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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Tuesday\u003c/em>: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/05/prop-8-en-banc-ruling/\">\u003cstrong>The petition for an en banc rehearing has been denied\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Monday's post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just announced there will be a filing tomorrow in Perry v. 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An en banc panel is made up of 11 judges, chosen at random from the circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cstrong>Update 3:40 p.m.\u003c/strong> The court just sent out a notice that tomorrow's filing will indeed relate to the petition for rehearing en banc.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the 9th Circuit denies the request, Prop 8 supporters will almost certainly ask the United States Supreme Court to hear the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of Prop 8, California's same-sex marriage ban, asked the 9th Circuit for the en banc review in February, after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/07/prop-8-appeals-court-decision/\">ruling by a three-judge panel upheld Judge Vaughn Walker's 2010 decision striking down the law as unconstitutional\u003c/a>. (You can read the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/Prop8_EnBanc_Petition.pdf\">petition for the en banc panel here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2-1 decision validating Walker's ruling, the court wrote: \"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Michael Daly Hawkins, appointed by Democrats, voted to uphold Walker's ruling. Judge N. Randy Smith, appointed by George W. 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The narrower ruling might make it a little less likely that the Supreme Court would take the case up, but that remains to be seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One legal analyst Shafer spoke to said the majority opinion was written with an eye toward dissuading the Supreme Court from hearing the case. \"By limiting the ruling and the reasoning to California and to Proposition 8,\" said UC Davis' Vik Amar, \"the Ninth Circuit judges at least give the Supreme Court an excuse not to step in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the filing asking for the en banc panel, Shafer talked to Hastings law professor Rory Little about the procedure for and the legal strategy behind the request. Edited transcript\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Explain the en banc process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hastings Law Professor Rory Little\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally the filing is styled as a petition for a rehearing or for a rehearing en banc. A rehearing by the original panel is not granted very often. It's possible that the original panel either determines that the petitioners have shown an obvious error, so we don't need to go en banc because we can correct it ourselves, or the panel will sometimes adjust their opinion trying to head off an en banc. They're not likely to consider granting a rehearing of their own, but you never know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a case like this, almost certainly the panel will refer it to the en banc court. It would then go to a judge who's called the en banc coordinator. That coordinator will send it out and say here's a petition for rehearing en banc – and they get a ton of these. But this one will get special attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of active judges in the circuit needs to grant an en banc hearing. That's 13 votes, which is very hard to get in a circuit that has 7,000 – 8,000 appeals filed a year. They grant maybe 15-20 en bancs a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>I think [Prop 8 proponents] are pretty disappointed with Judge Smith's dissent, which was not a ringing Scalia-like forceful \"this is wrong.\" It was more like \"we should be cautious, although there are a lot of good points here.\"\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has said more than once that the 9th circuit ought to use its en banc power to clear up problematic decisions before the cases get to us. Then there are other judges who believe that if a case is an outlier, it's the Supreme Court's job to clear it up, not the en banc court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the kind of case that's always granted en banc: a case in which different panels of the 9th Circuit have reached opposite conclusions, meaning an intra-circuit conflict. This case is not going to have any intra-circuit conflicts associated with it. The other kind of case is an inter-circuit conflict, where the opinion of the panel conflicts with opinions from other circuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prop 8 backers will assert that the panel's opinion conflicts with Supreme Court authority. The other thing they'll say is this is a matter of exceptional importance, even though it's a California case, because it's a huge state and also because parts of the panel's opinion cannot be limited to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the panel's rejecting the pro-Prop 8 rationale for the law as not having a rational basis is not restricted to California. That rational basis analysis, you would think, applies to virtually any gay rights case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are judges on the circuit who believe that if there's an inter-circuit conflict, that's not a job for the en banc court, it's a job for the Supreme Court. But the Supreme Court, frankly, believes that 9th circuit panels generate more outlier decisions, and that a number of decisions every year are obviously incorrect. So they think these cases should be handled by the circuit en banc and not by the Supreme Court in a summary reversal. Every year a large number of summary reversals by the Supreme Court are from the 9th circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s the legal strategy in asking for an en banc panel? The en banc panel is chosen at random, so it's a bit of a crapshoot, isn't it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rory Little\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy is that if they ask for en banc and it's denied, then in a sense they've exhausted all the remedies, and it makes it a slightly stronger case for Supreme Court review. Because the Supreme Court often says 'why didn't you ask for an en banc hearing?'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secondly, my guess is they believe they would do better if the right judges were put on the en banc panel. If they get \u003ca href=\"http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1803&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na\">O`Scannlain\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2981&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na\">Bybee\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=3121&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na\">Ikuta\u003c/a> my guess is they might get a stronger dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think they're pretty disappointed with Judge Smith's dissent, which was not a ringing Scalia-like forceful \"this is wrong.\" It was more like \"we should be cautious, although there are a lot of good points here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the best result for proponents: They don't get enough votes for en banc, but they get a forceful dissent from the denial of en banc from O`Scannlain and Bybee and whoever they can pick up, which they can then use as their petition to the Supreme Court. 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"content": "\u003cp>Not sure this is going to go over well in North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, I know it's not, judging by some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/california-church-plans-billboard-charlotte-offeri/nPGCk/#cmComments\">comments\u003c/a> on this \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/california-church-plans-billboard-charlotte-offeri/nPGCk/\">WSOC TV Charlotte news story\u003c/a> about a San Diego church's plan to put up a billboard in the city with a message condemning the state's recent passage of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/North_Carolina_Same-Sex_Marriage,_Amendment_1_%28May_2012%29\">Amendment One\u003c/a>. That measure, which decrees that \"marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State,\" enshrined a ban on same-sex marriage in the constitution and potentially threatens the legality of civil unions and other types of domestic partnerships between same-sex couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what the San Diego church's billboard says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Missiongathering Christian Church is sorry for the narrow-minded, judgmental, deceptive, manipulative actions of those who denied rights and equality to so many in the Name of God.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/ncarolinabillbarod.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-66658\" title=\"ncarolinabillbarod\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/ncarolinabillbarod-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"143\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This afternoon, KQED's Stephanie Martin interviewed Alex Roller, a pastor at \u003ca href=\"http://www.missiongathering.com/\">Missiongathering Church\u003c/a>, about the billboard. 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And because of the number of words on the billboard, we wanted it to be at a place that was prominent, but where people driving by would either be slowing down or could read the entire text while continuing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STEPHANIE MARTIN\u003c/strong>: And this is similar to something you put up in California a few years ago?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALEX ROLLER\u003c/strong>: Yes we posted two billboards in San Diego in response to Proposition 8 in 2008, as a way to say that some Christians don’t speak for all Christians, that there are progressive Christians who believe in the Bible and Jesus but still support marriage equality and rights for the LGBT population. The only difference in the language this time is the billboard will read \"took away the rights and equality,\" because when Prop 8 passed gay marriage had been legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STEPHANIE MARTIN\u003c/strong>: You're a California church. 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Once the photos of the billboard went viral, it hit like 37 different blog threads worldwide within about a week. And we received thousands of emails, phonecalls and postcards thanking us. We received our fair share of criticism of well, since San Diego was ground zero for Proposition 8. But the vast majority of the response was grateful and supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STEPHANIE MARTIN\u003c/strong>: Are there plans for more billboards?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALEX ROLLER\u003c/strong>: We don't know. There's a Facebook fan page where people can come and participate in dialogue and download a profile-sized version of the apology that says as a Christian I'm sorry, to join in spreading the news and message of the movement that there are likeminded people of faith and even likeminded people not of faith who want to stand in solidarity with the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know there are several other states in the next several weeks and months that are going to be voting on similar issues. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66382\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Chiefs-badge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-66382\" title=\"Chief's badge\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Chiefs-badge-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Police Department\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 9, after midnight, Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/11/BANH1NJ73K.DTL\">sent his department's public information officer to the home of a reporter\u003c/a>, with instructions that she should press him to make changes to a story he'd written that was appearing online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That incident, for which Meehan apologized, is the subject of an outside investigation ordered by the city manager. 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He also went out on the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident started when his son turned up at the Berkeley police station just across the street from Berkeley High School, where he goes, to tell his father that his iPhone had been stolen. Chief Meehan had on his own phone a tracking device which one of the detectives was able to use to track the iPhone to a certain location in Oakland. The decision was made to send 10 officers to this residential block in Oakland to look for the phone. Meehan was present when the officers were knocking on doors -- in one block in Oakland, several officers knocked on doors to try to locate the phone, which was never found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the officers involved were from the drug task force, and they opted to come in and help on the investigation. And four of the officers involved, property crime detectives, went into overtime, which cost the city about $740 dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no report filed on this. It's standard to file a report on any investigation, and the department says that was an oversight that only came to its attention when looking into the story after questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How unusual is it for Berkeley police to go into Oakland, to conduct an investigation in an area that is not under their jurisdiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: Crossing the border is fairly common and they don't necessarily always tell Oakland police they're coming in. They sometimes tell them out of courtesy and also as a matter of safety if they're chasing someone. In this case OPD wasn't alerted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Berkeleyside talked to Chief Meehan yesterday. What did he say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: He explained, in his own words, about the incident. He was very keen to stress that what had happened was not preferential treatment, even though this has been cast in the media as preferential treatment. He said that what happened when they sent out officers to try and live-track his son’s phone would be something the department would have done for anybody in the city, that it was not unusual to respond to a stolen iPhone this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/23/berkeley-police-chief-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/#comment-537000078\">\u003cstrong>Berkeleyside readers comment\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He stressed what the Berkeley Police Department had already said -- that he did not give the order for the search –- that a group of detectives were in a room with him, and one of the detective sergeants said, “let’s go find this phone.” Meehan said he went along for two reasons: first, because he had never personally taken part in tracking an iPhone using these apps that allow you to monitor the location, so he was interested to see it happening. And also because it was his personal iPhone that was being used to track his son’s iPhone. So he wanted to stay close to his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that he did not request a report because he was not the officer in charge of this particular investigation. And he did not know, until recently, that a report had not been filed – that this only came to light when the media started asking questions. BPD says it was an oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: And what would you say the chief's attitude was toward this whole story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: I would say he was fairly defiant, that he thought a storm had been created around this situation, when in fact it was a fairly straightforward, not atypical investigation, and that preferential treatment was not an issue here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How are people reacting in Berkeley to this episode?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: Well a lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/23/berkeley-police-chief-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/#comment-537000078\">Berkeleyside readers\u003c/a> think he should step down, that this is not acceptable behavior and it shows a poor sense of priorities sending officers on something like this, which is resources and time and money people don’t think should have been spent. Or people think he should at least apologize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's exacerbated by concern over the earlier incident in which Chief Meehan sent an officer to a reporter's house to ask him to change some things in an article. There are two independent agencies that have been hired by the city to look into that. One is from an agency brought in to analyze the Berkeley Police Department's media relations; the other is an investigation by a San Francisco law firm, hired by the city manager. That investigation is focusing on whether the chief broke any rules. That investigation is ongoing, and the city is not intending to make the report public, because it's considered a personnel matter. Both those investigations together will cost the city $50,000. I think that's informing a lot of the surprise and feeling about Chief Meehan right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> What was the view of Chief Meehan before these two incidents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: These incidents aside, he's proved to be a popular chief. He's done a lot of community outreach, and if you did a survey, I think you'd find a lot of people are happy with him, for reasons not the least of which is that crime rates are down since he came on board. He's also talked at meetings about wanting to have a transparent department, and about improving crime data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within the department there's a lot of dissatisfaction and grumbling about his leadership and his decision making, on a level more wide-ranging than just the two incidents. We've heard from people within the department who say they're not happy with his leadership style, what they call his self-involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having said that we should also point out that the police unions are currently renegotiating their contract right now, so one should take some of these things with a grain of salt.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Addendum\u003c/em>: From \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/23/berkeley-police-chief-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Tuesday, the BPD supplied Berkeleyside with examples of seven cases where anywhere between four and 11 police officers were assigned to track and locate iPhones or iPads. The cases were from the past three years. One took the police to San Francisco, and two resulted in arrests.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A summary of the incident was provided by the Berkeley Police Department on Tuesday. Here it is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>January 11, 2012 Incident Involving BPD Chief Michael K. Meehan Son's Stolen iPhone 052212\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On January 11, 2012, Chief Michael K. Meehan son’s iPhone was stolen at Berkeley High School. The stolen iPhone was equipped with tracking software, which was providing its general location in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Meehan showed his own phone with the in progress tracking of his son’s stolen phone to the BPD Property Crimes Detective Sergeant. Given the active signal of the stolen phone, the Detective Sergeant decided to take his team to try to locate it. As the signal was moving into the City of Oakland, the Detective Sergeant called the Drug Task Force (DTF) to ask for some additional assistance and members of that team offered to help. Chief Meehan did not order anyone to investigate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team followed the signal from Berkeley into Oakland until the signal stopped updating its position. Members of BPD attempted to contact residents at several homes in the vicinity of the last known signal of the stolen phone. The area was 55th Street and San Pablo Avenue in North Oakland. No community members in that neighborhood were able to provide any useful information and the team ended the investigation. Four detectives (One Sergeant and 3 detectives) extended their shifts for approximately two hours each and were given overtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is common for BPD officers to actively investigate an in-progress tracking signal from a stolen electronic device. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66382\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Chiefs-badge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-66382\" title=\"Chief's badge\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Chiefs-badge-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Police Department\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 9, after midnight, Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/11/BANH1NJ73K.DTL\">sent his department's public information officer to the home of a reporter\u003c/a>, with instructions that she should press him to make changes to a story he'd written that was appearing online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That incident, for which Meehan apologized, is the subject of an outside investigation ordered by the city manager. And now another matter involving the chief has some Berkeleyites shaking their heads anew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For an update, we turn to Tracey Taylor of KQED news associate Berkeleyside, which has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/23/berkeley-police-chief-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/\">following the story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Over the last couple of days, whenever I tell anyone about this story, they seem to almost be in a state of disbelief. But the chief and the department are defending themselves and don't seem to think anything is unusual here. Tell us what happened...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BERKELEYSIDE'S TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: It emerged that on Jan 11 Berkeley Police Department Chief Michael Meehan took part in an investigation that involved sending 10 officers to Oakland to find his son's iPhone. He also went out on the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident started when his son turned up at the Berkeley police station just across the street from Berkeley High School, where he goes, to tell his father that his iPhone had been stolen. Chief Meehan had on his own phone a tracking device which one of the detectives was able to use to track the iPhone to a certain location in Oakland. The decision was made to send 10 officers to this residential block in Oakland to look for the phone. Meehan was present when the officers were knocking on doors -- in one block in Oakland, several officers knocked on doors to try to locate the phone, which was never found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the officers involved were from the drug task force, and they opted to come in and help on the investigation. And four of the officers involved, property crime detectives, went into overtime, which cost the city about $740 dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no report filed on this. It's standard to file a report on any investigation, and the department says that was an oversight that only came to its attention when looking into the story after questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How unusual is it for Berkeley police to go into Oakland, to conduct an investigation in an area that is not under their jurisdiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: Crossing the border is fairly common and they don't necessarily always tell Oakland police they're coming in. They sometimes tell them out of courtesy and also as a matter of safety if they're chasing someone. In this case OPD wasn't alerted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Berkeleyside talked to Chief Meehan yesterday. What did he say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: He explained, in his own words, about the incident. He was very keen to stress that what had happened was not preferential treatment, even though this has been cast in the media as preferential treatment. He said that what happened when they sent out officers to try and live-track his son’s phone would be something the department would have done for anybody in the city, that it was not unusual to respond to a stolen iPhone this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/23/berkeley-police-chief-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/#comment-537000078\">\u003cstrong>Berkeleyside readers comment\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He stressed what the Berkeley Police Department had already said -- that he did not give the order for the search –- that a group of detectives were in a room with him, and one of the detective sergeants said, “let’s go find this phone.” Meehan said he went along for two reasons: first, because he had never personally taken part in tracking an iPhone using these apps that allow you to monitor the location, so he was interested to see it happening. And also because it was his personal iPhone that was being used to track his son’s iPhone. So he wanted to stay close to his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that he did not request a report because he was not the officer in charge of this particular investigation. And he did not know, until recently, that a report had not been filed – that this only came to light when the media started asking questions. BPD says it was an oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: And what would you say the chief's attitude was toward this whole story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: I would say he was fairly defiant, that he thought a storm had been created around this situation, when in fact it was a fairly straightforward, not atypical investigation, and that preferential treatment was not an issue here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How are people reacting in Berkeley to this episode?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: Well a lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/23/berkeley-police-chief-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/#comment-537000078\">Berkeleyside readers\u003c/a> think he should step down, that this is not acceptable behavior and it shows a poor sense of priorities sending officers on something like this, which is resources and time and money people don’t think should have been spent. Or people think he should at least apologize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's exacerbated by concern over the earlier incident in which Chief Meehan sent an officer to a reporter's house to ask him to change some things in an article. There are two independent agencies that have been hired by the city to look into that. One is from an agency brought in to analyze the Berkeley Police Department's media relations; the other is an investigation by a San Francisco law firm, hired by the city manager. That investigation is focusing on whether the chief broke any rules. That investigation is ongoing, and the city is not intending to make the report public, because it's considered a personnel matter. Both those investigations together will cost the city $50,000. I think that's informing a lot of the surprise and feeling about Chief Meehan right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> What was the view of Chief Meehan before these two incidents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRACEY TAYLOR\u003c/strong>: These incidents aside, he's proved to be a popular chief. He's done a lot of community outreach, and if you did a survey, I think you'd find a lot of people are happy with him, for reasons not the least of which is that crime rates are down since he came on board. He's also talked at meetings about wanting to have a transparent department, and about improving crime data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within the department there's a lot of dissatisfaction and grumbling about his leadership and his decision making, on a level more wide-ranging than just the two incidents. We've heard from people within the department who say they're not happy with his leadership style, what they call his self-involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having said that we should also point out that the police unions are currently renegotiating their contract right now, so one should take some of these things with a grain of salt.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Addendum\u003c/em>: From \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/23/berkeley-police-chief-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/solano-county-won-t-review-300-more-autopsies-16225\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Thomas Gill’s forensic pathology career already was scarred by numerous autopsy mistakes before he started ruling on causes of death for the Solano County sheriff-coroner in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66168\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Dr-Gill-Michael-McClure-photo-350px.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Dr-Gill-Michael-McClure-photo-350px-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dr-Gill--Michael-McClure-photo-350px\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Thomas Gill, shown in 2004. (Courtesy of Michael McClure)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gill examined 332 deaths for the county in three years. Following a series of news stories last year detailing Gill’s history of inaccurate autopsy findings, Solano County Sheriff Gary Stanton ordered an outside review of 32 of the cases. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/crime/story/defendants-murder-case-didnt-see-report/\" target=\"_blank\">results were alarming\u003c/a>: A respected forensic pathologist determined Gill’s conclusions on eight of the deaths were “unreasonable” and more than half had “critical errors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office, however, does not intend to continue checking Gill’s past autopsies, said Lt. Gary Faulkner, the chief deputy coroner. None of the other 300 cases is believed to have involved foul play or illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the course of those other autopsies, there was no evidence uncovered that led the pathologist, or anyone from our office, to believe that a crime had been committed,” Faulkner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office does not have the resources to open every post-mortem examination Gill did for Solano County, Faulkner said. “In many cases, there’s really nothing left to work with,” he said. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanton hired Dr. Bennet Omalu, chief medical examiner for the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office, to re-examine 32 of Gill’s autopsies, several of which involved a death that resulted from violent crimes. Omalu found problems in more than half of the post-mortem reports, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/291049-2008-0054-ricky-vincent-meyi-autopsy-review-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">most egregious example\u003c/a> being the 2008 death of Ricky Meyi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remains of Meyi, a 50-year-old Vallejo resident, were found burned and left in a ditch. Gill performed Meyi's autopsy and concluded that the man died of “complications of blunt force injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortem/second-chances/\">\u003cstrong>Frontline/California Watch investigation: Second chances underscore flaws in death investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Gill’s initial report did not document any blunt-force trauma. During a second exam, Gill listed blunt-force injuries on Meyi’s back, though Omalu disputed that such injuries could have killed the man. Those markings might have not been injuries at all, as blood settles after death, leaving marks that Gill might have mistaken for trauma, Omalu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven people accepted plea agreements with prison sentences related to Meyi’s death, despite the lack of evidence proving what killed him. The Solano County district attorney based much of the case on witness statements that said Meyi was beaten by a group at a party. Julie Underwood, the lead prosecutor on the case, told California Watch that she did not read Omalu's review and dismissed it as \"one person's opinion.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A joint investigation by California Watch, ProPublica and PBS Frontline last year detailed how Gill, 68, has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/postmortem\" target=\"_blank\">resurrected his career\u003c/a> in coroners’ offices across the United States over the past two decades after autopsy errors undermined criminal cases and misdiagnosed causes of death. The California State Bar called the doctor “incompetent” in a 2006 report on a botched homicide investigation in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gill was working for a private firm, Forensic Medical Group, when he performed the Solano County autopsies. The firm provides forensic pathology services to more than a dozen Northern California jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic Medical Group fired Gill in early 2011, saying it did not have enough cases to keep the doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu discovered Gill continued to struggle with identifying evidence during autopsies and interpreting test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, Christina Baxley, a 41-year-old woman, was shot to death while walking her dog. Although the cause of Baxley’s death was not in question, Gill’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/291043-2007-1033-christina-lee-baxley-autopsy-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">autopsy appears incomplete\u003c/a>, as he misidentified certain injuries and entirely overlooked a bullet hole, according to Omalu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Review of the scene and autopsy pictures reveals a vividly obvious gunshot wound in the left anterior chest, which was not described in the autopsy report,” Omalu wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gill also allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/291052-2008-0080-david-emerson-slaughter-autopsy-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">misinterpreted a toxicology report\u003c/a> in the death of David Slaughter, who was discovered unresponsive in his cell at California State Prison, Solano in January 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the autopsy report, Gill listed Slaughter’s cause of death as “morphine toxicity.” Omalu’s review of Slaughter’s blood results determined the death was caused instead by a toxic combination of amphetamines and heroin – a significant discrepancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu noted another key shortcoming in Gill’s work on Slaughter’s death: no visual evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Digital photographic documentation of autopsy findings are expected accompaniments of autopsy reports in this modern day, especially in homicidal cases and unique cases like this case involving sudden in-custody deaths,” Omalu wrote. “This is a critical flaw.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu argues that Gill repeatedly failed to meet basic standards of the profession. 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Gill performed Meyi's autopsy and concluded that the man died of “complications of blunt force injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortem/second-chances/\">\u003cstrong>Frontline/California Watch investigation: Second chances underscore flaws in death investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Gill’s initial report did not document any blunt-force trauma. During a second exam, Gill listed blunt-force injuries on Meyi’s back, though Omalu disputed that such injuries could have killed the man. Those markings might have not been injuries at all, as blood settles after death, leaving marks that Gill might have mistaken for trauma, Omalu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven people accepted plea agreements with prison sentences related to Meyi’s death, despite the lack of evidence proving what killed him. The Solano County district attorney based much of the case on witness statements that said Meyi was beaten by a group at a party. Julie Underwood, the lead prosecutor on the case, told California Watch that she did not read Omalu's review and dismissed it as \"one person's opinion.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A joint investigation by California Watch, ProPublica and PBS Frontline last year detailed how Gill, 68, has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/postmortem\" target=\"_blank\">resurrected his career\u003c/a> in coroners’ offices across the United States over the past two decades after autopsy errors undermined criminal cases and misdiagnosed causes of death. The California State Bar called the doctor “incompetent” in a 2006 report on a botched homicide investigation in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gill was working for a private firm, Forensic Medical Group, when he performed the Solano County autopsies. The firm provides forensic pathology services to more than a dozen Northern California jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic Medical Group fired Gill in early 2011, saying it did not have enough cases to keep the doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu discovered Gill continued to struggle with identifying evidence during autopsies and interpreting test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, Christina Baxley, a 41-year-old woman, was shot to death while walking her dog. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:20 a.m.\u003c/strong> KCBS has the video of Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith’s press conference announcing an arrest in the Sierra LaMar case. LaMar, a 15-year-old from Morgan Hill, went missing on March 16. Authorities now believe she was murdered by 21-year-old Antolin Garcia-Torres, also of Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/7312102-raw-video-press-conference-on-sierra-lamar-murder-pt-1/\">\u003cstrong>Part 1 of the video\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://CBSSF.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=883439;hostDomain=video.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=615;playerHeight=365;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7312102;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.SF%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\">\u003c/script> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/7312172-raw-video-press-conference-on-sierra-lamar-murder-pt-2/\">\u003cstrong>Part 2 of the video is here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said at the press conference:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Authorities believe Sierra LaMar was killed by 21-year-old Antolin Garcia-Torres, a longtime Morgan Hill resident. He was booked last night on suspicion of murder and kidnapping. Neither Sierra’s body nor a weapon has been found, and no blood has been discovered, but Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said there is enough forensic evidence to warrant a belief that LaMar was murdered by the suspect. The evidence includes the discovery of Garcia-Torres’ DNA on Sierra’s belongings, which include a bag containing what she wore the day of her disappearance and her cellphone.\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/raw-video-sierra-la-mar-suspect-antolin-garcia/vHPHb/\">Raw video of suspect at sheriff’s headquarters\u003c/a> (KTVU)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to prosecute a homicide when you have not found the victim,” Smith said, but she believes they have enough evidence to do so. “The probability of homicide is very strong in these types of cases” that have been studied by the FBI, she said. “Early in the investigation we had many suspects, right now we believe he’s the only person responsible for the kidnapping and murder [of LaMar].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding on authorities’ reasons for believing LaMar was murdered, Smith said: “Sierra was a very social girl. She had a lot of friends, she communicated with her friends all the time through social media outlets, telephoning. From the time she was missing, there was no contact with any of her friends. No reason to believe she ran away. We now have a stranger with DNA on her property. Discarded was her property she would have taken with her, including medication.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Smith revealed Garcia-Torres was under 24-hour surveillance since the discovery of the DNA evidence on March 28. Smith said authorities were hoping he would lead them to LaMar. “I believe he may have believed he was under surveillance we don’t know that for sure,” Smith said. Smith said public safety was a factor in deciding to finally make the arrest. “Even though we’d been surveilling him, surveillance is not perfect.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Smith said the suspect has been linked through forensic evidence to one of three assaults that occurred in Morgan Hill in March, 2009.\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The suspect has a prior misdemeanor conviction for interfering with an officer and a prior felony arrest for assault for which he was not prosecuted. Those encounters with the criminal justice system were what placed him in the database from which authorities were able to match his DNA with Sierra’s belongings. Garcia-Torres is not a registered sex offender. \u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Smith said the suspect’s motives are unknown, but “it’s my belief that this was purely random,” as there is no evidence that the two had any prior contact. “It’s the worst kind of a crime, a stranger abduction of a young girl.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Smith said the focus is now on continuing to search for and locate Sierra’s body.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Sierra’s parents also spoke. Her mother, Marlene LaMar said, “as a mother I still am hopeful, because her body has not been found and that gives me hope….I have a plea to the perpetrator: “Please give the information that you have to help end this nightmare. I would like you to come forward and say where she is. I’m not giving up hope, her body hasn’t been found.”\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Steve LaMar, said, “we want to thank everyone for all the support we’ve gotten. We still need your support. We still need to bring Sierra home. We still need to find her.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:50 p.m. \u003c/strong> More on the suspect from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/22/BA1P1OLN18.DTL\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Garcia-Torres attended a Morgan Hill continuation school, Central High School. He lives in a trailer park in the city with his mother, wife and 18-month-old child, neighbors said…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect’s mother, Laura Torres, arrived home from her night shift as a nurse at a convalescent home to find reporters waiting near her trailer. She said she spoke to her son Monday night and was distraught about his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Don’t worry about me, mom. I am going to be OK,’ ” Torres said. “I told my son, ‘Well, if you didn’t do it, you don’t have anything to worry about.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “He would say, “Mom, I have never seen that lady,’ ” referring to Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said her son was “always quiet, always respectful, always close to me. It is unbelievable that this is happening to him. I feel like all of this is wrong. … What parent wants to believe their son did something wrong?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Torres’ father is in jail in Santa Clara County and his brother recently died in Mexico after a life of drinking and drug abuse, Torres said. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/22/BA1P1OLN18.DTL\">Full article\u003c/a>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=8671945#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-8671945\">ABC7News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The suspect’s sister and brother in law listened to the sheriff’s morning press conference but dispute her claims. “They don’t have physical evidence – there’s no physical evidence at all,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had her DNA in the car,” said a reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not in the car actually,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia believes investigators zeroed in on her brother simply because his car was spotted in Sierra’s neighborhood. She says her whole family knew he was under surveillance and that her brother has cooperated with police. She says a guilty man would have acted differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that he would, I don’t know, go away or try to run away or something. He’s been nothing but compliant with police. He’s given them two DNA swabs,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family also doesn’t believe that Garcia-Torres committed previous assaults. One of the assaults that happened in 2009 was in the parking lot of the Safeway where he was arrested. The assault involved a stun gun. The sheriff did not say which of the assaults he was connected to. \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=8671945#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-8671945\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Last night\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nKTVU broke the story this evening: Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies arrested a suspect in the March 16 disappearance of Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar. The suspect, identified as Antolin Garcia-Torres, was arrested early Monday evening outside a Safeway store in the South Bay suburb where he worked. He was later booked into Santa Clara County Jail on charges of murder and kidnapping. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20677622/arrest-sierra-lamar-disappearance\">San Jose Mercury News reports\u003c/a> the sheriff will hold a press conference on the case at 8 a.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Merc quotes Sheriff Laurie Smith from press conference late Monday night:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>” ‘We believe we have probable cause that he committed the kidnapping and murder of Sierra LaMar,’ said Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith … .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff’s office previously announced that a red Volkswagen Jetta may be connected to the case, and according to authorities, Garcia-Torres is the owner of the car, which was seized on May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” ‘We have a lot of physical evidence’ Smith said. She said the public’s safety is the main concern of her office, and, ‘we don’t want to see anyone else hurt or any other little girls taken.’ “\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This evening’s coverage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>KTVU’s \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/raw-video-sierra-la-mar-suspect-antolin-garcia/vHPHb/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raw video\u003c/a> of suspect Garcia-Torres at Santa Clara County sheriff’s headquarters in San Jose.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>KTVU:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/suspect-taken-custody-sierra-la-mar-case/nPBX3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suspect arrested for murder and kidnapping of Sierra LaMar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Jose Mercury News:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20677622/arrest-sierra-lamar-disappearance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authorities announce arrest in Sierra LaMar disappearance\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Chronicle:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/21/BAGC1OLIUT.DTL&tsp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murder arrest made in Sierra LaMar case\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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The evidence includes the discovery of Garcia-Torres’ DNA on Sierra’s belongings, which include a bag containing what she wore the day of her disappearance and her cellphone.\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/raw-video-sierra-la-mar-suspect-antolin-garcia/vHPHb/\">Raw video of suspect at sheriff’s headquarters\u003c/a> (KTVU)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to prosecute a homicide when you have not found the victim,” Smith said, but she believes they have enough evidence to do so. “The probability of homicide is very strong in these types of cases” that have been studied by the FBI, she said. “Early in the investigation we had many suspects, right now we believe he’s the only person responsible for the kidnapping and murder [of LaMar].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding on authorities’ reasons for believing LaMar was murdered, Smith said: “Sierra was a very social girl. She had a lot of friends, she communicated with her friends all the time through social media outlets, telephoning. From the time she was missing, there was no contact with any of her friends. No reason to believe she ran away. We now have a stranger with DNA on her property. Discarded was her property she would have taken with her, including medication.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Smith revealed Garcia-Torres was under 24-hour surveillance since the discovery of the DNA evidence on March 28. Smith said authorities were hoping he would lead them to LaMar. “I believe he may have believed he was under surveillance we don’t know that for sure,” Smith said. Smith said public safety was a factor in deciding to finally make the arrest. “Even though we’d been surveilling him, surveillance is not perfect.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Smith said the suspect has been linked through forensic evidence to one of three assaults that occurred in Morgan Hill in March, 2009.\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The suspect has a prior misdemeanor conviction for interfering with an officer and a prior felony arrest for assault for which he was not prosecuted. Those encounters with the criminal justice system were what placed him in the database from which authorities were able to match his DNA with Sierra’s belongings. Garcia-Torres is not a registered sex offender. \u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Smith said the suspect’s motives are unknown, but “it’s my belief that this was purely random,” as there is no evidence that the two had any prior contact. “It’s the worst kind of a crime, a stranger abduction of a young girl.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Smith said the focus is now on continuing to search for and locate Sierra’s body.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Sierra’s parents also spoke. Her mother, Marlene LaMar said, “as a mother I still am hopeful, because her body has not been found and that gives me hope….I have a plea to the perpetrator: “Please give the information that you have to help end this nightmare. I would like you to come forward and say where she is. I’m not giving up hope, her body hasn’t been found.”\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Steve LaMar, said, “we want to thank everyone for all the support we’ve gotten. We still need your support. We still need to bring Sierra home. We still need to find her.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:50 p.m. \u003c/strong> More on the suspect from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/22/BA1P1OLN18.DTL\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Garcia-Torres attended a Morgan Hill continuation school, Central High School. He lives in a trailer park in the city with his mother, wife and 18-month-old child, neighbors said…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect’s mother, Laura Torres, arrived home from her night shift as a nurse at a convalescent home to find reporters waiting near her trailer. She said she spoke to her son Monday night and was distraught about his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Don’t worry about me, mom. 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I feel like all of this is wrong. … What parent wants to believe their son did something wrong?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Torres’ father is in jail in Santa Clara County and his brother recently died in Mexico after a life of drinking and drug abuse, Torres said. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/22/BA1P1OLN18.DTL\">Full article\u003c/a>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=8671945#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-8671945\">ABC7News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The suspect’s sister and brother in law listened to the sheriff’s morning press conference but dispute her claims. “They don’t have physical evidence – there’s no physical evidence at all,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had her DNA in the car,” said a reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not in the car actually,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia believes investigators zeroed in on her brother simply because his car was spotted in Sierra’s neighborhood. She says her whole family knew he was under surveillance and that her brother has cooperated with police. She says a guilty man would have acted differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that he would, I don’t know, go away or try to run away or something. He’s been nothing but compliant with police. He’s given them two DNA swabs,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family also doesn’t believe that Garcia-Torres committed previous assaults. One of the assaults that happened in 2009 was in the parking lot of the Safeway where he was arrested. The assault involved a stun gun. The sheriff did not say which of the assaults he was connected to. \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=8671945#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-8671945\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Last night\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nKTVU broke the story this evening: Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies arrested a suspect in the March 16 disappearance of Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar. The suspect, identified as Antolin Garcia-Torres, was arrested early Monday evening outside a Safeway store in the South Bay suburb where he worked. He was later booked into Santa Clara County Jail on charges of murder and kidnapping. 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