Ex-LA Sheriff Lee Baca likely headed to prison after Supreme Court declines to review case
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is likely headed to prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-ditch, long-shot request to review his case Monday.
The high court denied Baca's writ of certiorari, filed July 18, which would have reopened his case for review after a panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that his conviction for helping orchestrate a scheme to interfere with an FBI investigation into abuses at the county's jails was fair and legally sound. The justices also denied his requests for another hearing or
