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"content": "\u003cp>In the month since state inmates \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/07/17/123431/california_prison_hunger_strike_continues?category=bay+area\" target=\"_blank\">launched a hunger strike\u003c/a> to protest conditions at California’s highest-security lockups, corrections officials have alleged the ringleaders are major players in violent prison gangs and that their motives are far from pure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're talking about convicted murderers who are putting lives at risk to advance their own agenda of violence,” corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard wrote in the Los Angeles Times earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the state has more evidence to support those allegations, at least when it comes to inmate Arturo Castellanos, one of four Pelican Bay inmates leading the protest against “indefinite solitary confinement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indictments released Tuesday by federal prosecutors allege Castellanos was part of an elaborate plan to allow Mexican drug cartel members to traffic methamphetamine in Southern California and be protected in state lockups in exchange for money and drugs going to U.S.-based gang leaders, including those currently in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors describe Castellanos as a Mexican Mafia member and “undisputed leader” of a violent Los Angeles street gang known as Florencia 13, or F13 for short. They allege Castellanos issued edicts and directed criminal operations from his cell at Pelican Bay State Prison, where the hunger strike is centered. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said on Tuesday that 364 inmates in seven prisons are still on strike, 210 continuously since July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a> profile below, written after a 2011 hunger strike, I looked at similar allegations against Castellanos and his links to drug trafficking, extortion and murder. As is the case currently, federal prosecutors chose not to indict the alleged Mexican Mafia leader, in part because he’s already serving a life sentence. The story also profiles Ernesto Lira, who was accused of far less criminal activity than Castellanos and was serving a sentence for drug possession in a low-security prison. Yet he, too, like the reputed kingpin Castellanos, was sent to a Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit, because of a drawing found in his locker allegedly containing gang symbols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are their stories ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tale of two inmates at Pelican Bay\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man was a petty thief mistakenly identified as a player in a violent Latino prison gang. The other was a convicted murderer whose numerous assaults behind bars and continuing influence on the streets earned him a reputation as a ruthless gang leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that both men were held for years in stark, windowless cells at Pelican Bay State Prison illustrates the challenge that corrections officials face as they overhaul the state’s controversial, high-security units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1989, Pelican Bay was designed to house California’s most dangerous inmates. The prison’s Security Housing Unit goes a step further, locking inmates identified as prison gang members or associates in a warren of concrete cells where the only view of the outside world is framed on small television sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some inmates have been housed in the units since Pelican Bay opened its gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials say the lengthy confinement and extreme security measures are necessary to curb the ability of gang leaders to pass orders to subordinates in other prisons and on the streets. And they point to inmates like Arturo Castellanos to make their case. Castellanos was convicted of murder in Los Angeles County in 1979 and sentenced to 26 years to life. But his life of crime flourished behind bars, according to prison records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an inmate, Castellanos’ disciplinary record includes six stabbings and various drug violations. In 1990, he was sent to Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit after corrections officials identified him as a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of Pelican Bay’s harsh conditions, authorities allege Castellanos continued to command gang members on the street through edicts smuggled out of prison on tiny scraps of paper known as “kites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2007 federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/249375-indictmentricofinal1-2.html\">indictment\u003c/a>, Castellanos guided a Latino street gang known as F13 as it launched a turf battle against African American rivals. The action triggered a wave of racial violence against African Americans living in the Florence-Firestone area north of Watts, according to court documents. More than 20 people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just amazed that an individual who no one has seen for generations was able to control the violence and illegal criminal activity of an area that he hasn't been to in more than three decades,\" said Peter Hernandez, an assistant U.S. attorney for California's Central District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors eventually indicted 104 suspects in the case, but not Castellanos. He already was serving a life sentence, and the government concluded it was safer to keep Castellanos in isolation and not pull him out of Pelican Bay for court hearings, which would have been required had he been indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was important that … Castellanos not be let out, because he holds sway over gang members to do things they would otherwise not want to do,\" Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2006, Castellanos has been housed in a special section of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit that is reserved for inmates deemed influential gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop him and three other inmates from organizing a three-week hunger strike in 2011 to demand better conditions and changes in department policy. The same inmates organized the current protest that began on July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay Warden Greg Lewis alleges the four hunger strike leaders, including Castellanos, are in the upper echelons of major prison gangs and continue to pose a serious security threat despite being segregated from the general prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody's seen the movie 'The Godfather.' Everybody's seen how the godfather himself never pulled a trigger, never strangled anybody, didn't run the rackets, didn't run the booze. These are those men,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prisoner rights advocates concede that some inmates should be segregated from the regular prison population if they are violent or directly involved in criminal conspiracies, they say the actual number of offenders who fit that criteria is very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation always picks the worst-case scenario and uses it as the norm,” said Carol Strickman, a staff attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A low-security prisoner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the inmates locked in the Security Housing Unit are accused of being gang bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106100\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/lira.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106100\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/lira-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ernesto Lira, once housed at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit. 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He wasn't released from isolation until his release from prison eight years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lira eventually won a judgment in U.S. District Court against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in part for psychological damage he suffered while locked in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Ernesto's case, I think it's very emblematic of the fact that people can be placed in solitary confinement for the littlest of reasons: for having a drawing, for having an address in an address book, without confirming or denying whether that address was used for furthering gang activity,\" said Charles Carbone, an attorney who has represented dozens of Pelican Bay inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2011 hunger strike, state officials have made changes to gang policies, which could keep low-level offenders like Lira out of isolation units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the new policy focuses on locking down inmates who have committed specific offenses for gangs or who are involved in an active conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also provides incentives to allow inmates to work their way out of the units through better behavior. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a> profile below, written after a 2011 hunger strike, I looked at similar allegations against Castellanos and his links to drug trafficking, extortion and murder. As is the case currently, federal prosecutors chose not to indict the alleged Mexican Mafia leader, in part because he’s already serving a life sentence. The story also profiles Ernesto Lira, who was accused of far less criminal activity than Castellanos and was serving a sentence for drug possession in a low-security prison. Yet he, too, like the reputed kingpin Castellanos, was sent to a Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit, because of a drawing found in his locker allegedly containing gang symbols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are their stories ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tale of two inmates at Pelican Bay\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man was a petty thief mistakenly identified as a player in a violent Latino prison gang. The other was a convicted murderer whose numerous assaults behind bars and continuing influence on the streets earned him a reputation as a ruthless gang leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that both men were held for years in stark, windowless cells at Pelican Bay State Prison illustrates the challenge that corrections officials face as they overhaul the state’s controversial, high-security units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1989, Pelican Bay was designed to house California’s most dangerous inmates. The prison’s Security Housing Unit goes a step further, locking inmates identified as prison gang members or associates in a warren of concrete cells where the only view of the outside world is framed on small television sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some inmates have been housed in the units since Pelican Bay opened its gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials say the lengthy confinement and extreme security measures are necessary to curb the ability of gang leaders to pass orders to subordinates in other prisons and on the streets. And they point to inmates like Arturo Castellanos to make their case. Castellanos was convicted of murder in Los Angeles County in 1979 and sentenced to 26 years to life. But his life of crime flourished behind bars, according to prison records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an inmate, Castellanos’ disciplinary record includes six stabbings and various drug violations. In 1990, he was sent to Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit after corrections officials identified him as a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of Pelican Bay’s harsh conditions, authorities allege Castellanos continued to command gang members on the street through edicts smuggled out of prison on tiny scraps of paper known as “kites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2007 federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/249375-indictmentricofinal1-2.html\">indictment\u003c/a>, Castellanos guided a Latino street gang known as F13 as it launched a turf battle against African American rivals. The action triggered a wave of racial violence against African Americans living in the Florence-Firestone area north of Watts, according to court documents. More than 20 people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just amazed that an individual who no one has seen for generations was able to control the violence and illegal criminal activity of an area that he hasn't been to in more than three decades,\" said Peter Hernandez, an assistant U.S. attorney for California's Central District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors eventually indicted 104 suspects in the case, but not Castellanos. He already was serving a life sentence, and the government concluded it was safer to keep Castellanos in isolation and not pull him out of Pelican Bay for court hearings, which would have been required had he been indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was important that … Castellanos not be let out, because he holds sway over gang members to do things they would otherwise not want to do,\" Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2006, Castellanos has been housed in a special section of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit that is reserved for inmates deemed influential gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop him and three other inmates from organizing a three-week hunger strike in 2011 to demand better conditions and changes in department policy. The same inmates organized the current protest that began on July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay Warden Greg Lewis alleges the four hunger strike leaders, including Castellanos, are in the upper echelons of major prison gangs and continue to pose a serious security threat despite being segregated from the general prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody's seen the movie 'The Godfather.' Everybody's seen how the godfather himself never pulled a trigger, never strangled anybody, didn't run the rackets, didn't run the booze. These are those men,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prisoner rights advocates concede that some inmates should be segregated from the regular prison population if they are violent or directly involved in criminal conspiracies, they say the actual number of offenders who fit that criteria is very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation always picks the worst-case scenario and uses it as the norm,” said Carol Strickman, a staff attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A low-security prisoner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the inmates locked in the Security Housing Unit are accused of being gang bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106100\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/lira.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106100\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/lira-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ernesto Lira, once housed at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit. (Michael Montgomery/Center For Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernesto Lira, once housed at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit. (Michael Montgomery/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ernesto Lira was serving a sentence for drug possession in a low-security prison when he was sent to Pelican Bay for an “indeterminate” term. Authorities contended Lira was an associate of a violent Latino group known as Nuestra Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lira was not accused of doing anything tangible for the group. The key piece of evidence against him was a drawing found in his locker that allegedly contained gang symbols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first two months, it was hard to get used to the fact that I'm going to be here,\" Lira said. \"I looked and thought, maybe in a month or two, they'll realize that this is all a mistake and kick me out of here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lira said officials offered him a quick way out of the special unit: He could debrief, or snitch, on other gang members. But as a judge later determined, Lira couldn't do that because he wasn't a member of any gang. He wasn't released from isolation until his release from prison eight years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lira eventually won a judgment in U.S. District Court against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in part for psychological damage he suffered while locked in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Ernesto's case, I think it's very emblematic of the fact that people can be placed in solitary confinement for the littlest of reasons: for having a drawing, for having an address in an address book, without confirming or denying whether that address was used for furthering gang activity,\" said Charles Carbone, an attorney who has represented dozens of Pelican Bay inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2011 hunger strike, state officials have made changes to gang policies, which could keep low-level offenders like Lira out of isolation units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the new policy focuses on locking down inmates who have committed specific offenses for gangs or who are involved in an active conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also provides incentives to allow inmates to work their way out of the units through better behavior. This is known as a step-down program, which usually does not require inmates to debrief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former prison gang leaders like Rene Enriquez say the plan could work. Enriquez was a top leader in the Mexican Mafia who spent 10 years in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit before deciding to leave the gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's a wonderful concept,\" Enriquez said. \"It would have saved me a whole lot of grief. It might have taken me off the hit list.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enriquez’s 2004 debriefing \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEvsD7pyp5w\">video\u003c/a> has attracted more than 600,000 hits on YouTube. Since then, Enriquez has cooperated from behind bars in several high-level gang prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the department should stay tough on gang leaders, but it should take a more nuanced approach toward others, including offering another path out of the isolation units that doesn't include debriefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fifty percent of the members of the Mexican Mafia would gravitate towards dropping out if it was less traumatic … and didn’t require snitching,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, inmates involved in the current hunger strike and prisoner rights advocates say the policy changes don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105439\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Bart-Rally2.jpg\" alt=\"Bart Rally2\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nAbout 400 BART workers and union supporters gathered in Oakland at Frank Ogawa Plaza to rally in support of BART workers standing up for better wages, even if it means \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/bart-strike-update/\">another BART strike\u003c/a>. Then they peacefully marched to BART headquarters. (Deborah Svoboda / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105440\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Danny-Glover.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Glover\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nDanny Glover was one of the speakers at a rally in support of BART workers in downtown Oakland Thursday, Aug. 1. \"If we concede, that we will continue to concede. ... We have to stand up now,\" Glover said. (Deborah Svoboda / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105368\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/taxi-protest.jpg\" alt=\"taxi protest\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nA protester mocks app-based ride company Lyft and its signature pink mustaches at a cab driver rally outside San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday, July 30. Many \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/31/cpuc-rideshare-decision/\">taxi drivers feel the ride apps are unfair \u003c/a>competition and a threat to their business. (Alex Emslie / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Ridesharing-CPUC-decision.jpg\" alt=\"Ridesharing CPUC decision\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nThe California Public Utilities Commission issued a draft decision to allow ride-for-pay apps like Lyft, Uber and Sidecar to operate legally in the state on Tuesday, July 30. If approved by the full commission in early September, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/31/how-the-cpucs-new-rules-will-affect-ridesharing-startups\">the companies would have to comply \u003c/a>with more safety rules and provide vehicles capable of caring for disabled passengers. 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The denial of Domenici's immunity by a lower court was vacated and remanded back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Pirone was fired by BART for escalating the confrontation with Grant and his friends. Domenici was also let go but \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiabeat.org/2010/12/17/controversial-ex-bart-police-officer-marysol-domenici-gets-former-job-back\" target=\"_blank\">regained her job\u003c/a> after a labor arbitrator ruled in her favor. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Suits-can-go-forward-in-Oscar-Grant-case-4696297.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> writes that the case is scheduled to resume in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Aug. 8. Also ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> BART is paying for all of the officers' legal bills and would be responsible for any compensatory damages won at trial. The officers would have to pay any punitive damages.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cephus Johnson, Grant's uncle, told KQED today that the family was pleased with the 9th Circuit's ruling. “We believe the system has somehow allowed us to see that there’s an opportunity here for some redress of these young men and the father through the system,\" he said. \"It would have been an extreme travesty had the 9th Circuit denied these men and the father the right to pursue and have their day in court, which would have been just as much of a travesty as seeing what happened with the Trayvon Martin verdict.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23760300/lawsuit-over-2009-oscar-grant-bart-fracas-can\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury News\u003c/a> wrote that Michael Rains, Mehserle's lawyer, \"was not surprised by the court's decision and is prepared to defend the case if it reaches a trial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ini 2011, BART reached a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20075320-504083.html\" target=\"_blank\">$1.3 million settlement\u003c/a> with Wanda Johnson, Grant's mother, over the shooting. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced Tuesday a plea deal with Chris Bucchere, the Marin County bicyclist who notoriously ran over and killed 71-year-old Sutchi Hui at Market and Castro streets in March, 2012. Bucchere agreed to a charge of felony vehicular manslaughter, but will avoid jail time with a sentence of three years probation and 1,000 hours of community service. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Cyclist-pleads-guilty-in-Castro-crosswalk-death-4680814.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> is reporting that Bucchere could potentially have the conviction reduced to a misdemeanor after six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104438\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/castromarket.mpg_.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-104438\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/castromarket.mpg_-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"The intersection at Castro and Market streets, where bicyclist Chris Bucchere fatally plowed into 71-year-old Sutchi Huiran.\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intersection at Castro and Market streets, where bicyclist Chris Bucchere fatally plowed into 71-year-old Sutchi Hui. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gascon said the family of Sutchi Hui was in agreement with the deal. \"I think that the family, certainly the son himself, has made it very clear that he did not believe that sending Mr. Bucchere to prison would actually do anything for the community,\" he said. \"He believed that actually what is happening today is the best outcome for the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bucchere originally \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/21/castro-bicyclist-pleads-not-guilty-in-pedestrian-death/\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded not guilty\u003c/a> to vehicular manslaughter last June. In March he was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/07/san-francisco-bicyclist-must-be-tried-for-manslaughter/\" target=\"_blank\">ordered to stand trial\u003c/a>. According to the Chron, \"The felony case had no known precedent -- at least in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bucchere certainly didn't do himself any favors when he posted his account of the crash -- before knowing that Hui had died -- on the Mission Cycling Club of San Francisco's Google group. The post began like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wrecked on the way home today from the biweekly Headlands Raid today. Short story: I'm fine. The pedestrian I clobbered? Not so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there was this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In closing, I want to dedicate this story to my late helmet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->That comment in particular caught Gascon's attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His helmet was more important than a human being,\" Gascon told \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/03/15/google-glass-will-be-incredible-for-the-courtroom/#abovethelaw\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes' Kashmir Hill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Bucchere's post, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/main/san-francisco-bicycle-coalition-statement-on-street-safety/\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> that said it was \"deeply troubled by the just-released online account of the incident.\" (You can \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/23/san-francisco-cyclist-pedestrian-death/#full\" target=\"_blank\">read more from Bucchere's post here\u003c/a>; the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/04/05/was-cyclist-who-killed-pedestrian-reckless?page=3\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> published it soon after the accident.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may recall that this was one of several bicyclist-pedestrian accidents last year, and that caused a bit of a stir. The death in San Francisco was the second area fatality in a year. As Forbes' Hill wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As in many urban environments, there is strife between the different classes of commuters in this city. Bucchere epitomized for many the reckless biker who takes liberties with the laws of the road — annoying drivers — and does not take seriously the damage that can be done on two wheels to those on two legs — annoying pedestrians, and in this case, mortally injuring one.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED's Forum responded to the issue with a show about bicycle safety, which featured this \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201204090900\" target=\"_blank\">lively online debate\u003c/a> about bicycle-pedestrian encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/?safety\" target=\"_blank\">SF Bicycle Coalition: Street Safety and Education\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Also coming under criticism at the time was \u003ca href=\"http://www.strava.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Strava\u003c/a>, a social fitness website that Bucchere was using to track his time when he plowed into Hui. The Chronicle's C.W. Nevius took the site to task for encouraging reckless bicycling in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Strava-s-KOM-awards-blamed-for-reckless-bicycling-3657025.php\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again from Forbes' Hill: \"District Attorney George Gascon told me the Strava data was part of the reason the city had decided to bring such severe charges against Bucchere. 'It implies he was trying to compete with himself.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of William Flint \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/06/20/a-quantified-self-fatality-family-says-cyclists-death-is-fault-of-ride-tracking-company-strava/\" target=\"_blank\">sued Strava\u003c/a> last year after Flint died following a bike bike while trying to win the site's \"King of the Mountain\" title for a particular route in Berkeley. That suit was later dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high-profile nature of this case, Elizabeth Stampe, executive director of Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian advocacy group, told us Tuesday she considers cars to be a far greater pedestrian menace than bikes. She said she was satisfied with the penalty against Bucchere in so far as it might herald more prosecutions against reckless automobile drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Walk San Francisco thinks it's important that there be a penalty for endangering or killing other people on the streets,\" Stampe said, \"and in that sense the day's action here sets an important precedent for the three people a day who get hit by cars in San Francisco, which is really far more common than this unusual bicyclist case. We hope this will set a precedent for the many people who are killed by drivers on our streets every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center For Investigative Reporting reported in April that \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area drivers who kill pedestrians rarely face serious consqeuences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Full Bucchere post after the accident:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"full\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I wrecked on the way home today from the bi-weekly Headlands Raid today. Short story: I'm fine. The pedestrian I clobbered? Not so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 8 am I was descending Divisidero Street southbound and about to cross Market Street. The light turned yellow as I was approaching the intersection, but I was already way too committed to stop. The light turned red as I was cruising through the middle of the intersection and then, almost instantly, the southern crosswalk on Market and Castro filled up with people coming from both directions. The intersection very long and the width of Castro Street at that point is very short, so, in a nutshell, blammo...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quote/unquote 'scene of the crime' was that intersection right by the landmark Castro Theatre – it leads from a really busy MUNI station to that little plaza where The Naked Guy always hangs out. It was commuter hour and it was crowded as all getup. I couldn't see a line through the crowd and I couldn't stop, so I laid it down and just plowed through the crowded crosswalk in the least-populated place I could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't remember the next five minutes but when I came to, I was in a neck brace being loaded into an ambulance. I remember seeing a RIVER of blood on the asphalt, but it wasn't mine. Apparently I hit a 71-year old male pedestrian and he ended up in the ICU with pretty serious head injuries. I really hope he ends up OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They asked me a bunch of stupid easy questions that I couldn't answer, so they kept me for a few hours for observation, gave me a tetanus shot and sent me on my way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, other than a stiff neck, a sore jaw/TMJ, a few bruises and some raspberries, I'm totally fine. I got discharged from the hospital during the lunch hour. The guy I hit was not as fortunate. I really hope he makes it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cops took my bike. Hopefully they'll give it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In closing, I want to dedicate this story to my late helmet. She died in heroic fashion today as my head slammed into the tarmac. Like the Secret Service would do for a president, she took some serious pavement today, cracking through-and-through in five places and getting completely mauled by the ragged asphalt. May she die knowing that because she committed the ultimate sacrifice, her rider can live on and ride on. Can I get an amen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moral of this little story is: WYFH\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced Tuesday a plea deal with Chris Bucchere, the Marin County bicyclist who notoriously ran over and killed 71-year-old Sutchi Hui at Market and Castro streets in March, 2012. Bucchere agreed to a charge of felony vehicular manslaughter, but will avoid jail time with a sentence of three years probation and 1,000 hours of community service. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Cyclist-pleads-guilty-in-Castro-crosswalk-death-4680814.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> is reporting that Bucchere could potentially have the conviction reduced to a misdemeanor after six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104438\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/castromarket.mpg_.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-104438\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/castromarket.mpg_-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"The intersection at Castro and Market streets, where bicyclist Chris Bucchere fatally plowed into 71-year-old Sutchi Huiran.\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intersection at Castro and Market streets, where bicyclist Chris Bucchere fatally plowed into 71-year-old Sutchi Hui. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gascon said the family of Sutchi Hui was in agreement with the deal. \"I think that the family, certainly the son himself, has made it very clear that he did not believe that sending Mr. Bucchere to prison would actually do anything for the community,\" he said. \"He believed that actually what is happening today is the best outcome for the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bucchere originally \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/21/castro-bicyclist-pleads-not-guilty-in-pedestrian-death/\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded not guilty\u003c/a> to vehicular manslaughter last June. In March he was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/07/san-francisco-bicyclist-must-be-tried-for-manslaughter/\" target=\"_blank\">ordered to stand trial\u003c/a>. According to the Chron, \"The felony case had no known precedent -- at least in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bucchere certainly didn't do himself any favors when he posted his account of the crash -- before knowing that Hui had died -- on the Mission Cycling Club of San Francisco's Google group. The post began like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wrecked on the way home today from the biweekly Headlands Raid today. Short story: I'm fine. The pedestrian I clobbered? Not so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The death in San Francisco was the second area fatality in a year. As Forbes' Hill wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As in many urban environments, there is strife between the different classes of commuters in this city. Bucchere epitomized for many the reckless biker who takes liberties with the laws of the road — annoying drivers — and does not take seriously the damage that can be done on two wheels to those on two legs — annoying pedestrians, and in this case, mortally injuring one.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED's Forum responded to the issue with a show about bicycle safety, which featured this \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201204090900\" target=\"_blank\">lively online debate\u003c/a> about bicycle-pedestrian encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/?safety\" target=\"_blank\">SF Bicycle Coalition: Street Safety and Education\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Also coming under criticism at the time was \u003ca href=\"http://www.strava.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Strava\u003c/a>, a social fitness website that Bucchere was using to track his time when he plowed into Hui. The Chronicle's C.W. Nevius took the site to task for encouraging reckless bicycling in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Strava-s-KOM-awards-blamed-for-reckless-bicycling-3657025.php\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again from Forbes' Hill: \"District Attorney George Gascon told me the Strava data was part of the reason the city had decided to bring such severe charges against Bucchere. 'It implies he was trying to compete with himself.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of William Flint \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/06/20/a-quantified-self-fatality-family-says-cyclists-death-is-fault-of-ride-tracking-company-strava/\" target=\"_blank\">sued Strava\u003c/a> last year after Flint died following a bike bike while trying to win the site's \"King of the Mountain\" title for a particular route in Berkeley. That suit was later dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high-profile nature of this case, Elizabeth Stampe, executive director of Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian advocacy group, told us Tuesday she considers cars to be a far greater pedestrian menace than bikes. She said she was satisfied with the penalty against Bucchere in so far as it might herald more prosecutions against reckless automobile drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Walk San Francisco thinks it's important that there be a penalty for endangering or killing other people on the streets,\" Stampe said, \"and in that sense the day's action here sets an important precedent for the three people a day who get hit by cars in San Francisco, which is really far more common than this unusual bicyclist case. We hope this will set a precedent for the many people who are killed by drivers on our streets every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center For Investigative Reporting reported in April that \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area drivers who kill pedestrians rarely face serious consqeuences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Full Bucchere post after the accident:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"full\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I wrecked on the way home today from the bi-weekly Headlands Raid today. Short story: I'm fine. The pedestrian I clobbered? Not so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 8 am I was descending Divisidero Street southbound and about to cross Market Street. The light turned yellow as I was approaching the intersection, but I was already way too committed to stop. The light turned red as I was cruising through the middle of the intersection and then, almost instantly, the southern crosswalk on Market and Castro filled up with people coming from both directions. The intersection very long and the width of Castro Street at that point is very short, so, in a nutshell, blammo...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quote/unquote 'scene of the crime' was that intersection right by the landmark Castro Theatre – it leads from a really busy MUNI station to that little plaza where The Naked Guy always hangs out. It was commuter hour and it was crowded as all getup. I couldn't see a line through the crowd and I couldn't stop, so I laid it down and just plowed through the crowded crosswalk in the least-populated place I could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't remember the next five minutes but when I came to, I was in a neck brace being loaded into an ambulance. I remember seeing a RIVER of blood on the asphalt, but it wasn't mine. 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This is so even if safety could have been achieved by retreating.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in California, not only could you stay and fight, you can even chase your attacker if it will neutralize the threat to your life.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3) California's stand-your-ground defense as part of the justifiable homicide rules has several conditions. Aggressors are not eligible for this -- you must be defending, not striking first. You, as a reasonable person, would have to believe the danger is imminent and not a threat at some time in the future. Also, you had to have believed that deadly force was necessary, and you had to have used just enough force to defend yourself. However, a defendant does not have to be correct about having actually been in danger. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60544\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/141930997.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60544 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/141930997-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"SANFORD, FL - MARCH 26: Trayvon Martin supporters march through downtown before the start of a town hall meeting about Martin’s death on March 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) \" width=\"300\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SANFORD, Fla. — Trayvon Martin supporters march through downtown before the start of a town hall meeting regarding Martin’s death on March 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protests over the George Zimmerman verdict continue — another was \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23705334/second-san-jose-protest-rally-and-march-from\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held in downtown San Jose\u003c/a> on Sunday. On Friday, President Obama helped keep the the story in the news with a statement on the case that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/07/19/203706929/obama-explains-black-america-to-white-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke directly to his experience\u003c/a> as an African American. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MHBdZWbncXI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch that video here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, on KQED Radio’s Forum show, Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris, active in many high-profile Bay Area cases; and former San Francisco prosecutor Jim Hammer answered questions about the case. Taken from that conversation …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether the U.S. Department of Justice will take up the prosecution of George Zimmerman on civil rights charges\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Burris said he had sent about 10 cases over the course of his career to the Department of Justice for prosecution, including the Oscar Grant shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest with you, they always open an investigation,” Burris said. “But they never complete the investigation. So I don’t think it’s likely.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said that the NAACP and Al Sharpton advocating for federal involvement might put pressure on the DOJ, but given the facts of the case, prosecution was unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because [Zimmerman’s] not a police officer, then it’s a question of if it’s a hate crime, and in order for that to be a hate crime, you have to have animus that demonstrates that this was done as a consequence of hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Initially, there was an issue about whether or not he’d made some kind of racially derogatory comment, and that caused the Justice Department to be concerned. But once that wasn’t there, then it seems to me that you don’t have the kind of animus that you need. Plus, it has to be a specific intent crime. So you almost have a higher standard than we have here, in beyond a reasonable doubt. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said that in a federal criminal civil rights investigation, Zimmerman could still invoke his Fifth Amendment rights and would not be forced to take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about a civil case by the family?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Martin’s family could file a civil case, suing Zimmerman for money damages. In this kind of lawsuit, the burden of proof is much less strenuous; the family could win if only a preponderance of the evidence is judged to be on their side. Zimmerman could also be required to give a deposition and take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the message from the verdict\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A caller from Oakland expressed concern about the ultimate message that the verdict sent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my opinion, because what has happened, you have families now that are going to be living in fear,” the caller said. “[We have] a disabled son that we’re trying to teach independence to and he’ll be 12. And my daughter says to me, ‘I know you were thinking about allowing him to ride the bus home after school, and I don’t think you can do that anymore because it’s a possibility that he could leave home and never ever come back because he can be accosted by anyone and shot and killed.’ So the Florida courts have created a climate of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Hammer said he shared the caller’s distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcome of this is that George Zimmerman walks out, gets his gun back — there’s no reason, he hasn’t committed a crime — and could get in his van and patrol neighborhoods again. Its scary, its outrageous,” Hammer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammer said he taught at a black high school in Watts, and that he “hung out for a year with Trayvon Martins, you know, 17-year-old African-American kids, the most wonderful kids. But when they hit that street, they’re seen by many people as suspects and criminals, and all the rest of it. Over half of them went to college, but people don’t see them that way, so it’s a horrifying thought what young black men are thinking after this verdict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Was Stand Your Ground relevant to the case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmerman’s defense did not invoke Florida’s controversial stand-your-ground Law. But, as Hammer and others have pointed out, it influenced the initial investigation of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammer said that “if you listen to [the investigator’s] testimony, [he said] ‘well in light of Florida’s law, I believe this guy, so I let him walk home that night.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(A New York Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/trayvon-martin-case-shadowed-by-police-missteps.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation on the mishandling of the investigation by local police\u003c/a> said the stand-your-ground law “became the framework within which the police and prosecutors had to work after Mr. Zimmerman claimed that Mr. Martin confronted and pounced on him.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris pointed out that the jury instructions cited stand your ground. “So therefore the jury … could then use that in terms of an application,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/news/documents/2013/07/12/Zimmerman_Final_Jury_Instructions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the jury instructions here\u003c/a>. They read, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the question of race\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking about the initial investigation, Hammer said,”If you do the race reversal for a moment …\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>if it had been an African-American man shooting a 17-year-old freckled faced white kid, would the cops have sent the African-American home and said have a good night?\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>I don’t know. My gut says probably not. I can’t say that’s false but to say race plays no role in this is a bit naive I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the legal case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said he was “dumbfounded” that the prosecution did not invoke the \u003ca href=\"http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2011/776.041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida statute\u003c/a> that invalidates a self-defense justification if the person claiming it is the aggressor. (One prosecutor, in analyzing the case, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradenton.com/2013/07/22/4619087/analysis-zimmermans-acquittal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bradenton Herald\u003c/a> that Zimmerman’s pursuit of the unarmed Martin could be considered a threatened use of force that could have defined him legally that way.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammer agreed. “What I thought was wrong here, was that you had the stand-your-ground argument there, but there should have been another instruction that said, ‘if you are the aggressor, then you cannot avail yourself of the stand-your-ground law.’ I think that might have been more helpful to the jury because then that would have given them some basis to consider that if George Zimmerman in fact touched, approached, aggravated, and started this, then he couldn’t say I got self-defense without showing that he had tried to retreat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammer said that there is too much burden on the prosecution in cases like these. “Part of the problem is the prosecution has to prove a negative …. 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The fact that he himself was standing his ground, and what \u003cem>he\u003c/em> had a right to do. And so, that’s what made it more challenging for the prosecution, because they didn’t take advantage of the opportunity that they had to make arguments, to make Trayvon Martin a more sympathetic person, and they allowed the defense to define Trayvon Martin in ways that were hurtful and easy for the jury to accept.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On six jurors versus 12\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Martin case had just six jurors. Hammer said that benefits the prosecution. “It’s certainly easier to get six to agree,” he said. “The danger of it … is when you get such a small group, the chance of not getting a diverse jury goes up exponentially. Out of 12, you have a good chance of getting an African-American or two. 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So you almost have a higher standard than we have here, in beyond a reasonable doubt. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said that in a federal criminal civil rights investigation, Zimmerman could still invoke his Fifth Amendment rights and would not be forced to take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about a civil case by the family?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Martin’s family could file a civil case, suing Zimmerman for money damages. In this kind of lawsuit, the burden of proof is much less strenuous; the family could win if only a preponderance of the evidence is judged to be on their side. 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Over half of them went to college, but people don’t see them that way, so it’s a horrifying thought what young black men are thinking after this verdict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Was Stand Your Ground relevant to the case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmerman’s defense did not invoke Florida’s controversial stand-your-ground Law. 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