BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Jury won’t be...

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Jury won’t be picked until April

Jury selection for the trial of Gregory Scott Haidl, the son of an

Orange County assistant sheriff who is accused of rape, was postponed

Monday until April 19, officials said.

Haidl, 18, Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann, both 19, are accused

of raping an unconscious 16-year-old girl in Asst. Sheriff Don

Haidl’s Corona del Mar home in July 2002. All three have pleaded not

guilty to 24 felony counts. Their attorneys have said that the sex

was consensual. If convicted, the three men face 55 years in prison.

Attorneys are due back in court on March 16 to discuss defense

motions to exclude a videotape that captured the incident, on the

basis that it was allegedly altered. The jury trial, therefore, will

be postponed until April.

Trial for molestation suspect to get jury

Jury selection for the trial of Roger Alan Giese the former voice

coach of the All American Boys’ Choir accused of child molestation,

was postponed Monday until Tuesday morning, officials said.

Giese, 28, was arrested in September 2002 and charged with six

felony counts of child molestation. He has since left the choir,

headquartered at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. He

pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Hearing delayed for suspect in arson

The pre-trial hearing for Kevin Duane Carpenter, the man accused

of gagging and binding a Newport Beach woman and setting her house on

fire, was postponed Monday until March 12.

Carpenter, a handyman from Lake Forest, had worked on the house in

the 1800 block of Galaxy Drive more than twice. He was living in a

motel on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa at the time of the alleged

attack, police said.

A man identified as Carpenter bound the woman living in the home

and her female assistant and hit them both on the head, police said.

The women told police that the assailant had a handgun.

The suspect then lighted several fires throughout the home,

causing a large portion of it to burn and collapse, officials said.

Both women escaped uninjured from the burning home.

Detectives tracked Carpenter to the motel from a citation he had

dropped in the Back Bay while trying to escape. He was booked on

suspicion of attempted murder and arson.