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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. - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. 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. does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here"

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' 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:

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.

Many documents are quite lengthy, and are available as public records act requests. Documents and related articles will be posted on the supplemental watchpaulARCHIVES blog. Intended as a bibliography, where possible, it includes FULL TEXT as well as LINKS and urls, a permanent one-stop resource.

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.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

heraldowordle - summary of 365 days
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18 things to add:

Anonymous said...: Please do one on yourself Rose!!

Will Gags name take up the entire screen?; 12/04/2008 8:49 AM
Anonymous said...: HERALDO!; 12/04/2008 8:58 AM
Anonymous said...: CONSPIRACY!; 12/04/2008 9:07 AM
Anonymous said...: PROGRESSIVE!; 12/04/2008 9:08 AM
Anonymous said...: After reading Humboldt Herald I open up this site and see the enormous Arkley on the HH word picture.

I just about spit coffee on my monitor.

Keep up the good work.; 12/04/2008 9:32 AM
Anonymous said...: ANTI-DEVELOPMENT!; 12/04/2008 9:41 AM
Rose said...: I expect mine would be Gallegos/Salzman/Miller/Local Solutions/Activist/Baykeeper...

This one came from one of the anons, who plugged in the past 365 days worth of Heraldo's posts.

Thanks, anon, btw. It's very funny.; 12/04/2008 9:51 AM
Anonymous said...: CornCobbaraldoing Humboldt county.; 12/04/2008 10:51 AM
Anonymous said...: I see "water" and "district" are both up there due to Heraldo's string of personal hate-filled attacks against Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap's opponent.; 12/04/2008 11:51 AM
Anonymous said...: No personal hate-filled attacks at Heraldo's Humboldt Herald Hippie Love Fest/Progressive Political Grass Roots Command Center. There has been a recent decline in the number of hateful posts at Sohum Parlance. Cool headed progressives are conversation friendly!; 12/04/2008 3:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Yeah, things tend to be "shiny, happy people" when you delete the comments of all your critics.; 12/04/2008 5:18 PM
Anonymous said...: Tends to get a lot more comment traffic, too. Though, there is a lot of back and forth on the subject matter, I don't see much in the way of hate-filled personal attacks.; 12/04/2008 5:46 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm bored with heraldo.; 12/04/2008 5:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Then make an intelligent contribution. You will be challenged. But, there is nothing more satisfying than setting oneself a goal and meeting it. Don't set the goal too high at first. You want to get positive reinforcement from early successes. Gradually set your goals higher and soon you can be a regular contributer at the Humboldt Herald, gaining the respect of your fellow Humboldt Herald contributers and a healthy sense of accomplishment that you get when you meet challenging personal goals.

Good luck!

Dreadful Anonymous; 12/04/2008 6:21 PM
Rose said...: Pffffttt!!!! LOL, dred.; 12/04/2008 6:38 PM
Anonymous said...: My pleasure!

Dred; 12/04/2008 6:55 PM
Anonymous said...: You dip shits over at cobberaldo must have big straws stuck up your asses.It seem all you clones just keep blowing on the other ends there by continuing to inflate your insecure little egos. God,(an idea you don't grasp), forbid someone doesn't come along and yank your straws out. I can see it now, a bunch of inflated fat heads bouncing balloon like off the walls and ceiling as their hot air comes spewing out. WHAT A SITE. rotflmao!; 12/04/2008 8:19 PM
Anonymous said...: More and more the blogosphere is becoming restricted. Sort of like the western prairie after the introduction of barbed wire. It was an effective way to keep the dumb beasties from trampling the crops. It is not the wild west any more.

Feeling hemmed in, 8:19? Or fenced out? Maybe you should get yourself a job at Walmart. They always need good customer service associates.

Dreadful Anonymous; 12/04/2008 8:51 PM

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