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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Stacy Perman

Jury finds film Academy member guilty of child molestation

LOS ANGELES — A nine-person jury on Friday found Hollywood architect and film Academy member Jeffrey Cooper guilty of 3 counts of child molestation.

The 2-week criminal trial began May 9 at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys, four years after Cooper was arrested and a grand jury indicted him on eight counts involving two victims. Cooper, a resident of Calabasas, pleaded not guilty.

The jury convicted him on three felony charges of a “lewd act upon a child.”

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