The son of a former assistant Orange County sheriff and two other men who sought to have their sexual assault convictions and requirements to register as sex offenders overturned have lost their appeal.
“Understandable disappointment” is how attorney Dennis Fischer said he felt on learning that he and his fellow attorneys lost before the 4th District Court of Appeal in the case involving Gregory Haidl and two of his friends. He said they would have to weigh their next legal step.
In a 56-page opinion written by Associate Justice Richard Aronson, Presiding Justice David G. Sills and Associate Justice Raymond Ikola, the 2005 conviction of Haidl (the son of former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl), Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann was upheld.
The panel also rejected the trio’s request that they do not have to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
The three, as teenagers, were convicted in the videotaped sexual assault of an apparently unconscious 16-year-old girl at the elder Haidl’s Newport Beach home.
The Daily Pilot has full details on the ruling.
— Joseph Serna in Orange County