watchpaul: April 2016

Friday, April 29, 2016

“If you think you have sold heroin to an undercover officer or police informant, we are looking for you. You know who you are.”

◼ ‘Operation Party’s Over’: EPD Concludes Lengthy Undercover Marsh Heroin Sting; Five Arrested - LoCo

After the undercover sting was over, warrants for possession of heroin for sale were written for multiple individuals. To date, Tracy Adams Jr. (26), Martin Crossnoe (49), Philip Myers (26), Larry Gibson (29), and Brian Keffer (39) have been arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for possession of heroin for sale. Additional warrant(s) may be sought in the future.

Chief Mills said, “If you think you have sold heroin to an undercover officer or police informant, we are looking for you. You know who you are.” Additional arrest(s) will be made on or before May 2, 2016.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Weird Push Poll: HC Pot "Conservation" Tax Proposal

An illiterate and almost completely unintelligible semi-push-poll - asking whether you'd be in favor of a TAX on pot grows. Promising the moon, this tax will solve everything from child abuse to the environment. You have to hear the incredible list they lay out, would that make you support this tax?

Ummmm, no. You have to LEGALIZE it first, guys.

(And note to whoever is doing the poll, get someone who can READ. This was embarrassing)

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

This, and Bullock - why you don't raise your kids around drugs - lives wasted. Kailan Meserve found guilty of 15 counts

It is sad for both these families. But sadder still for the victims, who didn't deserve any of what came.

And attorney Russ Clanton no longer has a free pass, get your guy out of jail free (while raking in the bucks) card.

Pot is bad. The pot culture is bad.

◼ DA on Kailan Meserve Verdict - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016
◼ Kailan Meserve tells his family, "I will see you later. It's ok. I love you." - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016
◼ Finally, some justice for victims, particularly women and children, under District Attorney Maggie Fleming's leadership. - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016
◼ Kailan Meserve found guilty of 15 counts, taken away in cuffs after verdict - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016

Sentencing is July 1st at 8:30 a.m.

◼ Verdict in for Kailan Meserve case - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016
◼ After talking to Jane Doe #2, Jeff Groeling calls Travis Howe, another close friend of Meserve and says, "We have a problem." - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016
◼ Defense argument in Kailan Meserve case mostly speculation; prosecution rebuttal exposes defense claims - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016
◼ "We treat rape victims differently than other victims...That's what we do. We put blame on them." - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 19, 2016

◼ "She was frozen with fear... She tells him no. He doesn't stop. After that she doesn't say no." - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 18, 2016
◼ Close to verdict in Meserve case? Jury sends note says they are missing one verdict form - JohnChiv/Words Worth Apr 18, 2016

Monday, April 11, 2016

GUILTY on all counts

◼ Phase 2 to start Friday and go all day, same on the following Monday and Tuesday. - John Chiv/Words Worth Apr 11, 2016 11:51 AM
◼ I think a verdict is in for the Bullock case... - John Chiv/Words Worth Apr 11, 2016 11:07 AM
◼ Bullock jury sends another note to the Judge - John Chiv/Words Worth Apr 11, 2016 9:29 AM

◼ Bullock Found Guilty on All Counts - Lost Coast Outpost 11:51 AM

On its fourth day of deliberations, a jury today found Gary Lee Bullock guilty on all charges, including the first degree murder of Father Eric Freed on Jan. 1, 2014, with special allegations of murder while engaged in torture, residential burglary and carjacking.

Bullock was also found guilty of two counts of residential burglary, the unlawful taking of a vehicle, carjacking (a separate charge), attempted arson and torture (again, a stand-alone charge), all felonies.

With the guilty verdicts now issued, the case will move on to phase two, during which the jury will consider whether Bullock was legally insane when the crimes were committed.

Thursday, April 07, 2016

Waiting: Bullock

The biggest error in Bullock trial coverage has been made by Thad Greenson in the North Coast Journal, which could have been avoided, simply by a small addition stating, "to my knowledge". Thad has covered courts before. The M'Naghten rule and it applying to this case has been covered more than once on my blog in the last year, Times-Standard did an article a couple months ago. The information in the NCJ article is not new. The recent article by Thad it highlights some valid points and challenges about the insanity defense, however it incorrectly states that the Bullock jury is unaware that the trial is bifurcated. Thad only covered Mr. Isaac's opening statement. He has not been in court on any other day for this case. Therefore, he is unaware that from the beginning of jury selection, the jurors were made aware that there would be two phases to this trial. They are very aware that if a guilty verdict is reached in the first phase, then there will phase two to determine whether not guilty by insanity can be proved by the defense. Due to the gag order, no one from the courts can correct or talk about this error.

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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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