by Dan BlackburnJoshua Edward Dirnu will appear in Torrance court April 14 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 8 for a second attempt at setting a preliminary hearing date on charges he beat and killed longtime Hermosa Beach resident Jeffery Roderick Woods in a July 8 incident caught on surveillance cameras.Dirnu, 23, has been held without bail in Los Angeles County Jail since his arrest in October in Carlsbad, near his hometown of San Diego. According to officers who took him into custody, Dirnu “a
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