Indictment Charges Former Attorney With Perjury Counts

A former Woodland Hills attorney has been charged with perjury and related offenses in an eight-count grand jury indictment stemming from his role in defending a man accused of two Antelope Valley slayings, Los Angeles County prosecutors said Thursday.

Leonard R. Milstein, 47, of Pismo Beach was arrested Wednesday at his San Luis Obispo office and released later that day on $100,000 bail, authorities said.

The indictment charges that Milstein got at least one witness to lie during the trial and solicited others, prosecutors said. Milstein represented Brad Millward of Palmdale, who was sentenced to eight years in state prison in July, 1990, after agreeing to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in one death. In October, 1989, a jury had deadlocked on a charge of murder in that death and acquitted Millward of another. Millward, facing a retrial, entered a plea in the July 5, 1987, shooting death of Bruce Gruber, 28, of Yucca Valley. He had been acquitted of killing Albert Dulyea, 37, of Norwalk. Both involved a drug disputes.

Under the May 23 indictment by a Los Angeles County grand jury, Milstein was charged with eight felony counts: two of perjury and single counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice, subornation of perjury, bribery of a witness, solicitation of a crime, and preparing and offering false legal documents.