentenced to two years in the county jail

The case kept getting press long after it was over

This is an article about Addison's client's co-defendant getting sentenced

This is another article about Tippi Hedren and Addison's Client

In all of his years keeping exotic animals Addison's client never had anyone get hurt

Ms. Hedren's daughter, Melanie Griffith, Was mauled by one her tigers and had to have reconstructive surgery

This is another article about the case

in fact several of the counts were won, but the press didn't cover it that way

The case was covered across the country and even internationally

This is another article about the verdicts

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New Paragraph

This is another article about the verdicts

This is another article about the verdicts

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the trial

This particular story is about Addison's cross examination of actress Tippi Hedren, she is known for staring in Alfred Hitchcock's Movies "The Birds" and "Marnie," As well as being actress Melanie Griffith's mother and actress Dakota Johnson's grandmother

   "Under questioning by Addison Steele, Weinhart's attorney, Hedren said that she knew that at one point Weinhart had performed in a circus act with some of his animals--something she disapproved of.

  'And you're not going to say anything nice about someone like that?' Steele asked.

  'Probably not,' Hedren replied.

  Hedren also acknowledged that she already harbored a bias against Weinhart before testifying on Tuesday."

This is another Article about the Trial

This is another article about the trial

This is an article from when Addison's client testified in the "Tiger Abuse Trial"

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the trial

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This one of the occasions when there was somewhat fair press coverage

These are more articles about Addison's client's co-Defendant pleading Guilty

This is the Associated press article from when the co-defendant plead to all the charges to avoid going to trial

These are articles about the co-defendant pleading guilty, which left Addison and his client to fight the case alone

New Paragraph

This is another article about the case

This is an internet article from the district attorney's part of the case

This is another Article about the case

This is some of the press that the "Tiger Abuse" case got before it went to trial

This is another Article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is some more press from when the case first started

These are articles from when the case first started

Miller

Staying with slightly odd animal cases, this is an assault trial Christine did when she was in her twenties

It was an assault with a deadly weapon case, with the weapon being a dog

The District Attorney wanted to send Christine's client to prison for ordering his rottweiler to attack someone

Christine fought the case, in the end the client got probation without any jail time

This is another Article about the case

The press followed the case closely

The defense in the case was that the Dog was not well trained and that he bit someone to protect Christine's client's girlfriend

Christine got an order from the judge so she could bring the dog to court for the jury to see

and that Animal control could not seize the Dog while he was in court

The Bailiff tried to pet the dog and because the dog was not well trained, he bit the Bailiff

The Bailiff then became a witness in case because the Dog was obviously not ordered to bite the bailiff

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

Gault

This is an article about a case that Addison defended that was particularly significant,

Most people are familiar with the landmark United States supreme Court Case  Gideon v.  Wainright (1963) 372 U.S. 335

Gideon established that the right to an attorney meant a right to an appointed attorney if the person cannot afford to hire an attorney,

There is a juvenile equivalent of  Gideon with which all practitioners of juvenile defense are familiar, 

That landmark United States Supreme Court case is In re Gault (1967) 387 U.S. 1

As an old man he was accused of child molestation, Addison was his lawyer

He was facing spending the rest of his life in prison

Addison got him released from jail with probation

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about Addison getting his client out of jail with probation instead of a life in prison sentence

Hines

This is Christine doing a pimping trial when she was in her twenties

She started doing serious cases when she was a young lawyer

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This article is from the beginning of the trial

This is an article from when the case went to preliminary hearing

Griffin

This is a recreational vehicle pursuit case that Christine had

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Nelson

Moreno

This is another client of Addison's that was facing a life in prison sentence

Defense attorneys consider a "single digits" outcome in a life sentence exposure case to be an outstanding outcome

Addison saved his client from spending the rest of his life in prison

This is the internet version of the above article

This is the article were Addison was able to get his client eight years instead of life in prison

This is another article from the case

This is an earlier article from the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article from the beginning of the case

Payan

This is an internet article from one of Addison's domestic violence trials

This is another internet article from Addison's domestic violence Trial above

Montgomery

This is an Internet article where Christine was defending a client with a strike prior

Mollo

This is an article about aN attempted blowing up of a house case that Christine did

Passaro

This is an article about an embezzlement case Christine handled

This is an article from earlier in the Case

Pitcher

This is an article from when Christine did the first human trafficking trial in Santa Barbara County

The client was convicted, but Christine is still fighting through the Racial Justice Act

This is another article about the case

This is one of the earlier articles for this case

This is another one of the earlier articles about the case

This is another article from when Christine did the first human trafficking trial in Santa Barbara County

Kitt

This is an internet article on a rape case that Christine defended

This is another article from this case

This is an earlier article from the above case

Dominguez

This is a possession of bombs case that Christine had when she was a young lawyer

Xitumul

This is an article from a molestation case that Christine defended

Ramirez Ventura

This is an article from a rape trial that Christine did

Santa Barbara News-Press

August 8, 2013

This is another article from a rape trial that Christine did

This is another about the case

Byers

These are articles from a rape trial that Addison did

This is an article from the beginning of the trial

Sarwary

This is a Rape Trial that Christine did

Nicolas

This is an article from a rape and Murder for hire trial that Addison did

This is another article about the case

This is the internet version of the above article

The Trial was followed closely by the press

This is the internet version of the above article

This is Another Article is from a rape and murder for hire trial that Addison did

This is the internet version of the above article

This is Another article about the case

This is the internet version of the above case

This is another earlier article about the case

This is another earlier article about the case

Blackmon

This is an article about a particularly disturbing case

Addison's client was accused of child molestation by his step-Daughter

She had the courage at the preliminary hearing to admit that she made up the charges to get attention

The judge and district attorney didn't believe her and pressed forward with the case

Eventually the client pled to the charge to get out of jail because his family needed his income to survive

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the client pleading to the charge to get out of jail

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another internet article

This is an article about Addison's client resolving his case so he could get out of jail

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about Addison's client resolving his case so he could get out of jail

The press followed every court appearance in this case

This is the internet version of the above article

The press followed every court date in this case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another internet article about the case

This is another internet article about Addison's client

The press followed every court date in this case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the preliminary hearing

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an internet article about the preliminary hearing in this case,

this is when the client's step-daughter admitted that she had made a false allegation

This is an article from when the case first started

This is the internet version of the above article

This is a television news article about the case

Maguire

This is an article about how Christine's case, where her client maimed two people in a DUI accident, was resolved

Christine had to go straight to the judge to Get the client the best possible outcome

This is an internet article on a case that Christine defended where her client maimed two people in a drunk driving accident

This is an earlier article for the above case

Narine

This is another Capital murder case that Addison handled

Manzo

Acosta

This is a murder trial that Addison did where his client was acquitted of first degree murder

Because Jaime was only convicted of second degree murder he has paroled from prison and is home now

Renteria

This is a Murder trial that Addison did

This is another Article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

Martinez

This is an article from a murder case That Addison had,

the public defender brought him on because of his expertise in handling capital cases

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case that the public defender brought Addison in on because of his success in capital murder cases

This is the internet version of the above article

Urbina serrano

This is a homicide case that Addison briefly had

His client was one of the many people charged in the case

It was called either "The Ms-13 case," or "The Operation Matador Case" by the press

Even though Addison was only briefly on the case, the press kept using a file photo of his client and him,

So Addison kept appearing in the paper and internet for years after he was off of the case

this is the internet version of the above article

This is an article where the internet version used the same file photo

This is that internet version

This is article from when Addison was still on the case

This is the internet version of the above article

White

This is an article from a murder case that Addison Had

This is Another Article from that Same Murder case

This is another article from that same murder case

The press followed the Case closely

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is article from the beginning of the case

Addison's colleague stood in for him because at the time of the appearance Addison was engaged in the "U-Haul murder trial"

This is the internet version of the above article

CRuz

This is an article from a murder case that Addison had

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about the preliminary hearing

This is the internet Version of the above Article

This is another article from a murder case that Addison had

Mora

This is another murder case that Addison had

This is the internet version of the above case

This is an article about Addison fighting against the D.A. trying to get a court order to shave his client's head

This is the internet version of the above article

Oliver

This is an article from a murder case that Addison Had,

after Addison no longer had the case, the assigned public defender unfortunately and inexplicably

Had the client plea to twenty-four years to life in prison sentence

This is an article from shortly before Addison was moved to the Santa Barbara Office and the case was reassigned

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

This is an article about The client's arraignment

This is another article about the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

Matthews

This is an article about Addison's Client's arraignment on the information

Addison had to be replaced on this case because the Public Defender had brought him in for a potential capital Murder case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about Addison's client's arraignment after his preliminary hearing

Matthews

This is the internet version of the Above article

This is another article about the Lompoc murder case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article from the beginning of the case

Delgado

This is an article from another murder case that Addison had

This is the internet version of the above article

Agustine

These are articles from another murder case that Addison had

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about the preliminary hearing

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article About the preliminary hearing

This is an article about the initial litigation in the case

This is an article about the defense motion regarding discovery going to the Court of Appeals

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the early litigation in this case

This is the internet version of the above article

This article is from when the case was first starting

This is the internet version of the above article

This article is from the very beginning of the case

This is the internet version of the above article

Herrera

This is another murder case that Addison had

This is the internet version of the Above Article

Torres

This is another murder case that Addison had

This is the internet version of the above article

Godinez

This is another murder that Addison had, this case was actually a win because in the middle of trial,

when client was facing a life sentence for murder and a separate attempt murder,

After Addison's opening statement the Deputy District Attorney handling the case approached with an offer to settle the case,

The client ended up with a determinate term for Manslaughter, which means that instead of a life in prison sentence,

He has a date that he knows he'll get out of prison

This is an article from when Addison was trying to get the case out to trial,

but it had been delayed many times before he got the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article from shortly after Addison Got the case

Vaughn

This is another case that Addison took to trial but that resolved in the middle of the trial

This an earlier article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

This is another article about the case

Collins

This is Addison's very first press case

Chavez

THIs is a serious shooting case that Christine had when she was a young attorney

Henson

This is an article from a case that Addison had

Enriquez

This is another very serious case that Addison had

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is the article from a grand jury handed down an indictment in the case

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about the litigation to let Addison's client have access to the evidence against him

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an article about a case where Addison got his client a drug treatment instead of jail

Highley

This is an article from when Addison Appeared for a colleague

This is the internet version of the above article

This is an another article from when Addison stood in for his colleague

Perlingos

This is a somewhat strange article in that it covers a completely ordinary event in court

Bailey

This is an article about Addison doing everything he could to get the client's case moving despite its complexity

This is the internet version of the above article

This is another article about the case

This is an article about Addison setting A case for Preliminary hearing despite being engaged in the "U-Haul Murder Trial"

This is an article about Addison Being assigned the new case

This is the internet version of the above article

Black lives matter

This is a Cover Piece the Santa Barbara independent did on the Black Lives Matter demonstrations

It features a photo of Addison speaking at a demonstration

This is the internet version of the above article, but it discusses Addison's part in the demonstration

This is another internet article that includes Addison Speaking at a Black Lives Matter protest

Lompoc riverbed

This article include commentary from Christine's regarding the homeless that she helped

This is a Santa Barbara Independent Article that featured Christine's work to help the homeless

This is a still from a Santa Barbara Independent video that features Christine and the work she was doing to help the homeless

There's a link below the still to see the video

Mock trial

Both Christine and Addison coach high School mock trial teams at Dos Pueblos High school

Christine's Mock Trial team won the county competition for the fourth year in a row

Christine's Mock Trial team won an international competition in Philadelphia in the Spring of 2024

Christine's Mock Trial team won the county competition again in 2024

After winning the county competition in 2023, Christine's team came in second at the state competition

These are the students that Christine coached that Won an international Mock Trial competition coaching themselves

The team that Christine Coaches won the 2023 County competition

This is an article about the team that Christine coaches competing in a national competition

The Team that Christine coaches won the county competition in 2022

Addison has had editorials published

Addison has always been willing to defend clients in the press as well as in court

In case there's any chance that it is not clear, this next editorial is a satire

Addison wrote this editorial when he was starting his legal career, it's amazing how little has changed