Comments for Judge won't remove DA's office from fatal sailboat crash case; trial set to start July 7 at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 14 out of 14 comments http://lakeconews.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:18:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13039 What we have here is justice being raped.She is blind and easy to abuse with dishonest bureaucrats. She screams out but few are hearing. - James Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:27:17 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13024 This is an example of a tragedy that may have been prevented if the rules of the water were followed. I urge everyone to take a safe boating course before going on the water with your boat so that we can help decrease the number of boating accidents. Check out http://www.BoatResponsibly for additional safe boating tips. - SafeBoater Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:23:13 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13019 I went over yesterday morning for the support Bismarck Dinius group on the courthouse steps and was really amazed at the people with signs supporting Perdock, who hasn't even been charged with anything. After sitting in the courtroom and listening to the judge, DA, and defense attorney - and talking with the Perdock supporters out front - I think Dinius better have the best legal representation in the country, he's going to need it. In Lake County, Mendocino County, and I'm sure many more, alcohol equates to "guilty". MADD has done a great job here. One of Perdock's supporters had a sign which read: It's illigal to drink and drive. I ask the person carrying the sign of they knew about the .08 limit. Seemed to make no difference - you drink you're guilty. - boat Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:40:56 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13014 guest: If there are not enough potential jurors on Week One, jury selection will continue until a jury is picked. Given the pre-trial publicity, it may take a couple of weeks more to pick a jury. I find it ironic in the extreme that Hopkins calls the PAS an inaccurate, inadmissible device. The Lake County DA's Office has litigated the admissibility of the PAS at trial and has won most times, to get it admitted into evidence-either as a field sobriety test or as an evidentiary test. The AG's Office will hide under the desk on this one. Saddle up folks, trial is about to begin. The fact the DA's Office is pressing on shows a blindness to justice that even by Lake County standards is pretty stunning. - jazz Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:09:33 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13011 Not enough of a pool according to unknown sources. They are not gunna have a jury. What then. - a guest Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:36:18 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13004 Those two supporters of Perdock, are they both his children? - jwraven Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:06:36 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13003 to check the time Perdock has his blood test at the hospital? Was it long enough for his blood alcohol to go below the limit? And what was it anyhow? - jwraven Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:03:41 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-13002 The sheriff's policy on matters involving injury is to take blood, said Hopkins. That's what happened to Perdock and others at the scene. No one, he said, was administered the PAS, which he called an “inaccurate, inadmissable-in-court device.” WHAT? Did I read this right? Inaccurate" Don't we sentence DUI offenders based on this test everyday? Yet now it's Inaccurate? Furthermore I have seen sentences based upon the level one blowS (asked by a Judge while determining a sentence). Now tell me, who reviews and handles these charges, no one other than the DA's office. If ever I am pulled over I will remember these very words Hopkins, and demand the PAS because now my very own District Attorney has told me the test is inaccurate in "quotes" Injury or no injury. - Shadowknows Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:44:00 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-12997 the defense appeared to present evidence, newly come to light since the last ruling, 4 key points that would/could/should have dropped all charges. Some of those key points were known by the prosecutors and the defense was not given the information. Thank god for Channel 7!! and bad ass investigative reporting!!! Yet this judge did not budge. He honored the new evidence but said that was not sufficient to drop the charges! He's the judge, but I wanna tell ya this is at minimal, embarrassing!! There is so much evidence and testimony against our Sheriff Dept. with the cover-up and lies, bringing this to a jury,inside or outside our county,is at this point in time is going to create and is creating horrible publicity for the County of Lake and future tourism!!! I've been known to be wrong but at least I'm secure enough to admit that! Maybe I'm wrong here too, but for right now I'm ashamed of Jon Hopkins and Rod Mitchell. Perdock was part of the package and following orders, but he to knew and knows this is wrong. - lenny Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:52:06 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-12988 Funny, when I saw the headline I thought the District Attorney needed a RESCUE. Actually, Hopkins needs to be disbarred and save us all from his malfeasance. just my two cents... LAKEPORT – A judge ruled on Tuesday that he would not rescue the Lake County District Attorney's Office from prosecuting a Carmichael man for vehicular manslaughter and boating under the influence in connection with a fatal 2006 sailboat crash on Clear Lake. - Dwain Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:31:56 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-12987 in reference to the (what certainly appears to be) bias interdiction of the alleged law breaker. Trial by jury (given this ever happens) will expectantly lead to a just outcome. However, experience teaches that if the prosecutor chooses to, s/he can boonedoggle and stalemate every effort by the defense to actually have a day in court. - SassafrasWilds Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:09:49 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-12986 like multiple public court dates and trial by jury. - sphere Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:00 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-12985 vouch for any of your posting Sassasfras. It will now be in the hands of a jury of Mr. Dinuis' peers. The judge's ruling is probaby a sound one from his point of view - think he wants any part of this albatross hanging around his professional neck? I'm gonna have faith in the 'we the peeps' that end up on the jury. The prosecution better be on it's knee's praying this doesn't get a change of venue put upon it. It'll be Edmonds/Hughes all over again.:( - Donna Christopher Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:29:13 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9307/919/#comment-12984 So let me see if I understand: A man and a woman were out for an evening cruise in a sailboat. Another man rammed them with such force that his motorboat flew over the sailboat and a woman riding in the sailboat died. The man who was at the helm of the sailboat was charged with manslaughter regarding the death of the woman. The man driving the powerboat, who happend to be an off-duty chief deputy with the Lake County Sheriff's Office, was not charged with any crime and the local prosecutor refuses to recuse his office from the proceedings. Respectfully dear people, this is not 'law & order'... this is defacto the behavior of an arrogant police state whose officials see themselves not as 'servants' of justice but 'masters' of it... - SassafrasWilds Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:19:57 +0100