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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

We have a new ambulance chaser!

◼ Attorney: Witnesses afraid to come forward in wrongful death cases
...Brian Claypool of Claypool Law Firm in Los Angeles has filed three federal lawsuits, two of which are wrongful death lawsuits, on behalf of the families of Chris Burgess, Martin Cotton II and Peter Stewart. During a press conference at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Claypool said that witnesses have called him, saying they were “terrified” of stepping forward....

Claypool is currently involved in at least 10 federal civil lawsuits, according to court documents, including civil cases against Crescent City and Del Norte County. He said Tuesday that the lawsuits “level the playing field” between law enforcement and citizens.

Terrified of coming forward? Maybe they are terrified of lying to help you make a buck buddy.

...The cases were reviewed by a multi-agency task force and the District's Attorney's Office issued reports saying no charges would be filed.... EXTENSIVELY reviewed, drug through the muck already, with the officers and police dept. excoriated, the community terrorized by the anti-cop activists...

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Fred Mangels8/05/2009 9:05 AM
I was thinking the same thing. Not that there's anything wrong with filing suits in possible cases of civil rights violations (No, I'm not saying the cases were civil rights violations), but the fact this guy gathered up all of these local ones says a lot about him. Another Jason Singleton type? Not quite, but close.

It will be interesting to see if he pushes for a settlement, ala Singleton.
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mresquan8/05/2009 9:15 AM
If those who killed them did nothing wrong then what are you worried about?
Hoping that he does not turn out to be another Singleton.
This has to be the first time that I can remember anyway that Rose sides with our D.A.
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Henry8/05/2009 9:25 AM
I am not seeing Rose siding with the DA. I am seeing Rose siding with the conclusion of the LE investigation. (Minus Gags' input.) Mark, you are consistent. I hope that niether you nor anyone you know becomes the victim of a serious crime. You will get the education of a lifetime. Keep on championing for Gallegos though. We find it amusing given the facts. Hey, I overheard Belknap the other day saying that her "people" won't even support Gags this time around.
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Anonymous8/05/2009 3:37 PM
This guy Claypool is the worst kind of sleaze. He benefits from the deaths of others. He is a scumbag from Southern California who is/was behind several other large lawsuits down there. He apparently fancies himself another Stephen Yagman, who made millions suing LAPD.
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Tom Sebourn8/05/2009 9:51 PM
Hey, it's the back of my head and my hand in the picture.
I made the Rose blog!
Seriously, if just one of these lawsuits turns out to be valid and wins, things might turn out differently in the future. Procedures may change that could save the life of someone. Even if most of you don't think that someone accused of a crime and not yet tried is scum and doesn't deserve it.
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Rose8/05/2009 10:03 PM
Walk a mile in the cops shoes, Tom. Then comment.
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Anonymous8/07/2009 10:14 PM
Check out this guys status on the California Bar Association website. The dates don't seem to jib.

This is not the first ambulance chaser type shister to make his mark in Humboldt County. They sue for $3 million, settle for $10,000, and call it a win. This kind of settlement was the way government agencies would deal with this, strictly cost savings.

Meaning it is/was cheaper to pay the $10,000 than to hire an attorney or two and fight the case. In the past decade or more government agencies have found that if they fight these BS lawsuits and eventually win they will save money in the long run. Because if the shister doesn't win or take some kind of settlement he eats the costs.

A lowlife in need of work. Hey the recession hit's shister lawers too.
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Eric V. Kirk8/09/2009 3:37 PM
Actually, government agencies don't make nuisance settlements. The only police misconduct case I ever filed I had to take all the way to trial. We would have settled for 6 thousand, but the attorney for the CHP told us that they had never lost a case in Humboldt County and offered zero. He was pretty shell-shocked by the jury verdict.
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Anonymous8/09/2009 4:00 PM
"Actually, government agencies don't make nuisance settlements"

And this "fact" is based on your one police misconduct case? Wow is that your arrogance or ignorance Eric ?

Unbelievable
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Anonymous8/10/2009 9:44 AM
Nope - this is typical Eric.
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Anonymous8/18/2009 11:22 AM
Childish name-calling ("Gags") makes me want to gag. If you anti-Gallegos people want to get him out of office, acting like obnoxious, name-calling children is not the way to do it.
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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.)

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We have a new ambulance chaser!

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