Susan M Speer

Gov. Pete Wilson on Thursday appointed Susan M. Speer as a judge of the Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District, replacing Judge Mark Mooney, who was elevated to the Superior Court. Speer, 45, of Woodland Hills, has been a deputy in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office since 1981, and a head deputy there since November 1997. She has also worked part time as a resident nurse at the Northridge Medical Center since 1994. She earned a bachelor's degree from Mt.

By day, Susan M. Speer was a tough prosecutor who implored juries to recommend the death penalty for convicted cop killers. By night, she gently cradled sickly newborns as a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Northridge Hospital Medical Center. The link between her two professions was her compassion for crime victims and children. Now Speer, who recently was appointed a Municipal Court judge by Gov. Pete Wilson, is a rookie again, learning to run a courtroom.

The victim of an execution-style murder managed to crawl to his apartment manager's office and name his attacker moments before he died, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Manuel Abreu, 32, told manager Gloria Mendez that "Danny did it," Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan M. Speer said during opening statements in Van Nuys Superior Court. Speer said Mendez knew "Danny" to be Bertulfo Marin Loaiza, whose trial on two counts of first-degree murder began this week. Loaiza, 32, is charged with killing Abreu and Javier Restropo, 26, on Aug. 13, 1987, in Abreu's apartment in the 14400 block of Valerio Street in Van Nuys.

By day, Susan M. Speer was a tough prosecutor who implored juries to recommend the death penalty for convicted cop killers. By night, she gently cradled sickly newborns as a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Northridge Hospital Medical Center. The link between her two professions was her compassion for crime victims and children. Now Speer, who recently was appointed a Municipal Court judge by Gov. Pete Wilson, is a rookie again, learning to run a courtroom.

A Sylmar man was charged Monday with raping a West San Fernando Valley woman, trying to rape a Van Nuys woman and burglarizing a Studio City motel. Clyde Brown, 19, was arraigned Monday in Van Nuys Municipal Court on charges of rape, burglary, robbery and attempted rape, Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan M. Speer said. Brown was already free on bail in two similar crimes. In four of the five incidents in which he is accused, Brown entered the unlocked apartments of women, Speer said.

Gov. Pete Wilson named a Valley resident as a Municipal Court judge on Thursday. After serving as a Los Angeles County prosecutor since 1981, Susan M. Speer, 45, of Woodland Hills will begin her new position next week. She has served as head deputy of the Van Nuys district attorney's office since November. "The governor feels she has the legal expertise and energy to serve on the bench," said Matt Taggart, a spokesman for Wilson.

By day, Susan M. Speer was a tough prosecutor who implored juries to recommend the death penalty for convicted cop killers. By night, she gently cradled sickly newborns as a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Northridge Hospital Medical Center. The link between her two professions was her compassion for crime victims and children. Now Speer, who recently was appointed a Municipal Court judge by Gov. Pete Wilson, is a rookie again, learning to run a courtroom.

By day, Susan M. Speer was a tough prosecutor who implored juries to recommend the death penalty for convicted cop killers. By night, she gently cradled sickly newborns as a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Northridge Hospital Medical Center. The link between her two professions was her compassion for crime victims and children. Now Speer, who recently was appointed a Municipal Court judge by Gov. Pete Wilson, is a rookie again, learning to run a courtroom.

A Los Angeles man was sentenced Friday in San Fernando Superior Court to more than eight years in prison for assault and selling cocaine, a day after his accomplice was convicted of second-degree murder for killing an undercover police officer in Sylmar who tried to arrest him. Thomas Lee Mixon, 23, was sentenced Friday to 8 years, 4 months in state prison.

A Hollywood man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison in connection with the June 9 attempted robbery and shooting of off-duty Los Angeles Police Officer Stacy Lim, who fatally shot the man's friend. Even though Arvin Peter Mani, 20, did not shoot Lim, San Fernando Superior Court Judge John H. Major said he imposed the maximum sentence because Mani planned the robbery. Mani pleaded guilty June 21 to one count of attempted second-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery.

Gov. Pete Wilson on Thursday appointed Susan M. Speer as a judge of the Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District, replacing Judge Mark Mooney, who was elevated to the Superior Court. Speer, 45, of Woodland Hills, has been a deputy in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office since 1981, and a head deputy there since November 1997. She has also worked part time as a resident nurse at the Northridge Medical Center since 1994. She earned a bachelor's degree from Mt.

Gov. Pete Wilson named a Valley resident as a Municipal Court judge on Thursday. After serving as a Los Angeles County prosecutor since 1981, Susan M. Speer, 45, of Woodland Hills will begin her new position next week. She has served as head deputy of the Van Nuys district attorney's office since November. "The governor feels she has the legal expertise and energy to serve on the bench," said Matt Taggart, a spokesman for Wilson.

The victim of an execution-style murder managed to crawl to his apartment manager's office and name his attacker moments before he died, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Manuel Abreu, 32, told manager Gloria Mendez that "Danny did it," Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan M. Speer said during opening statements in Van Nuys Superior Court. Speer said Mendez knew "Danny" to be Bertulfo Marin Loaiza, whose trial on two counts of first-degree murder began this week. Loaiza, 32, is charged with killing Abreu and Javier Restropo, 26, on Aug. 13, 1987, in Abreu's apartment in the 14400 block of Valerio Street in Van Nuys.

A Sylmar man was charged Monday with raping a West San Fernando Valley woman, trying to rape a Van Nuys woman and burglarizing a Studio City motel. Clyde Brown, 19, was arraigned Monday in Van Nuys Municipal Court on charges of rape, burglary, robbery and attempted rape, Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan M. Speer said. Brown was already free on bail in two similar crimes. In four of the five incidents in which he is accused, Brown entered the unlocked apartments of women, Speer said.

An Oregon physician accused of molesting a sleeping 6-year-old Woodland Hills girl while visiting her family pleaded guilty Friday in Van Nuys Superior Court to one count of child molestation. Daniel Lindner, 33, a vascular surgeon in Portland, was staying with the child's family while attending a medical convention when the molestation occurred in October, 1986, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan M. Speer, who prosecuted the case.

A North Hollywood couple was charged Monday with welfare fraud and perjury in a scheme that authorities said may have cost Los Angeles County more than $100,000. Walter Ziko, 28, and his wife, Rosie, 26, were charged with two counts each of welfare fraud and perjury, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan M. Speer. They are to be arraigned today. The couple received at least $86,000 since June, 1980, from two fraudulent claims for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Speer said.