Probation or prison? On Friday, Juan Mehserle all former police officers of manslaughter death of BART Oscar Grant III, is condemned by a man in Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry.
Same court building in the center of the OJ Simpson trial humiliated, Perry is waiting for a wide range of sentencing options, from probation to 14 years in prison juggling of the State of California. Perry will also consider a motion by the defense Mehserle early October asking for a new trial. The end result of the race if charged will be closely watched by supporters of Grant and Mehserle and could trigger more protests in Oakland, the city, where Grant was killed New Year's Day 2009.
The California Penal Code provides for prison sentences of two, three or four years for manslaughter. Because a weapon was Mehserle improve compensation for the use of a firearm in the death sentenced Grant, Perry was a further three, four or ten years of his sentence to be added.
Last Friday, lawyers, family members and John Grant Mehserle plans to ask the Court to different sentences, but what the sentencing options can be mixed and matched in full by Judge Perry.
"He has a great team," said lawyer Michael Rains Mehserle. "I do not know what to expect."
Since July Mehserle conviction, says Grant family says they are more than 5,000 letters from residents of the problem in the Bay Area Judge Perry Johnson Cephus financial year is provided in the community where he grew granting large.
"This is the head of police for the murders he committed," said Johnson. "If he is 14 years, resulting in a ray of hope that justice works, and it is a message for the officers, convicted for the murders, the police".
Last Friday, the rain and Perry argue for probation for the gun to throw the questions to improve persuasion. Regent said it does not apply in this case because the jury's conviction of murder includes the conclusion that Mehserle deliberately not using the gun. "I think the judge considered that it was wrong," said Rains. "He can decide who is not afraid to judge him based on the involuntary."
Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said that although the conviction was the result difficult to predict the spread of weapons could be eliminated or minimized by Perry. "My problem is that there is no point in this case," said Weisberg. [Mehserle] is to bear arms. One might think that [Perry] would be a decision fairly low-end kit, and perhaps to strengthen the expansion, along with imprisonment. "
Before the sentence began, Perry was quoted rains movement "for a new process to address, among other things, like a shot in Kentucky, which was discovered by the defense after the verdict in July. After the Rain, April 2008 only eight months before Grant, a police officer in Nicholasville, Kentucky, accidentally fired the gun instead of his taser, injuring a man. A grand jury eventually went to complain to the official rainfall. claimed that he is capable of transmitting Mehserle this information to the jury was present, the verdict has fluctuated. Results for the movement of rainfall was about the procedures and the way Friday for a court Mehserle a new trial on charges of manslaughter.
Oakland officials also sentenced Friday to prepare for the installation of additional police officers in Oakland and external agencies. In an e-mail, said police spokesman Officer Holly Joshi Oakland made a peaceful protest, a center of action, but I will not tolerate "any violence or destruction of buildings or personal property."
After killing a decision in July, the first city-sanctioned violent peaceful protest in the city of Oakland, and led to looting and violence. At least 12 businesses were destroyed and 78 people were fined by the city ended the rally stopped. The city attorney has filed a lawsuit against four alleged looters since.
During the protests were the central streets July 12th and 19th Street closed temporarily.
BART officials say they have at the station in downtown Oakland on Friday in the area in case of a major event. BART service recommendations published on its website and receive text messages and e-mail updates.
Monday ', the members of the BART officially opened its office in downtown Oakland headquarters for the first independent mayor Bart assigned BART police public complaints about the police investigate the house. In July, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law creating the Authority, in response to the question of fire.
In a statement to the economy in Oakland on Wednesday, said City Administrator Dan Lindheim local businesses are closed, and said: Oakland is the best hope, but prepare for the worst. "Even if you expect large protests and demonstrations taking place, the resources of the Oakland police and the plans for the event that a protest and then respond," said Lindheim.
Lindheim also found that Friday is a day in Oakland with a sold-out concert at the Fox Theatre and the First Friday Art Walk takes place it is.
There are at least at a rally on Friday in support of Oscar Grant expected. A coalition of organizations, including the General Assembly for justice for Oscar Grant, asking supporters of flowers at a temporary altar for mayor of Oakland from 14.00 hours to do.
The local social and religious organization of the plan are in the city serve as a peacekeeping force in the protests turn violent. Teams of five or more peacekeepers trained to transform situations of violence to walk and in contact with the police in Oakland friendships.
Lawyers for both sides to push for a peaceful reaction to the conviction. "If you decide that you want to protest. Exercising First Amendment rights of assembly and freedom of expression," said John Burris, an attorney adviser to the family of a grant. "This does not mean it should be based on violence."
"What we see is, of course, without violence or damage to property," said Rains. "You can use the posters, denouncing the decision. What is, of course, there is no need for the next level, violence, destruction and looting".
source: http://oaklandnorth.net/2010/11/04/mehserle-sentencing-expected-friday/
