Defense attorney Danny Davis, who represented Raymond "Ray" Buckey during the McMartin Preschool trials, describes meeting the former teacher. Davis described the investigation as a "witch hunt," and said his relationship with Buckey was one of his "most rewarding." "I fathered my son years before he was born,” said Davis.
Defense attorney Danny Davis, who represented Raymond "Ray" Buckey during the McMartin Preschool trials. In the end, Buckey was not convicted in connection with any of the charges. Season 1
· The 118-page motion, filed jointly by defense attorneys Willing, Dean R. Gits and Daniel G. Davis, relies heavily on information provided to them by former Deputy Dist. Atty. Glenn Stevens, one of ...
Season 1 Episode 100 Digital Original: Defense attorney Danny Davis, who represented Raymond "Ray" Buckey during the McMartin Preschool trials, describes meeting the former teacher. Davis …
G.'s office and to defense attorneys copies of a taped interview with McMartin prosecutor Glenn Stevens.
The McMartin trial had its origins in a call placed to police in Manhattan Beach, California by Judy Johnson, the mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old son who attended the McMartin Preschool on about ten occasions in 1983. Johnson told Detective Jane Hoag that a school aide, Ray Buckey, the 25-year-old son of the owner of the preschool, ...
Chief Prosecutor Lael Rubin, however, argued that all seven deserved prosecution. After a December 1985 meeting involving over a dozen members of the District Attorney's Office, the decision was made to drop charges against all defendants except Ray and Peggy Buckey. So far the case had cost Los Angeles County four million dollars--and the trial had yet to begin.
Kee MacFarlane testified at the preliminary hearing that the abuse was able to go on for years because children either suffered from "denial syndrome" or were afraid that revealing McMartin's dark secrets would result in their own deaths, or the deaths of family members.
By the time the preliminary hearing began in August 1984, Prosecutor Lael Rubin was telling the media that the seven defendants committed 397 sexual crimes (far more than the number for which they were indicted) and that thirty additional individuals associated with the McMartin Preschool were under investigation.
The grand jury initially indicted the "McMartin Seven" on 115 counts of child sexual abuse. Two months later, and additional 93 indictment counts were added, as District Attorney Robert Philobosian pursued his strategy of hyping the McMartin case to boost his chances in an upcoming primary election.
After the interviews, MacFarlane told parents that their children had been abused, and described the nature of the alleged abuse. By March 1984, 384 former McMartin students had been diagnosed as sexually abused. In addition to interviews, 150 children received medical examinations. Dr.