Prosecutors

A prosecutor urged jurors Monday to find a man who pretended to be a member of the Rockefeller family guilty of murder, saying he was a "master manipulator" who buried the victim's body in a San Marino backyard nearly three decades ago. Deputy Dist. Atty. Habib Balian told the jury in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom that strong circumstantial evidence pointed to Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter's guilt, noting that the German native was staying in a guest house on the property where John and Linda Sohus were living when the couple disappeared in 1985.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday confirmed Mary Jo White to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, placing a tough former prosecutor in the role as Wall Street's top watchdog. White was confirmed by a unanimous voice vote in the Senate, an indication of broad bipartisan support. The Senate Banking Committee voted 22-1 to approve her nomination last month, with the only no vote coming from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). Brown has been critical of federal officials in general for not being tougher on Wall Street.

Singer Chris Brown was ordered to return to court this summer after attorneys asked a judge Friday for more time to review new evidence related to allegations he failed to complete court-ordered community service. Brown appeared in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday wearing an untucked white button-down shirt and tan pants. When his attorney emerged from a meeting with the prosecutor and judge and whispered in Brown's ear, the R&B star sighed and nodded. He was ordered back in court June 10. Brown is on five years' probation after pleading guilty to a felony count of assault in connection with a 2009 attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna . As part of his probation, he was required to perform 180 days of community labor in Virginia.

HOUSTON -- As hundreds attended the funeral and burial Friday of a North Texas prosecutor found gunned down with his wife last Saturday at their home near Forney, about 20 miles east of Dallas, officials said they had arrested a local man for threatening a prosecutor. Robert Allan Miller, 52, of Terrell, was charged with making a terroristic threat and held at the Kaufman County jail on $1 million bond, Kaufman County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Justin Lewis told The Times. WFAA reports that in the Facebook post allegedly written by Miller, he said that he "expect[s]

Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been arrested and charged with lying about a drug bust.  Authorities say they discovered a videotape that contradicted the deputies' account of the arrest. Two deputies were charged with filing a false police report and conspiracy to commit a crime. RELATED: Scandal at L.A. Sheriff's Department Sheriff's deputies Robert G. Lindsey, 31, and Charles G. Rodriguez, 38, were charged Wednesday and surrendered to Sheriff's Internal Criminal Affairs Bureau investigators Thursday in connection with the charges related to a June 3, 2011, drug arrest they made.

Chris Brown is due in a downtown courtroom Friday afternoon for the first time since February when prosecutors accused him of failing to complete court-ordered community service. Prosecutors had argued that proof of the R&B singer's service for a 2009 assault conviction was fraudulent. Superior Court Judge James Brandlin has yet to rule on whether Brown must serve additional community service time in Los Angeles County. If the singer does not fulfill his obligation to the court, he could be sent to jail.

SUNNYVALE, Texas - Police helicopters hovered overhead, officers mingled with the crowd and snipers positioned themselves on the roof of the church where mourners gathered Thursday to honor a local district attorney who was gunned down with his wife last Saturday. More than 2,000 people filled Sunnyvale First Baptist Church for the memorial honoring Kaufman County Dist. Atty. Mike McLelland, 63, and his wife, Cynthia, 65. No one has been arrested in connection with the slayings.

KAUFMAN, Texas -- The state's governor denounced what he called "attacks on the rule of law," and vowed justice. Kaufman County's new district attorney mourned her fatherlike predecessor, fatally shot along with his wife in their home two months after another colleague was killed. And as other officials gathered to speak to reporters inside the Kaufman County courthouse Thursday -- where Assistant Dist. Atty. Mark Hasse was gunned down by an unknown assailant in the parking lot on Jan. 31 -- authorities begged the public for tips, still without a formal a suspect in either Hasse's or Mike and Cynthia McLelland's slayings.