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Criminal

Sep. 7, 2011

Lawyer convicted of helping client break into foreclosed home

A competency hearing in Vista against a lawyer who told foreclosed homeowners to break back into their homes was postponed Friday because the lawyer was in jail in Orange County.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A competency hearing in Vista against a lawyer who told foreclosed homeowners to break back into their homes was postponed Friday because the lawyer was in jail in Orange County.


An Orange County jury late Thursday convicted Michael Theodore Pines, 59, of vandalism, attempted burglary and other crimes for helping a client try to break into the client's former house in Newport Beach. Pines w...

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