UPDATE: Jane Doe’s attorney responds to verdict (see below).
The plaintiff known as “Jane Doe” in the DeAnza gang rape trial will not be awarded any punitive damages, a jury decided Thursday.
The two defendants in the trial, Christopher Knopf and Kenneth Chadwick, were found not to be liable after a jury spent more than three days deliberating. Attorneys for Jane Doe, 17 years old at the time of a party put on by De Anza College baseball players in 2007, argued the alleged sexual assault was carried out without the girl’s consent because she was too intoxicated.
Bruce Funk, an attorney for Chadwick, told San Jose Inside last week that he would be pursuing a counter-suit following a verdict in his client’s favor.
The plaintiff had been seeking millions of dollars in damages.
Read More at the Mercury News.
Read More at SF Gate.
UPDATE: Hoge Fenton Attorney Issues Statement on Behalf of Jane Doe in De Anza Rape Case
After a civil trial spanning nine weeks and involving ten defendants, the jury reached a verdict against the plaintiff in the closely watched De Anza College Rape Case. Barbara Spector, heading the legal team of Daniel Ballesteros, Monica Burneikis and Crystal Riggins of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, issued a statement today on behalf of their client, Jane Doe:
“Ms. Doe wishes to express her gratitude for the time and dedication the jury devoted to her case.
The jury was told about a seventeen-year-old who was served shots of alcohol at a party and became highly intoxicated. At that point, members of the De Anza College Baseball Team made a choice: instead of keeping the young woman out of harm’s way, they confined her in a small bedroom and engaged in group sexual activity.
When three De Anza College soccer players, Lauren Bryeans, Lauren Chief-Elk and April Grolle, rescued the teenager by breaking into the room, they found her with vomit on her face, partially clothed, and in a semi-comatose state requiring hospitalization. The baseball team members then made another choice: they walked out of the bedroom and did nothing to assist.
In telling her story, Jane Doe wishes to focus attention on these choices, and encourage the example set by the soccer players of caring for, rather than exploiting, one another.”
Spector added that earlier in the trial, the client received significant settlements from a number of the defendants. At that point, Jane Doe could have walked away without being subjected to the onslaught of personal accusations she knew would be coming. Instead she took the stand and told her story. “She is the bravest young woman we know,” said Spector.
I am deeply saddened and very disappointed with the jury’s verdict in the DeAnza rape case. I know deciding a verdict is a difficult job and they found them “not guilty” based on lack of evidence. I also believe that the men involved will carry this burden and also be judged by others (hopefully) for the rest of their lives.
Even with all these considerations, one thing is true: the damage they did to this individual woman is unacceptable in a civilized society. It sends a message that mistreating another human being is o.k. The fact that she is a woman, was handicapped by her age and intoxicated and taken advantage of in a vulnerable state makes this crime horrific. It’s nothing short of cruel and sadistic.
I have raised two adults – one male and one female. Had any of these boys been mine, as their Mother, I would love him less. I would have lost my respect for him and I would never look at him with the same unconditional love as before he made the decision to participate in the gang rape. He would have broken my heart and I would suffer the rest of my life as his mother, knowing he broke another person’s heart and body intentionally.
I’m grateful none of these boys are my boys. I pray for the families they belong to. I hope the girl finds solace and peace in her life and I believe God will forgive them all.
Not enough evidence for criminal or civil trail
Another self induced drunk teenager having consensual group sex – another day another teen wh*** in politically correct California where boys are guilty until proven innocent but girls are always innocent and not held responsible for their actions
As a young boy in the 3rd grade walking home after school. I came on a large group of boys circled around a large commotion. I can still hear the yelling of the group , Get Her, Delano, *uck her Delano.
I have carried that thought with me all of my life. I could not help that poor girl as she was being raped. Walking away, I felt less a man, yet I was only 7. I felt lost in a storm of people that cared not of the human spirit nor of a young girl’s honor. I walked home with my head held down. Ashame that I did not sacrifice my self for her. I did not even tell my parents once home.I am feeling that shame once again, only this time, I am telling you ALL. I am making a difference in Me.
I was not there at De Anza. Nor do I wish to judge the jury. I have this to say to all of you. Those that choose to criticise Jane Doe, will forever carry the stench of your own world of guilt. Some friends vilified Jane Doe, for her part as if to say the rapists were lured by a seiren as in Ullises’
Many of my good friends simply stated what is the reality of this horrible happening. No Man should have the mind to do this to a woman in any condition, under any circumstance.
Delano, if you are still alive. Know that you have company in these rapists and those that rallied around you screaming for you to *uck her, *uck Her Not much has changed in 62 years, except me. This event has put us on the map of communities where the strings of justice are pulled as if we were puppet.
I am sick with emotion for this Jane Doe, and these very very sick men that were raised to rape with out conscious it is almost as vile as the children used in 3rd world countries to slave in factories to provide us with slick shit.
For the rest of my life, this jury will forever be known by Me as “The Delano Jury”
Gil Hernandez
The Village Black Smith
This DeAnza case is like the 2006 travesty of justice that took place at Duke. This politically-motivated prosecution resulted in the disbarment of lead prosecutor DA Mike Nifong.
Everyone wanted to find the white males guilty despite the evidence. Sounds like nobody in the DeAnza case except DA Carr learned from Mike’s mistakes.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060806/14duke.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case
There seems to be an widely held opinion that the men charged in DeAnza rapes got off when if fact they will pay a very heavy price for their actions for years if not their lifetimes
How many actually had sex with the teenage girl asking for sex and how many just watched – all have been convicted by media and public opinion of rape even if the watched rather that had sex
– a Google search of their names will forever link them to DeAnza rape case
– they were suspended from baseball team so lost years of play and any chance of athletic scholarship or professional career
– would you admit them into any college, graduate or professional school – unlikely
– they will be discriminated against for years – would you hire them, work with them, socialize or be friends with, have your daughter or sister date accused rapists even if some did not actual have sex with the girl
the girl who got drunk apparently not the first or last time to get drunk and encouraged sex with men at a party
She decided to pursue the boys in a civil trial for large payoff for her widely recognized public victimization encouraged by attorneys and media was never named and can easily change her name and be lost in time if she changes her behavior
Will she repeat what she has been doing for many years because she now has an excuse for her behavior as a victim traumatized for life and therefor has no responsibility for her behavior past or future
For many in media and public, the men will never be punished, discriminated against, shunned, forgiven or forgotten enough because they were the DeAnza rapists and when they die someone or media who has never forgiven them will mention they were one of DeAnza rapists
At what point do stupid youthful behavior judged but non criminal questionably moral behavior be punished enough especially those the boys who just watched –
In this Internet and politically correct age – probably never
I feel very sorry for their families. the boys who just watched and believe the irresponsible boys and girl who had drunken will all suffer for years
– So Sad that an night of youthful drinking and sex can change so many lives forever
I doubt very seriously the DeAnza “rape” case will be noted in their obituaries, unless one or more of them meet a tragically youthful demise.
Otherwise, I agree completely.
Shame on DA Jeff Rosen for exploiting this case during his election campaign when most of the facts were not available to the public. Does he have any integrity? Jeff may be The Biggest Loser in this case.
Rosen says he hasn’t decided whether to file criminal charges against these fellows. I’m so glad I voted for Carr last year, and only wish I’d been joined by just a few hundred more of us, alas.
Some of you seem to be forgetting that there were ethical issues surrounding Carr in the election that largely contributed to her getting tossed out by angry voters.
I was glad to see that Rosen has reopened the De Anza investigation and assigned a veteran prosecutor to review the evidence, including the evidence that Carr never bothered to have tested. No matter what you think of Rosen, or who you supported in the election, it makes obvious sense for the new DA to take a second look at a troubling case where even the jurors concede justice was not served.
According to the Merc, Rosen says this review would probably take up to 6 months. It will be interesting to see the results of this “second set of eyeballs” on the case.
In the end Rosen may agree with his predecessor that the case, while reeking to high heaven, is unwinable. Given the way law enforcement botched the investigation and the alcohol-fueled memories of witnesses, it’s a tough case.
However, if the new investigation does result in a conviction and appropriate prison sentences (plus a life sentence in the Megans Law database) then that’s the price these progeny of local sports heroes “from good families” must pay for gang raping a vomiting 17 year old while their friends blocked the door and stood around mastrubating.
In a sense, by reopening the investigation some small measure of justice is being served. These scumbags get to spend the next 6 months wondering if they are going to end up in San Quinton bunking with Big Bubbah where what they did to that girl could happen to them, every night.
Sleep well, “gentlemen.” Carr wouldn’t prosecute you, but Rosen just might.
My original criticism of Rosen still stands. He cheaply exploited this case and young woman for his personal benefit during the DA election campaign.
This may be acceptable behavior for many politicians, but I question the integrity and judgement of a DA who behaves in this manner.
Get over it! You guys supported her!
“You guys supported her!” If by “you” you mean SJPD/SJPOA you are wrong. We specifically stayed out of that race due to the so-called “hometown rule.”
“Given the way law enforcement botched the investigation and the alcohol-fueled memories of witnesses, it’s a tough case”
Well, that would be Sheriff Laurie Smith and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. You know, the same agency that wants to run airport security. The same agency that is supposed to handle Valley Transit Authority policing but calls SJPD to do it. The same agency that negotiated away the Department of Corrections to take the jail back over. The same agency that is willing to provide “police services” to any city or town with a checkbook. The same agency that kisses off every call they can to adjacent municipal agencies whenever possible. At what point will the citizens of Santa Clara County wake up and ask themselves “Why am I in this handbasket and where am I going that is getting so hot?”
There has already been a “second set of eyes”—The Attorney General at the time—Jerry Brown. And he agreed with Ms. Carr.
Just another waste of time for political grandstanding purposes. Ray Mendoza is busy enough trying real rape cases for real victims.
There’s no need to re-test anything. We already know who the guys were, just as we know that Barry Bonds did steroids and OJ is a double murderer. Who did what is not and never really has been a major issue in this case.
Silence is usually a show of support by the lambs. Now SJPD is out of jobs at the airport. She didn’t hesitate to do that. Got to give it to her for the hometown rule! Later Toothless Gator
“In telling her story, Jane Doe wishes to focus attention on these choices”
Of course she does. Of course she wants to focus on the bad choices the young men made and none of the horrible choices she made.
The DeAnza baseball party was her second stop. She had already been partying and drinking. She brought more liquor and then proceeded to get drunk. She didn’t check in with her mother and she let her friend who she arrived with drive off in her car leaving herself with no ride home. She proceeded to act in an overtly and explicitly sexual manner and propositioned several men. Then she went into the room with them.
Yes, I am sure she is less ashamed to focus on their mistakes rather than her own. She would have been a braver young woman if she had said no to drinking and been able to have a good time without getting liquored, acting like a slut then blaming the boys.
The people who support Ms Jane Doe act as if this case is a referendum on rape. It is not. It is a definite statement about this cry of rape. The jury saw it differently and apparently so did the DA.
Justice has been served, within the limits of the available evidence.
I would put it a bit differently: “Justice has been served, within the limits of our legal system.” However justice has not been served on the larger moral questions surrounding the actions of the young men.
These guys are the lowest of the low, they took advantage of an obviously intoxicated 17 year old who, herself, was behaving badly. That she may have contributed to the rape might make for a nice legal argument, but it does not change the indefensible action of gang raping the young woman.
The De Anza baseball players may have won in court, their lawyers were able to create the necessary legal nuances to lead to a verdict that even the jurors said was unfair. Others’ tacitly acknowledged responsibility by settling out of court, but to my knowledge none has ever apologized for their loutish behavior.
Despite this dubious “victory” in court, the De Anza players will never be able to claim they are honorable men. Who would hire these guys for a job? Who would want them to date their daughter? Who would want them living next door?
Perhaps, in some sense, justice may still be served as society delivers the judgment the courts would not. Perhaps some of the defendants may eventually have the courage to look in the mirror and say “I am a rapist.” Then there would be a small measure of justice.
Someday, somehow, sometime in their lives, they are going to have to pay for this. You know, when you are young some of the things that you do aren’t focused upon until you are older and more mature in life…then it hits you and you suffer with that event in your mind for the rest of your life. They may have gotten by the jury, but in time, they will not be able get by their own selves. It does not matter whether she was drunk, seductive, or whatever…they should not have taken advantage of her in that state. There is no excuse. The question is: would a reasonable person, who was not inebriated, consent to or allow something like this to happen to them? What do you think?
Injury lawsuits seeking large sums of money are not the place to sort out “larger moral questions”. They are exclusively about getting money.
This ill-advised lawsuit by a young woman who sought out (and allegedly had)multiple sex partners on multiple occasions, both before and after the DeAnza events, and who gave explicit directions to her fellow drunk DeAnza partygoers as to the precise type of sex that she wanted from them, has tainted the well considerably for all women who are truly raped.
Her lawsuit and its result will set the clock back a couple of decades for rape victims who will be even more fearful now to report their rapes.
Allegedly both before and since the DeAnza incident, this young woman has sought out sex while binge drinking. Do you even get to the question of consent when the young woman was clearly the sexual aggressor in the DeAnza incident and was giving explicit instructions as to the type of sex she wanted that night? Twelve jurors clearly answered a resounding NO. Even juror Mr. Archeta answered that question with a No.
Morally, the young men who participated in those events are clearly in the wrong. But Ms. Doe bears considerable blame as well. Lawsuits for money are not the way to solve the moral issues inherent in the outrageous conduct of almost everyone involved, including Ms. Doe.
Judgment clouded by copious amounts of alcohol can lead to disatrous results. But when you wake up the next day rueing what you did last night, suing your fellow drunk revelers for money is not the proper response. Cleaning up YOUR act is the proper response, Ms. Doe.
Apparently our now single mom Ms. Doe, who subsequently offered drinks to other men with a shot glaass in her cleavage (while claiming PTSD from her DeAnza sexual encounter in her lawsuit) has yet to learn that lesson. Perhaps the jury’s verdict will help her along in that regard.
It is truly disturbing that those who decry rape the loudest (and shouldn’t we all) would side with this immature unwise female who quite literally set up every single domino and then encouraged somebody to tip the first one. As others have also said, there are so many legitimate victims of sexual abuse that this case does a huge disservice to true victims.
I listened read and watched just about every news account of this story from day one. I saw the soccer girls on Oprah and saw. The 20/20 story. I was disappointed when the DA don’t file charges but impressed that the case was transferred to the State AG. I was disappointed again when the AG concurred with the DA’s conclussion.
Like so many, I was sure that the baseball players were guilty and were going to escape justice. Then the civil suit started , since I was convinced that any criminal trial was a slam-dunk conviction the civil suit with its lowered threshold for proof was also a lock.
I continued following the case in the news and through the daily blogs and supplemental articles in the Merc. Blogs and articles that were written from a perspective that I shared with the reporters: that the players were guilty and would be found liable!
As the trial went on the tone of the blogs changed based as the testimony given in the courtroom painted a totally different picture of the event than the trial the media waged.
Sorry Ms. Spector, the testimony rendered in court under oath did not support your assertions or those of the soccer girls or your client.
The settlements defendents offered and were accepted were made by defendents family’s homeowners insurance companies legal teams who were footing the bill for the legal defense. The settlements were simple dollars and cents business deals. If the decision had been left to the defendents they would have taken their chances and stuck it out until the end of the trial.
So who won here? The defendents? No we (the public) did a pretty good job of ruining their names. The plaintiff ? No. She already had a bad reputation that was confirmed in court. She will see very little if any of the settlement money. Ms. Spector and the gang at Fenton Hoge? Yes! Regardless of the verdict their billable hours will be paid out of the settlement. The Jury System? Yes, the system worked. We don’t have to like the verdict but the jury heard the facts and weighed the evidence. In the end they agreed that it didn’t add up to even 51% – a much lower burden than in a criminal trial. DA Carr? Yep. Turns out she and her office didn’t just fall off the turnip truck – like it or not her initial assessment of the case was correct and she is owed an apology.
Mercury News trashed DA Carr and promoted their candidate Jeff Rosen who owes them for his election after months of negative Carr articels, opinions and attack pieces
Shame on Mercury, but then they have shown Mercury’s management, editorial and reporters have no shame, ethics or integrity as we constantly see in their ultra liberal political opinions as news commonly with distorted facts or mo facts just distorted opinions
What is the difference between Mercury News and and toilet paper – nothing except Mercury is more expensive and doesn’t flush down toilet well
Yep, D.A. Carr is owed a huge apology. D.A. Rosen used this case during his campaign saying that if he is elected, he will re-open the criminal case. I think this was an extremely foolish statement because it proves either:
A) Rosen is not smart enough to know this case would not stand the standard of “proof beyond a reasonable doubt”
B) Rosen is performing his job based on public opionion.
Neither of the above give me complete confidence in the current leadership of the D.A.‘s office!!
Despite decades spent monitoring the evolution of our culture, I have to admit I’m confused that so many people are critical of the behavior of the young people involved in this case. Someone help me here, I’m at a loss to figure out:
… what is it these boys did that was so bad? It seems to me that their behavior was consistent with what has always been expected when sex-obsessed, drunken young men of low expectations get together with cheap women. When I was young such behavior—thought to be representative of lower class men at their worst, was associated with “drunken sailors,” and decent girls knew better than to consort with them. It seems in this case the young woman knew the young men, was aware of their capacity for depravity, and used that knowledge to precipitate the sexual free-for-all that followed. I sincerely doubt that she would’ve behaved as she did, or even attended the party, had the young men in attendance been known to be gentlemen with an appreciation for decent women.
… why the complaint about the young woman’s behavior? If there is an accepted standard of sexual behavior for young women would someone please show it to me. Did we not, courtesy of forty years of jackhammering by the all-knowing liberal establishment, bust up all the old-fashioned, concrete notions regarding female sexuality? Don’t you all remember being educated that sex differences were social in construct, that females were really just like males, and that double-standards should never be tolerated? Well, if you honestly accept all that and still deny this young woman the right to act like a drunken sailor then you’re a hypocrite.
… all the fuss about the letter of the law. Sure, the girl was seventeen at the time and in a state where the age of consent is eighteen, but come on, isn’t the real law today whatever some politician says it is? Has it been the rule that this county’s DA files in such cases (commonly referred to as statutory rape)? No, not for many decades—because the political climate, not the law, has changed. The letter of the law is regularly ignored by our elected officials, be it scoffing at marriage laws, declaring a city a sanctuary for illegal aliens, or excusing unlicensed drivers from the penalties set by the legislature in Sacramento. Can we really hold our young people—who grew up accustomed to laws being disrespected, and in a climate where Ted Kennedy was venerated as the Lion of the Senate, to restrain themselves from fudging the rules?
The DeAnza case looks to me like nothing more than decades of liberal nonsense coming home to roost. Contrary to the indoctrination now in vogue, human beings don’t evolve very quickly, making the notion that the rules that constrain them can be discarded without consequence just plain dumb. Males are sexually aggressive because Nature made them that way, and it once was that we used the brutal power of culture to keep that aggression in check. Same with females, made by Nature to compete for male attention, and once controlled in a much different manner by that same demanding culture. Not so today, when far too many young people are being raised without clearly defined values and expectations while at the same time having their impressionable minds ruined by scoundrels elected to office, bullshit shovelers on campus, and greed-obsessed smut peddlers in Hollywood.
Debaucheries of the type involved in this case, once a rarity at campus functions, are today quite common, yet at the same time the sexual misconduct of the most serious type, the unknown perpetrator/ambush rape, remains as statistically rare an occurrence as it has always been. What this reveals is that while there’s been no increase in misconduct of a type unaffected by cultural expectations, there has been a huge increase of the type most susceptible to cultural restraints; this, folks, is evidence of a culture not doing its job.
To scoundrels in politics and the media the DeAnza case was an election issue; given a chance, academics would surely make the issue one of sexual inequality; and given sufficient box-office potential, Hollywood would be happy to make it into a comedy (once its top stars get out of rehab). In this broken culture of ours there is never a shortage of open mouths eager to feed on a tragedy.
The DeAnza case was never the DA’s to unravel or the civil court’s to settle; it was always ours, the parents’, the community’s, the country’s to prevent in the first place. If we want a generation of decent young ladies and civilized gentlemen it is up to us to make them out of the raw material Nature provides, otherwise what we can expect from our young people is what we got here: behavior so raw that it defies civilized comprehension.
You can start with the Hip-Hop culture where they glorify drugs, treating women as, “Ho’s.” It’s cool to carry guns and other weapons. It’s cool to hate cops. Hip-Hop is certainly a cancer to the once great American culture.
“The DeAnza case was never the DA’s to unravel or the civil court’s to settle; it was always ours, the parents’, the community’s, the country’s to prevent in the first place. If we want a generation of decent young ladies and civilized gentlemen it is up to us to make them out of the raw material Nature provides, otherwise what we can expect from our young people is what we got here: behavior so raw that it defies civilized comprehension.”
I was on the lightrail, one evening. I saw two femles get on. They had to be around 14-15 years old. They sat on the long seat in the middle aisle. All of a sudden, one of them barfs all over herself, the seat and the floor. All you could smell was alcohol. She passed me and wreaked of alcohol. All I could think of was what would your mother say if she could see you, right now? I agree that it starts with the parents to nurture these children into respectable adults. When I see our youth, today (not all. Some are very good), with the huge holes in their ears and rings coming out of everything and tats all over their face, I shudder that this is the generation we have to look forward to running our country. I was brought up with manners. Many of these children have none. Again, not all. They are disrespectful, loud, belligerent. I brought up my children to have manners and stressed to them to ensure that they do the same with my grandchildren. My 4 year old grandchild is extremely polite. If you pay her a compliment, she thanks you and has learned to do that from the time she could understand and form words. When she requests something, she knows to say “please”. If parents do not take the time to have more oversight and interaction with their children, we are not going to like what their generation brings us.
Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s biggest liars, most powerful unethical news organization and political manipulators are trying to lecture the community about what is right and wrong in DeAnza case after unfairly trashing Delores Carr for months to promoted their recruited DA candidate is just more Mercury News’s unethical hypocrisy
Murky lies and attacks will probably not reach legal definition of slander and libel but there were morally wrong
Mercury News owes Deloris Carr a full front page apology but don’t expect she will see any apologies from Mercury’s unethical hypocritical liars
Ah. BSM. There you are. I’ve missed your clarity and your literarty style. Thanks for popping in to opine.
“The De Anza case seemed like a done deal when a civil jury last week sided with the two remaining defendants against the young woman who claimed she was gang-raped by a group of the college’s baseball players when she was 17 and highly intoxicated.
But Friday, District Attorney Jeff Rosen appointed a prosecutor in his office with 25 years experience trying sex cases and other serious crimes to review the De Anza case.
Chief Trial Deputy Ray Mendoza will start from scratch, testing all the bedding and other physical evidence in the case and reviewing every interview of witnesses by sheriff’s detectives, as well as the entire transcript from the nine-week civil trial. That means the group of about eight men will be on tenterhooks for some time to come.
Rosen said he thinks the review will take up to six months”
Rosen is such a douche. This is about trying to reduce embarrassment for himself, and his allies at the Mercury News, and has nothing what-so-ever to do with any pursuit of justice…For only an imbecile could imagine that a failed civil suit will lead to a successful criminal prosecution. Rosen isn’t that stupid; he know he just wasting our tax dollars in order to shore up his PR prospects.
Carr should run for DA in 2014.w
Wow, BS Monitor, you really hit the nail on the head with that last post. Too bad the people who need to read and understand it won’t pay attention.
“Wow, BS Monitor, you really hit the nail on the head with that last post. Too bad the people who need to read and understand it won’t pay attention.”
Yep, they are too busy watching MTV, The Kardashians, Jersey Shore, and a plethora of other social trash that reinforces the notion that sexual promiscuity is the right of every woman, until they decide midway through the act, or days later, that they have changed their minds. Personal responsibility portrayed on TV is long gone other than an occasional Dr. Phil episode…
Why did Murky News hate Carr so much and want Rosen in?
Dolores Carr was married to John Carr, a retired SJPD Lieutenant. The San Jose Pravda, aka Murky News, hates anything SJPD with a passion. The only way to get them to say anything positive about anything is to side against the SJPD and then you are on their golden list. Rosen made all kinds of promises to reinstate policies that the liberal Murky News likes and so he was their pick too.
What specific policies has Rosen changed at the request of the Mercury News? Surely you have facts to back your statements. Name the promises.
Wasn’t there a questions re: private investigations with a current case that got her husband into some problems. I understand the lack of Mercury ethics does that mean you have to join the same level?
Perhaps you need to re-read my post. I did not say Rosen changed any policies at the behest of the Murky News. I said that he made campaign promises, such as reinstating certain task forces and groups, that the Murky News likes. I don’t think the Murky News asked him to do anything. I think they like what he is doing because it is different than what Dolores Carr did. But, as soon as he does something Carr like, they will flip flop and he will be on their bad side.
This isn’t unusual, it is happening with Chief Moore of SJPD right now. He has his honeymoon period and is bending over backwards to make all the snivelers happy. Sooner or later he will make a decision they don’t like and he will be vilified like Carr was. As for the “investigations”, when the Murky News slings mud that doesn’t always qualify as an “investigation”. The Murky News loves to write slanderous pieces about law enforcement and title them as investigative journalism but rarely does anything legal ever come from them. Sensationalism sells, period.
This is an important question and the best answer is that the Mercury News liked its relationship with the gang that took over DA Kennedy’s last term in office, manipulated the mayoral contest by timing criminal charges against a sitting mayor simply to defeat Cindy Chavez, and engaged in racially-tainted, one-sided transparency regarding hate crimes.
If you haven’t noticed, the leading elements of the DA Rosen administration are right out of that gang’s playbook. They haven’t hidden their role in Kennedy’s last term, and they are riding high right now. Expect the last term of DA Kennedy repeated down to the finest political detail.
Interesting. Titillating. Tantalizing.
But an awful lot of “inside baseball”.
So, dish!
Names. Dates. Places. Nature of act performed.
Why did Murky News hate Carr so much and want Rosen in?
Republican Carr beat Merc’s endorsed candidate Democrat Karyn Sinunu by impressive 60% votes
Sinunu was DA’s top assistant who meet nearly every week with Mercury for 3 years on investigation of DA’s office for ‘Tainted Trials, Stolen Justice’ series Some wonder why other serious questions about the DA’s office weren’t addressed by Sinunu for 3 years until the Mercury published their story
Other believe if Sinunu had address problems it would have killed Merc’s story and upset her strongest political backer
Merc had inside access to DA office and records with Sinunu but nit Carr and wanted inside access to SJPD police records for more investigator attack stories and Carr with SJPD successfully block Merc inside access
DA Carr blocked Merc getting more DA records and San Jose police records to be used by Merc for more negative DA and SJPD stories
It because very nasty politically targeting Carr for defeat and finding their 2nd DA candidate
Merc went after Carr and her husband a retired SJPD cop almost daily with 2nd / 3rd hand rumors and accusations and shopped for out of town experts who could be quoted questioning both Carr’s actions or public comments to get their 2nd DA candidiate Democrat Rosen elected
Rosen heavily quoted Merc stories all during his and Merc’s DA campaign and heavily owes Merc so expect Merc to direct Rosen politically to their advantage
Metro runs San Jose Inside – So where is Metro on DeAnza case and Mercury’s Rosen vs Carr political battles ?
Here’s another example of a leftist attempt to create a “hate crime” where none actually existed. This from the same area of North Carolina that gave us the Duke LaCrosse rape hoax:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/history-repeating-another-hoax-college-hate-crime-charge-in-north-carolina/?singlepage=true
This is a disturbing trend.