James M. Heaps was sentenced to 11 years in prison in April 2023. A note from the jury to the judge during deliberations was never disclosed, and an appeals court said the case must be retried.

James Heaps, a former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2023 on sexual abuse charges, has had his conviction overturned.

A California appeals court ordered a retrial after overturning a conviction against former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps, citing concerns about a possible language barrier with one of the jurors who ...

A new trial was ordered in the case of Dr. James Heaps, a former gynecologist at UCLA accused of abusing hundreds of patients.

A former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex abuse-related crimes had his conviction tossed by an appeals court this week, much to the shock of abuse survivors. Dr. James ...

A California appeals court's decision to overturn the sex abuse conviction of former University of California, Los Angeles, gynecologist James Heaps has left his victims devastated and legal experts p ...

Somewhere in Seattle on Tuesday night, New England Revolution defender Jay Heaps was probably keeping tabs on his teammates. It must have been an odd feeling for Heaps, who hasn't missed a MLS game ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The criminal case against a former UCLA campus gynecologist accused of sexually abusing seven female patients was placed in the hands of a jury Wednesday. The panel -- which spent ...

WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- An obstetrician-gynecologist formerly employed by UCLA now faces a total of 20 felony counts charging him with sexually assaulting seven patients between 2011 and 2018, ...