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April 4, 2013 | By Ruben Vives and Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times
A man accused of drunk driving in a crash that killed five members of a Los Angeles family had weeks earlier fled from an Orange County juvenile detention facility. The Orange County Probation Department requested an arrest warrant for Jean Ervin Soriano, 18, after it discovered that he had left the Youth Guidance Center in Santa Ana on March 1. But authorities didn't find him until Saturday morning on a Nevada highway after he allegedly rear-ended a van filled with family members returning from a trip to see a dying relative.
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February 4, 1997 | JENNIFER LEUER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The six student jurors fired questions at a teen caught with marijuana during Irvine High School's first Peer Court. Did you have intentions of smoking the marijuana? What's your curfew like? Have you learned anything from all this? After the final question, the panel filed out of the room to deliberate a punishment. The decision: 20 hours of community service, stay away from drug dealers and users and serve as a Peer Court juror.
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November 26, 1996 | LISA RICHARDSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The scene is Central California Norman Rockwell: Two rows of elms, turned gold by the fall's chill, line a street of neat houses and lawns. The elementary school down the street has just let out for the day, and children call to each other while slinging on their backpacks and juggling books.
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November 2, 1996 | LORI HAYCOX
James Odriozola, 49, was appointed an Orange County Superior Court commissioner by a panel of judges this week. Odriozola has served since 1991 as a referee at Orange County Juvenile Court, where he has presided over more than 250 trials. He also has served as a faculty member at Orange County Bar Assn. College of Trial Advocacy and a guest lecturer at Western State University College of Law.
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September 6, 1995 | GEOFF BOUCHER and LEE ROMNEY
An Orange County Juvenile Court judge on Tuesday postponed the extradition proceedings for a 14-year-old Tustin boy charged with a Nevada murder-robbery, authorities said. Peter Quinn Elvik will return to court next Tuesday to begin proceedings that may return him to Carson City, Nev., where authorities have charged him in the shotgun slaying of a 63-year-old retiree, police said.
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June 1, 1995 | LESLIE BERKMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Jose admitted he was smoking a marijuana cigarette when he was arrested. But the six jurors weighing his sentence didn't like the youth's offhand demeanor in court and the way he belittled his offense. Noting that the 17-year-old had a history of marijuana and alcohol use, the jury threw the book at Jose, giving him 35 hours of community service, grounding him at home every other weekend and ordering him to attend school, get a job and stay away from drugs, drug pushers and gang members.