Archives for February 2015

A protest dealing with the way police departments treat black lives stopped BART on a work day for over two hours.
Should the DA charge the protestors? How should they be punished? Should they be fined? By charging them is the DA advancing their cause?

The suspect in the SF body parts case has died of an apparent overdose. Does this mean the case has been solved? Does this mean we can rest easy knowing the person who committed that atrocity is gone?
SFPD did a shoddy investigation. The SFDA refused to file the case due to lack of credible evidence. Should the cops continue their investigation notwithstanding Andrus’ death?

What caused the SFPD to make an arrest on apparently thin evidence? At the time the case was presented to SFPD there was no forensics that proved this was a criminal homicide, there was no evidence that pinpointed the cause of death, there was no nexus between the person of interest and a crime. Simply put the police did not establish enough evidence to prosecute the person of interest. SFPD needs to explain their thinking in making an arrest on such thin evidence. How will this premature arrest affect the continuing investigation?

An unidentified women, who had graduated college years before decided to go to a frat party on the Stanford campus. Prior to going she consumed 4 shots of whiskey, she continued drinking at the party to a point that she blacked out. Two bicyclists observed her and Brock Turner on the ground near a dumpster. Turner was on top of her thrusting his hips toward her. Police were called and Turner was arrested, he admitted fondling her and digitally penetrating her but not raping her. She told police she blacked out and remembers nothing. What did the DA charge and how will the case be defended?