NEWS
June 9, 1991 | JERRY HICKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Superior Court Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald was about to resume the bench after a lunch break one day when he was informed that Tommy Thompson's death sentence had been upheld by the state Supreme Court. "There is a God," the judge remarked. Thompson, convicted in 1981 of murdering a Mission Viejo woman, is one of six men Fitzgerald has sentenced to die in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison. No other judge in Orange County has sent more defendants to Death Row.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 19, 1986 | TED APPEL, Times Staff Writer
The INS has begun deportation proceedings against Joeri DeBeer, the Dana Point youth convicted of killing his legal guardian, who had sexually abused him. DeBeer was arrested earlier this month because he had committed a crime of "moral turpitude," said Harold W. Ezell, western regional commissioner for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Because DeBeer was convicted of manslaughter, he is in violation of his non-immigrant student status, Ezell said Saturday.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 19, 1989
Re the recent Massip decision: Does Superior Court Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald feel that the jury had no conscience or, in his comment, "There is a God," does he believe he is it? JUDITH M. TULL Anaheim
NEWS
November 5, 1986
A Brea man was found guilty of murdering an Irvine woman and then raping her, a special circumstance for which he could face the death penalty. Robert L. Sellers, 28, admitted to authorities that he had become obsessed with Savannah Leigh Anderson, 22, who lived at an apartment complex where he was moonlighting as a security guard while serving in the Marine Corps. When she rejected his romantic overtures, Sellers said, he went into a rage and killed her in May, 1979.
NEWS
October 20, 1986
The immigration and Naturalization Service has begun deportation proceedings against Joeri DeBeer, the Dana Point youth convicted of killing his legal guardian who had sexually abused him. DeBeer, 18, who was born in the Netherlands, committed a crime of "moral turpitude," and is in violation of his non-immigrant student status, said Harold W. Ezell, Western regional commissioner for the INS.