It was just around 11 am this morning, August 1, 2022. And the court, which was in court room C-40 in Santa Ana Orange County Superior Court, of the honorable Patrick Donahue, announced the jury had reached a verdict in applicants’ attorney Jon Woods’ trial. This verdict came very fast. The jury went into deliberations... Read More
Jury deliberates in Jon Woods’ second trial in Santa Ana
The jury went into deliberations on Thursday, July 28th 2022 in the late morning of applicants’ attorney Jon Woods’ trial in Santa Ana, Orange County Superior Court. The jury will reconvene to further deliberate on Monday, August 1st at 9:30 am. This is the second trial for Jon Woods. His first trial resulted in a... Read More
Jury in Trial of Applicants’ Attorney Jon Woods Now in Deliberations
The jury is now in deliberation in the trial of applicants’ attorney, Jon Woods. They are now to resume their deliberations on Monday, August 1st 2022 at 9:30 am. They began at almost mid-day on Thursday, July 28th. This is the second trial for Woods. The first one ended in a mistrial on April 17th... Read More
Defense counsel, Richard Wynn, gives closing argument in applicants’ attorney Jon Woods’ trial in Orange County.
Richard Wynn was wearing his vibrant, electric lime green shirt, the same one he wore three years and three months ago during the first trial. The one that ended in a mistrial. He stepped up to the podium. He looked up, facing the jury, and told them they didn’t need to rely on circumstantial evidence. ... Read More
Prosecution gives closing argument in applicant’s attorney Jon Woods’ second trial.
Deputy district attorney Noorul Hasan stepped up to the podium the bailiff put in place for her on Tuesday afternoon. It was the beginning of her closing argument. It was July 26, 2022. This was the second trial of applicants’ attorney Jon Woods in the Santa Ana Orange County Superior Court. It was in court... Read More
The verdict came in. Not Guilty! Finally, after almost 11 years of prosecution, Sim Hoffman, M.D., appeared emotional and glassy eyed.
After the closing arguments from the prosecution, and then the defense, and then the prosecution even again in a rebuttal argument, Judge Richard King gave some final words to the court room. The jury then filed out of the court room, in the same manner as they had many times. They went into the jury... Read More
The 1118.1 motion ruling in the Sim Hoffman, M.D. trial. More precipitous cascading flowed down the abyss to one remaining count
Judge Richard King now took to his vast wooden bench in the wood-laden court room of C-45 interlaid with its deep, blue-flecked and comfortable audience seats in the Santa Ana Superior Court. Considering all the evidence, he now read his written ruling. The Sleep Lab For the claims from the sleep labs for the polysomnographies... Read More
The Sim Hoffman, M.D. four-month trial cascaded counts down the abyss to the bitter end
The indictment against Sim Hoffman, M.D. by the Orange County District Attorney came down on May 11, 2011. It was for 884 counts of workers’ compensation insurance billing fraud, a massive quantity. This many counts are pretty much unheard of in a criminal charging document. It all came to an end on March 2nd 2022... Read More
