I was in court yesterday for part of the hearing. Bail remains set at $1,000,000 each. Preliminary hearing remains set for Friday, May 18th at 10:00 in Judge Pamela Butler’s court room, although a challenge under Penal Code 170.6 seems likely to be filed by one of the five attorneys in the matter.
One evening anchor man from a local Monterey station was present, and asked to speak to Tom Worthington, Juliet Peck, or myself, but we were all too upset with the court’s refusal to consider anything the defense had to say about a bail reduction, to respond to the press.
Given the nature of these judicial proceedings, from the overbearing nature of the initial assault on the south coast, to allegations made by the DA in open court, to the court’s refusal to consider anything on behalf of the defendants, as a member of this community I feel stifled in what I can and cannot share on this or any other public forum. I just urge every one to keep an open mind until this case is concluded.
No Willow Springs Maintenance Crew means this section of the highway is no longer safe. Driving home from the North Coast today, Saturday, there was a minor slide south of Limekiln. There were quite a few rocks in the north bound lane, and a few in the south bound lane. There is no one for me to call or stop and see to let them know. This could a harbinger of things to come, not necessarily, but it could be a warning from Mother Nature.
Remember, there are many layers to most cases, this one in particular. Also, as an aside, Cal Trans is suing the estate of the dead bus driver and the tour company who employed him, for damage to a bridge out near Soledad, when the driver crashed into it, killing four French tourists, per a report in yesterday’s Pine Cone. Cal-Trans is suing for one million dollars. I have never heard of such a thing. Nice, huh?
The ballad of Ira Hayes
would a letter to the Judge or the Court help from us?
That is getting more and more bizzarre…
$1 million bail is out of line. We’re not talking the Soprano family here.
This has the smell of a vendetta. Somebody didn’t grease some palm somewhere, ergo payback. The saddest thing is that the entire system is lined up for accepting what looks at the moment as an outrage. Nobody’s questioning the reasoning. Again, Where is Sam Farr?
The damage comes to the SF Bay Area: SF Chronicle ran the story as a brief summary, with names, and the commenters hang the defendants: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/08/state/n111057D37.DTL
Dead link to SF Gate
Yes, because the news reports expire. One can only look at them – for free – for a limited period of time after the event. This is an very old report. I cannot update the link, as it doesn’t exist this long after the event.
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