watchpaul: A little more of Jeffrey "yougofree.com" Schwartz's history...

Sunday, March 04, 2007

A little more of Jeffrey "yougofree.com" Schwartz's history...

Re-trial granted for Napoleon Brown murder conviction
March 11, 2006
http://www.fogcityjournal.com

" ...After his conviction, Brown's lead attorney, Jeffrey Schwartz, went to work for the Humboldt County district attorney's office...

On Feb. 27, Judge Jerome Benson granted their motion to re-try the murder case on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel...

Wise and Zilversmit argued in court that Schwartz had not used every option in his arguments in Brown's defense.

They said Schwartz had failed to fully argue that the chain of causation had been broken in Brown's connection to White's death..."

background:
Man Found Guilty of Murder, Four Counts of Robbery, Carjacking
Man convicted of getaway-car murder
Three Strikes - Court did not reject three-strikes law
New Deputy DA Schwartz excited about working for Gallegos
"...former Deputy District Attorney Tim Stoen introduced the two..." (Gallegos and Schwartz)
Web address not wrong, just changed

8 comments:

Anonymous3/05/2007 3:51 PM
No wonder he has lost the only 2 cases he tried in humboldt and plea bargains the rest. Seems like Paul likes folks that are about as competent to practice as himself (aka incompetent)

And the fact that he is the highest paid in the office next to Paulina is comforting also.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous3/05/2007 4:33 PM
Its pretty certain Paul's new hires won't be rocking the boat-hence the appearance of a tight ship...
Where oh where is a real attorney from outside going to come from to run against this bunch in the next election which should be a piece of cake BTW.

Ooh! Ooh! If I study real real hard maybe I can run for DA in '08!
ReplyDelete
Replies
Rose3/05/2007 5:19 PM
LOL, well, we have been informed that you do not have to go to school to be a lawyer. Do you have to be a lawyer to be a DA?
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous3/06/2007 8:24 AM
No Rose, as far as Paul is concerned all you have to be is incompetent or a forger.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous3/06/2007 2:22 PM
This should really come as no surprise. His sad sack work ethic and level of incompetence are a running joke on the second floor, as has been regularly noted in the blogs. If he were a passionate and competent defense lawyer, someone dedicated to professional excellence, he would have brought those traits to the DA's office. Of course, it wouldn't have been this DA's office.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous3/08/2007 6:19 PM
I believe you have to be an attorney to be a DA, at least in the Golden State. That's not saying much, just look at some of the other local attorneys ! There are a few peaches but there are more basic losers.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous3/10/2007 8:13 AM
Hey, is it true one of the Whitethorn rapists has been arrested for another rape? Who's going to prosecute this one? And who's going to apologize to the girl and her parents for the fact that the goon was on the loose? Guess that last victim wasn't so off base after all, yougo baby.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous3/12/2007 12:53 PM
oh yeah - it was the rape of a 15 year old, but who's gonna bet that yougofree will find someway not to charge it so he will not have to eat the bad press?
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Comments are closed for the time-being.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

NOTE:

"Helping Crush Progressivism" - ie: exposing the predatory litigious orgs and those who seek power for power's sake.... The original purpose of watchpaul is to post important documents relating to Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos and his handlers who seek to gain power through the acquisition of political offices. This includes, but is not limited to, the manipulations of "Humboldt Watershed Council," "EPIC," "Baykeeper," and other activist groups - the unregulated orgs. It also includes the master manipulators, such as Richard Salzman and Ken Miller.

Links to key stories and documents are also included in the sidebar, so that you do not have to try to scroll back through what has become a lengthy series of posts. I encourage you to use the Search and Labels features as well.

Pages

Sunday, March 04, 2007

A little more of Jeffrey "yougofree.com" Schwartz's history...

8 comments: