(Photo illustration by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Psychiatrist stripped of license over patient misconduct sat on AZ’s Sex Offender Management Board
No one involved can explain why former psychiatrist Peter Morey was appointed to the Arizona Sex Offender Management Board last year, 15 years after his Oregon medical license was suspended for inappropriate behavior toward vulnerable patients.
When it issued an emergency suspension of Morey’s license in 2010, the Oregon Medical Board wrote that Morey’s behavior posed “immediate danger to the public and his patients” after…
Aaron Saucedo at his initial appearance in June 2017 after being arrested for a string of murders. Saucedo is still awaiting trial in the so-called “Seria Street Shooter” case. (Screenshot via Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office)
9 years, 9 murder charges, no trial: Inside the long silence of the Serial Street Shooter case
Aaron Saucedo was arrested in 2017 and charged with nine murders and other crimes for a shooting spree that police and press called the Serial Street Shooter.
If he is ever found guilty of those crimes, he will be among the state’s most prolific serial killers. And he faces nine possible death sentences.
But first, Saucedo has to go to trial. He’s been in jail waiting for nine years…
Justin Heap at an August 2024 rally for Donald Trump in Glendale. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
Heap prevails at Arizona Supreme Court as justices reject Maricopa supervisors’ election duty grab
The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap in the ongoing fight between him and the county board of supervisors over election duties.
In a unanimous order, the state’s highest court vacated a June ruling from the Arizona Court of Appeals, and reinstated injunctions put in place in April that required…
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