watchpaul: Lots of updates: Continuances and Shortages

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Lots of updates: Continuances and Shortages

Chiv follows the cases as they wind their way through the courts... Follow the links here, and bookmark Chiv's site to stay up on the goings-on, 'cause THIS is just the small stuff:

◼ Continuances, continuances, not enough courtrooms and Judges, how will this affect the 10 upcoming homicide trials? - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17
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◼ Silverio Sanchez: 995 motion for Silverio Sanchez results in one count being dismissed, rest denied, case to proceed to jury trial - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17
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◼ Charles Kesselring: Charles Kesselring machete wielding suspect held to answer on all charges - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17
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◼ Gary Lee Ross: Man who admitted to burning 60 year old over cigarettes arraigned today; seemed clueless and lost in court today - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17
◼ Witness turns out to be suspect, Gary Lee Ross replaces Jeremy Kish as dumbest criminal of the year - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17
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◼ James Cunha, Rebecca Hamline: He prosecuted her, she served time in prison; now he is appointed by the Court as her defense attorney - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17

Allan Dollison, who has previously prosecuted both James Cunha and Rebecca Hamline, when he was a Deputy District Attorney, for which they served prison time was appointed by the court as Hamline's attorney this afternoon in Courtroom 1. Mr. Neal Sanders was appointed for Cunha. Mr. Dollison is now a private criminal defense attorney. Mr. Sanders is also a private attorney.

◼ LOCO commenters and frequently booked James Cunha and Rebecca Hamline get arraigned on more charges, behave better in court, well sorta - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 18
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◼ Kayla Brown: Preliminary hearing for Miss Hoopa charged with 4 counts of alleged abuse of a minor victim including abnormal Sexual Interest in Children delayed again - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17

Intervention hearings take place in a closed courtroom. This case ended up being called before 3 p.m. but I was outside waiting to get dates and so was the victim's family. DDA Brie Bennett who is prosecuting the case spoke privately with the victim's family. Ben McLaughlin is representing Brown along with Rebecca Linkous but Mr. David Celli appeared on behalf of Mr. McLaughlin today.

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◼ Jeremy Kish: Former Alliance Market arson suspect to be transported after a commitment order, and more updates to come - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17

PREVIOUS COVERAGE:
◼ Kish pulls his usual stunts in court but Judge Miles goes that extra step to make sure that Kish rights of due process are met - August 13
◼ Male victim in Kish's alleged sodomy and forcible copulation case talks about the alleged arson incident; the alleged sexual assault and abuse - August 13
◼ Judge Miles once again, has to reprimand Jeremy Kish's drama in court and tell him to zip it - August 11
◼ "We only have so much time, we need to deal with what is on calendar today"; Jeremy Kish pushes his luck with the Judge and gets called on his court shenanigans - July 31

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◼ Jason Balke: Frequently arrested Jason Balke in trouble again! - John Chiv/Words Worth - August 17
◼ (UPDATED) Two People Reported Stabbed in McKinleyville; Suspect Detained - Lost Coast Outpost

PREVIOUS COVERAGE:
◼ Rock, Scissors, Crowbar! Clerk Foils Robbery Attempt at McK 76 Station - Hank Sims/Lost Coast Outpost May 13, 2015
◼ Aha! Sheriff’s Office Weighs In on Yesterday’s Tasing - Hank Sims/Lost Coast Outpost December 19/2014
◼ A Guy Was Tased By Law Enforcement in Front of a McK Store Yesterday, But It’s Not Really Clear Why - Hank Sims/Lost Coast Outpost December 19/2014
◼ Three Arrested on Garbage Theft Charges - Hank Sims/Lost Coast Outpost February 9/2012

◼ Two stabbed in McKinleyville; Balke booked in jail - Mad River Union

PREVIOUS COVERAGE:
◼ Threatened with melon-size rock, clerk hits would-be bandit with crowbar - Mad River Union

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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.

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.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Lots of updates: Continuances and Shortages

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