watchpaul: WTF? Amicus Curiae? SF?

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

WTF? Amicus Curiae? SF?

And how did this come about?

Sent to every DA in the state? What? He can't "get Palco" by himself so now he wants the rest of the state to sign on? And the City and County of San Francisco signed on? Is Joe Cotchett involved? Is Stoen? Is this so Gallegos won't have to go do the oral arguments himself?

To all enviros, from Paul Gallegos:

We are interested in any DA's offices that want to file an Amicus Brief in our PL lawsuit. The issue is whether an entity can commit fraud in an administrative hearing and received Noer-Pennington Doctrine immunity and CCP 47(b) protection. Naturally, we believe they do not apply and, if they do, not to 17200 cases brought by a DA, AG, or CA. I have attached the San Franciso City Attorney's Amicus and will provide our briefs if any one is interested in viewing it. There is some time urgency. <<00444879.DOC>> <<00445121.DOC>>

Paul V. Gallegos
District Attorney

Office of the District Attorney, Humboldt County
825 Fifth Street
Eureka, CA 95501
(707) 445-7411
Fax: (707) 445-7416

00444879.DOC AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO IN SUPPORT OF APPELLANT a 29 pg. document
00445121 APPLICATION OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR LEAVE TO FILE AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF APPELLANT a 4 pg pdf document

description-of-amicus-curiae

Update from the Appeals Court:
Amicus curiae brief filed by: Attorney: Danny Yeh Chou
10/30/2007 Amicus curiae for appellant: City and County of San Francisco
Response to amicus curiae brief due to be filed by: Attorney: Edgar Bancroft Washburn Attorney: John Alan Behnke 11/20/2007 Defendant and Respondent: Pacific Lumber Co.

Complete timeline.

And, to really understand just how seriously Paul Gallegos took his Appeal - read his last minute plea for help... he's under a bit of a deadline...

14 comments:

Anonymous10/30/2007 1:35 PM
this guy is such a loser it is laughable.
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Anonymous10/30/2007 6:55 PM
that last post was full of insight into our modern lives in america........

where is stoen at these days? mendocino county still?
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ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ10/30/2007 7:16 PM
This is a cry for help. Send Carson Park Ranger!
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Joel Mielke10/30/2007 10:30 PM
Sparticus never lets the facts get between him and the free expression of his goofy opinions.
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Rose10/30/2007 10:37 PM
Ohhh, it's a cry for help, alright. Ya gotta laugh, CPR. Or cry, no?
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Joel Mielke10/30/2007 10:54 PM
I don't know about everyone else but I'm closer to crying. We're stuck with Gallegos for a long time.
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Rose10/30/2007 11:09 PM
Sadly. But, hey - he is the gift that keeps on giving. Can you believe he was still trying to get a grip on the arguments he's being forced to make in that PL Appeal? He doesn't UNDERSTAND the premise. It's clear enough if you read his brief - but to put out that asinine plea for help at the last minute...

Especially when everyone's been giving him the benefit of the doubt - you know, he CAN'T decide on the Cheri Moore case because he is SO busy working on the Palco case. Now to find out he hasn't been doing anything at all...

Pretty big salary for someone who's just taking up office space.
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Joel Mielke10/31/2007 8:36 AM
Perhaps the only thing he works hard at is his belief that he is doing his job.
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Anonymous10/31/2007 12:13 PM
Not quite, cpr, what he works hard at is convincing a majority of the minority who still vote that he is doing his job. And as you note, that majority is so wilfully ignorant that the DA will be the DA as long as he wants to be, since no one else of stature wants the job. Here's a guy who is crying to be beat, who couldn't give more ammunition to an opponent, who will probably run unopposed. Exactly what Humboldt deserves.
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ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ10/31/2007 12:41 PM
CPR, Sparticus [sic]? What happened to the Zorba epithet? At least you could spell it and he was Greek:o)
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Anonymous10/31/2007 12:50 PM
I read that as "Leonidas" with the quote from Dienekes.

molon labe.
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ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ10/31/2007 1:18 PM
12:50, You are quite right. To ΔΙΕΝΕΚΕΣ is attributed the "fighting in the shade" comment by Herodotus. It was ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ who in writing a response to Xerxes surrender offer wrote: "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ"
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Joel Mielke10/31/2007 11:32 PM
Thanks to Mr. Greek-style for his edifying contribution to the post.
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Anonymous11/02/2007 8:02 AM
Butt out, cpr, with your nasty mind. giggle.
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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.

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WTF? Amicus Curiae? SF?

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