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Freitas v Pleasant Hill Police Department/City of Pleasant Hill


Posted on Saturday, 10/03/2009 - 6:03 p.m. PDT — by JusticeForAll
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Superior Court Trial, June/July of 2009.. Seeking justice due to negligent police work. An innocent young man (our son) was arrested and jailed ($30,000 bail) instead of the true assailant, a known, troubled son of a former Mayor of Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy who had stabbed again, having been freed (no charges filed) following his arrest for a previous attack-(attempted car-jacking/attempted robbery, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon-doing great bodily injury). It appears there had been no Pleasant Hill Police Department follow-through related to blood evidence on the offender's clothing. Please visit our blog at.. JuryUninformed.blogspot.com ..to learn more about the handling of two stabbing investigations, and the special treatment apparently provided the former mayor's son. Thank you in advance for your interest, and assistance in sharing our story.. Carol and Vernon Freitas Pleasant Hill

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Wednesday, 10/07/2009 - 8:59 p.m. PDT — Justice was Served
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The City of Pleasant Hill offered to settle.  You refused.  You took the case to trial.  A jury heard the case and spoke.  So yes, justice has been served; you just do not like the justice.

Your son is a grown man of, what, 20 years of age?  Yet, you seem to treat him as a baby.  Grow up, all of you, and get on with life.  Otherwise, your son will still be a baby at the age of 60.

Moral to the story: No one ever knows how a judge or jury will rule.

Thursday, 10/08/2009 - 10:52 a.m. PDT — Pleasant Hill Police
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go to JuryUninformed.blogspot.com

What the jury actually heard, overwhelmingly, was "objection" throughout the trial. The city's attorney wouldn't allow jurors to hear how the Pleasant Hill Police Department handled two stabbing investigations and the special treatment they appear to have provided the true assailant, the son of the former Mayor of Pleasant Hill/retired Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy.
 
The $17,500 offer from the City of Pleasant Hill came a couple of days before the trial began-- 2 & 1/2 years after continually denying any wrongdoing following their cursory arrest and incarceration of our son.  Prior to that offer, City attorney Debra Margolis had stated an offer would not be made as it would affect the "morale" of Pleasant Hill Police officers.  The actions of specific officers within the PHPD led to our $35,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, most of which--following bail and criminal defense attorneys--we accumulated seeking answers and evidence your department claimed to have while attempting to justify our son's arrest, and two flawed investigations.  
 
Tax-paying citizens of Pleasant Hill and Contra Costa County have a right to know.  Through this blog they are given the opportunity to be informed.   
 
JuryUninformed.blogspot.com
 

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