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Caltrans said Highway 132 has also reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1797315840121176184\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1797411230703059105\">announced on X\u003c/a>, known formerly as Twitter, that as of 6:00 p.m., evacuation orders for the Corral Fire would be downgraded to evacuation warnings. Road closures for nonresidents would continue on South Corral Hollow Road and Chrisman Road south of I-580. Cal Fire advised residents to remain vigilant and be prepared for potential changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services had previously issued an evacuation order for areas west of the California Aqueduct, south of Corral Hollow Creek, west to Alameda County and south to Stanislaus County. A temporary evacuation point was established at Larch Clover Community Center in Tracy. Caitlin Cortez evacuated from her home last night in Tracy after neighboring houses caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home and basically told me ‘you got five minutes to pack what you need and get the kids and dog and get out,'” she said. “Trees were bursting up in flames and a propane tank blew up last night out there. 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Christie and Stevan Curtiss, the parents of Travis Curtiss, evacuated their home to a local hotel on the evening of June 1 as they saw a barn at the back of the property on fire. Their home was the only house in the area to burn. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia safety program released time-lapse video footage of the start of the Corral Fire, monitoring how it spread and raged throughout the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGYfcUlmHk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Winds have died down significantly, the temperatures have dropped and our relative humidities have gone way up, which gives us the upper hand,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira. “We have that opportunity to really go, on an offensive attack on this fire, putting good control lines right on the fire’s edge, and stopping the growth from here on out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A red emergency vehicle to the left is parked in front of fire damaged trees by a road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage on Bernard Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silveira said high winds yesterday made it very difficult to put down lines around the perimeter of the fire, but weather conditions today “are definitely in our favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said “dangerously hot conditions” with highs of 103 to 108 were expected later in the week for San Joaquin Valley, an area that encompasses the city of Tracy. Wind gusts of up to 45 mph lashed the region Saturday night, according to meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker of the NWS Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred fields next to houses on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire was near the Lawrence Livermore laboratory’s Site 300 southwest of Tracy, Cal Fire said in a social media post late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Livermore is a research and development institution primarily focusing on the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Site 300, 15 miles east of the laboratory’s main installation, supports “development of explosive materials as well as hydrodynamic testing and diagnostics,” according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fire safety equipment and holding a tool walks past charred remains of vehicles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews work on a property on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire presented no threats to any laboratory facilities or operations and the fire had moved away from the site, Lawrence Livermore spokesperson Paul Rhien said in a statement to The Associated Press early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working in close partnership with Cal Fire, Alameda County Fire Dept, and other emergency services partners throughout the evening,” Rhien said. “As a precaution, we have activated our emergency operations center to monitor the situation through the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Katherine Monahan, Sara Hossaini, and Beth LaBerge contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, the blaze appeared to be growing, fueled by hot and dry conditions in California. Cal Fire updated the size of the fire to 22 square miles, up from 19.5 square miles earlier this morning. The fire is now 50 percent contained. Chief Baraka Carter said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/6/1/corral-fire/updates/d1bf71d4-c7fc-4b20-a1dc-8ea0919ce0e9\">two fire workers were injured\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke seen in the distance behind a building structure.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Interstate 580 from South Bird Road in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The westbound side of Interstate 580 was back open at 11:00 a.m. while Caltrans said eastbound I-580 remained closed. Caltrans said Highway 132 has also reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1797411230703059105\">announced on X\u003c/a>, known formerly as Twitter, that as of 6:00 p.m., evacuation orders for the Corral Fire would be downgraded to evacuation warnings. Road closures for nonresidents would continue on South Corral Hollow Road and Chrisman Road south of I-580. Cal Fire advised residents to remain vigilant and be prepared for potential changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services had previously issued an evacuation order for areas west of the California Aqueduct, south of Corral Hollow Creek, west to Alameda County and south to Stanislaus County. A temporary evacuation point was established at Larch Clover Community Center in Tracy. Caitlin Cortez evacuated from her home last night in Tracy after neighboring houses caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home and basically told me ‘you got five minutes to pack what you need and get the kids and dog and get out,'” she said. “Trees were bursting up in flames and a propane tank blew up last night out there. It was pretty dicey all night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white man and woman wearing sun glasses sit next to each other on the back of a truck near a gas station.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Curtiss and his wife Megan wait at a 76 gas station on Chrisman Road south of Tracy on June 2, 2024, for officials to allow them to see what is left of Curtiss’ parents’ home after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. Christie and Stevan Curtiss, the parents of Travis Curtiss, evacuated their home to a local hotel on the evening of June 1 as they saw a barn at the back of the property on fire. Their home was the only house in the area to burn. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia safety program released time-lapse video footage of the start of the Corral Fire, monitoring how it spread and raged throughout the night.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zKGYfcUlmHk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zKGYfcUlmHk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Winds have died down significantly, the temperatures have dropped and our relative humidities have gone way up, which gives us the upper hand,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira. “We have that opportunity to really go, on an offensive attack on this fire, putting good control lines right on the fire’s edge, and stopping the growth from here on out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A red emergency vehicle to the left is parked in front of fire damaged trees by a road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage on Bernard Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silveira said high winds yesterday made it very difficult to put down lines around the perimeter of the fire, but weather conditions today “are definitely in our favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said “dangerously hot conditions” with highs of 103 to 108 were expected later in the week for San Joaquin Valley, an area that encompasses the city of Tracy. Wind gusts of up to 45 mph lashed the region Saturday night, according to meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker of the NWS Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred fields next to houses on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire was near the Lawrence Livermore laboratory’s Site 300 southwest of Tracy, Cal Fire said in a social media post late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Livermore is a research and development institution primarily focusing on the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Site 300, 15 miles east of the laboratory’s main installation, supports “development of explosive materials as well as hydrodynamic testing and diagnostics,” according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fire safety equipment and holding a tool walks past charred remains of vehicles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews work on a property on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire presented no threats to any laboratory facilities or operations and the fire had moved away from the site, Lawrence Livermore spokesperson Paul Rhien said in a statement to The Associated Press early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working in close partnership with Cal Fire, Alameda County Fire Dept, and other emergency services partners throughout the evening,” Rhien said. “As a precaution, we have activated our emergency operations center to monitor the situation through the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Katherine Monahan, Sara Hossaini, and Beth LaBerge contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a number of primary races for district attorney in counties around the Bay Area, incumbent DAs — both liberal and more conservative — were holding on to their offices. Sitting prosecutors in Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties had strong leads over their challengers. But in San Joaquin County, the progressive DA was in a tight race with her Republican challenger. In the race for an open seat in Alameda County, a progressive and a more traditional candidate were the top two early vote-getters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorney elections in California have become increasingly heated in recent years, with progressive candidates facing off against more traditional law-and-order prosecutors, in a bid to reduce incarceration and address systemic racism and economic inequality in the criminal justice system. But some of those reformers who were elected are now facing backlash from moderate and conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most high-profile example, San Francisco’s progressive prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913102/we-are-all-more-than-our-worst-mistake-five-takeaways-from-sf-district-attorney-chesa-boudins-discussion-at-kqed\">Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> — a former public defender elected DA in 2020 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">was defeated\u003c/a> by a well-funded recall campaign that capitalized on voters’ anxiety about crime. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, opponents of progressive DA George Gascón are gathering signatures to put a recall measure on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, though, liberal Attorney General Rob Bonta, who was appointed last year by Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916206/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-easily-advances-to-november-election-to-face-republican-challenger\">was well ahead\u003c/a> of his more conservative challengers. He will face one of two closely matched Republicans in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In local district attorney races around the Bay Area and beyond, similar tensions are at play, as voters debate whether public safety is best achieved through tougher prosecutions and sentencing or an approach that favors rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters want solutions, and that can mean services and treatment as much as it can mean incarceration,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, director of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California. “It’s new for us to elect reform-minded candidates into prosecutor’s offices. I’m encouraged. Many of them won, and all of them stimulated a conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some counties, notably Alameda, the results won’t be clear until November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-preference#top-two-candidates\">“top two” primary system\u003c/a>, if one candidate wins a majority of votes in this election, the race is decided. If no one gets a majority, the two candidates with the greatest number of votes, regardless of political party, will face off in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIncumbent DA Diana Becton, a former judge first elected district attorney in 2018, held on to her seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914643/contra-costas-da-sent-a-sheriffs-deputy-to-prison-now-law-enforcement-groups-are-spending-big-to-defeat-her\">in the face of a strong challenge\u003c/a> from a fellow Democrat who’s a deputy prosecutor in her office, Mary Knox. Late Tuesday evening, Becton had 57% to Knox’s 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton is considered a progressive prosecutor and made headlines last fall when she won a conviction against former Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall in the fatal shooting of Laudemer Arboleda. Becton, along with Boudin and Gascón, was a founding member of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California, established in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd murder. Knox had the backing of many law enforcement groups across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contra Costa County voters have spoken clearly to indicate that they really want a criminal justice system that is about safety, but that is always also about fairness and equality for everyone,” said Becton. “We’ve adopted new and innovative approaches that move us beyond a singular reliance on incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTori Verber Salazar was running narrowly behind fellow Republican Ron Freitas, a prosecutor in her office. She is another incumbent DA who has staked out a progressive stance on fighting crime but was at risk of losing her seat. With votes still being counted, Freitas had 51% to Salazar’s 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Salazar quit the California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, saying it was resisting voter-backed criminal justice reform efforts aimed at reducing incarceration. She became another founding member of the progressive \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Prosecutors Alliance\u003c/a>. In his campaign, Freitas said he would work to lengthen prison sentences. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-freitas-san-joaquin-county-district-attorney-black-juror_n_62955ce9e4b0415d4d89068d\">Freitas came under scrutiny\u003c/a> over a federal judge’s finding in 2009 that he had wrongly excluded a Black man from a jury on the basis of his race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Krishna Abrams appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915246/solano-countys-race-for-district-attorney\">fend off a challenge\u003c/a> from her chief deputy, Sharon Henry, who has called for more independent oversight of law enforcement and an acknowledgement of racial bias in policing. Tuesday night Abrams had 61% to Henry’s 39%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams had strong backing from police groups. But she was widely criticized when she recused her office from pursuing charges in two fatal Vallejo police shootings, citing a lack of public trust. The state Attorney General’s office said she had abdicated responsibility. Henry, who claims support from liberals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/chief-deputy-to-challenge-krishna-abrams-as-solano-da/\">took Abrams to task\u003c/a> for the recusal and for the running of the office, which she complained is plagued by favoritism and a lack of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen won reelection without a runoff Tuesday, even though he\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/election-2022-the-race-for-santa-clara-county-district-attorney-da-jeff-rosen-sajid-khan-daniel-chung/\"> faced two challengers\u003c/a>: Sajid Khan, a deputy public defender running to Rosen’s left, and deputy DA Daniel Chung, who cast himself as a tougher prosecutor. Rosen had 59% of the vote to Chung’s 24% and Khan’s 17%, on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen, who has held the job since 2010, describes himself as a prosecutor who takes a balanced approach, citing endorsements from both police associations and civil rights groups such as the NAACP. Khan campaigned on his opposition to cash bail and gang enhancements, and his support for diversion programs and holding police accountable for misconduct. Chung opposes some progressive voter-approved reforms, including downgrading the penalties for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Santa Clara County leads the way in technology, diversity and the smart and balanced way we strive to handle criminal justice,” said Rosen. “Today’s vote once again shows there is a mandate for safety and fairness — not one at the expense of the other, but both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, voters in Alameda County are likely to choose between outspoken progressive Pamela Price, a former public defender and civil rights attorney, and veteran prosecutor Terry Wiley, who favors many progressive approaches but is perhaps the most traditional candidate. In early returns, Price and Wiley were the top two vote-getters \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/05/06/alameda-county-da-race-candidates-pimary-election-2022/\">in a four-way race\u003c/a> to succeed incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who is retiring. Price had 40% and Wiley had 31% of the vote late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, in his three decades in the DA’s office, has overseen investigations of police shootings and touts his work on restorative justice, as well as his years of experience prosecuting criminals. 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If no one gets a majority, the two candidates with the greatest number of votes, regardless of political party, will face off in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIncumbent DA Diana Becton, a former judge first elected district attorney in 2018, held on to her seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914643/contra-costas-da-sent-a-sheriffs-deputy-to-prison-now-law-enforcement-groups-are-spending-big-to-defeat-her\">in the face of a strong challenge\u003c/a> from a fellow Democrat who’s a deputy prosecutor in her office, Mary Knox. Late Tuesday evening, Becton had 57% to Knox’s 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton is considered a progressive prosecutor and made headlines last fall when she won a conviction against former Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall in the fatal shooting of Laudemer Arboleda. Becton, along with Boudin and Gascón, was a founding member of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California, established in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd murder. Knox had the backing of many law enforcement groups across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contra Costa County voters have spoken clearly to indicate that they really want a criminal justice system that is about safety, but that is always also about fairness and equality for everyone,” said Becton. “We’ve adopted new and innovative approaches that move us beyond a singular reliance on incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTori Verber Salazar was running narrowly behind fellow Republican Ron Freitas, a prosecutor in her office. She is another incumbent DA who has staked out a progressive stance on fighting crime but was at risk of losing her seat. With votes still being counted, Freitas had 51% to Salazar’s 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Salazar quit the California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, saying it was resisting voter-backed criminal justice reform efforts aimed at reducing incarceration. She became another founding member of the progressive \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Prosecutors Alliance\u003c/a>. In his campaign, Freitas said he would work to lengthen prison sentences. 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The state Attorney General’s office said she had abdicated responsibility. Henry, who claims support from liberals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/chief-deputy-to-challenge-krishna-abrams-as-solano-da/\">took Abrams to task\u003c/a> for the recusal and for the running of the office, which she complained is plagued by favoritism and a lack of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen won reelection without a runoff Tuesday, even though he\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/election-2022-the-race-for-santa-clara-county-district-attorney-da-jeff-rosen-sajid-khan-daniel-chung/\"> faced two challengers\u003c/a>: Sajid Khan, a deputy public defender running to Rosen’s left, and deputy DA Daniel Chung, who cast himself as a tougher prosecutor. 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Chung opposes some progressive voter-approved reforms, including downgrading the penalties for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Santa Clara County leads the way in technology, diversity and the smart and balanced way we strive to handle criminal justice,” said Rosen. “Today’s vote once again shows there is a mandate for safety and fairness — not one at the expense of the other, but both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, voters in Alameda County are likely to choose between outspoken progressive Pamela Price, a former public defender and civil rights attorney, and veteran prosecutor Terry Wiley, who favors many progressive approaches but is perhaps the most traditional candidate. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/about-us/about-cssa-our-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California State Sheriffs' Association\u003c/a>, currently led by Moore, opposed the measure as costly and unnecessary, and the California State Association of Counties objected to the measure's interference with local autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the legislation ultimately failed, San Joaquin County supervisors moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664465/san-joaquin-county-sheriff-stripped-of-role-in-death-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strip\u003c/a> the sheriff of his coroner duties and establish an independent medical examiner’s office. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Joaquin County sheriff-coroner, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused last year of meddling in death investigations\u003c/a>, fell short in his bid for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three-term incumbent Sheriff Steve Moore trailed his opponent \u003ca href=\"http://withrowforsheriff.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pat Withrow\u003c/a> by 17 points Wednesday, with 100 percent of precinct votes reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore conceded defeat Wednesday morning in a phone call to Withrow, congratulating him on his win even as the county registrar was still tallying 50,000 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore lost support after two forensic pathologists in the coroner's office alleged that the sheriff interfered with autopsy findings and used his political office to shield officers who killed civilians. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11633330/autopsy-doctor-quits-alleges-sheriff-interfered-in-death-probes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations\u003c/a> were first reported by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bennetomalu.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Bennet Omalu\u003c/a>, a nationally renowned forensic pathologist famous for his discovery of a concussion-related disease in football players, worked for the sheriff for a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\">Autopsy Doctor Resigns, Says Sheriff Overrode Death Findings to Protect Officers\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/coroner_1920-1180x632.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Shortly after his colleague Dr. Susan Parson quit in November, Omalu tendered his own resignation. Together the doctors submitted over 100 pages of documentation to county officials that they said showed Moore had repeatedly violated medical and ethical standards in his role as coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore denied he did anything wrong, a claim backed up by a county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663351/san-joaquin-county-should-install-independent-medical-examiner-audit-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audit\u003c/a> that concluded he broke no laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the audit also identified so many problems with the way Moore ran death investigations that supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664465/san-joaquin-county-sheriff-stripped-of-role-in-death-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted unanimously in April\u003c/a> to strip the sheriff of his coroner duties and establish an independent medical examiner to investigate deaths, independent of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"San Joaquin County Sheriff-Elect Pat Withrow (second from left) and supporters celebrate the June 5 primary results.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-1200x825.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/PatWithrow-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County Sheriff-Elect Pat Withrow (second from left) and supporters celebrate the June 5 primary results. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tracy Spencer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Withrow, who served as the deputy sheriff of San Joaquin County for nearly three decades, quit to run against Moore in 2014. 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Years later they secured $15 million to build the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocsd.org/divisions/fieldops/coroner/cctc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Coroner Training Center\u003c/a>. The doors opened in 2004, and so did the opportunity to provide hands-on courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'There's No Real Dead People in Here'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"What we did is we built just one big wide open room,\" said Assistant Chief Deputy Coroner for Orange County Bruce Lyle on a recent tour. \"There's a drain in the floor in case we needed blood or fluids -- fake fluids -- to mock it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyle, who teaches some of the courses, quickly added, \"There's no real dead people in here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contained inside the room is a set of a two-bedroom apartment built out of plywood. 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The bill would force several large counties to create a completely separate medical examiner’s office for death investigations -- with a physician in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was introduced by Sen. Richard Pan in response to a scandal in Joaquin County that erupted last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two forensic pathologists who worked for Sheriff-Coroner Steve Moore \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11633330/autopsy-doctor-quits-alleges-sheriff-interfered-in-death-probes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused him of pressuring them\u003c/a> to change their autopsy findings in deaths involving law enforcement officers. Moore denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors also faulted the inexperience among deputies responding to coroner calls for driving up costs and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648821/how-families-in-san-joaquin-county-pay-for-coroner-mistakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creating backlogs and delays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, SB 1303 would not interfere with the plans to expand coroner training at the facility in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When a young Sacramento man died in a struggle with Stockton police in 2016, San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner Steve Moore labeled the death an accident, overriding the opinion of his principal forensic pathologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, a full two years later, the discrepancy was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposed\u003c/a>, and the sheriff reclassified the death of Abelino Cordova-Cuevas as a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reversal raises questions about the integrity of death investigations conducted under Moore, especially whether the sheriff appeared to use his power to shield officers of the law from prosecution, even if they killed people. In San Joaquin County, as in the vast majority of California counties, the sheriff also serves as coroner and is responsible for investigating sudden, violent and suspicious deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not lose sight of the fact that this is an officer-involved death,” said Greg Bentley, an attorney for the Cordova-Cuevas family. “There needs to be independence, objectivity and competency in county-performed autopsies. The public would expect nothing less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the case of Cordova-Cuevas, Bentley says the sheriff betrayed that public trust by violating a subpoena for all records on the case. He says Moore’s agency withheld a key document that would have showed that the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy, Dr. Bennet Omalu, had indicated the death was a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer discovered the omission during a deposition of Omalu, who noted that the cover sheet was missing from his autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664418\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1363px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11664418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1363\" height=\"1755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet.jpg 1363w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-160x206.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-800x1030.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-1020x1313.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-932x1200.jpg 932w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-1180x1519.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-960x1236.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-240x309.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-375x483.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Cordova-Cuevas-Pending-Cause-sheet-520x670.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1363px) 100vw, 1363px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abelino Cordova-Cuevas autopsy cover sheet. \u003ccite>(San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s decision to reclassify Cordova-Cuevas’ death was made shortly after that revelation and just one day before Moore implemented a new policy that would provide greater transparency in death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, all officer-involved deaths would require a coroner’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658317/san-joaquin-sheriff-coroner-opens-some-death-investigations-to-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inquest\u003c/a> where the sheriff appoints a hearing officer or a nine-member jury of county residents to consider evidence to decide whether the deceased person died as the result of an accident, homicide, suicide or natural causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recently, questions have been raised about death investigations that were, in some way, connected to law enforcement action,” Moore wrote in a statement last month, referring to allegations made by Omalu and the county’s other forensic pathologist, Dr. Susan Parson, who both resigned in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu, renowned for his discovery of a deadly brain disease related to concussions in professional football players, served as the county’s chief forensic pathologist for a decade. In a memo documenting his reasons for resigning he wrote, “The sheriff was using his political office as the coroner to protect police officers whenever someone died while in custody or during arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deadly Traffic Stop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 7, 2016, Cordova-Cuevas was driving home from his job at a Stockton meat market, when police pulled him over for what they called “erratic driving,” according to a wrongful-death complaint filed for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the complaint, witnesses reported seeing the 28-year-old standing on the sidewalk, his hands in the air, while repeatedly telling officers, “I have no weapons.” When one of the officers triggered his taser gun, making a “crackling sound,” Cordova-Cuevas ran away. Police quickly cornered him at a nearby business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security camera \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJNSeeCkAfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">footage\u003c/a> from a nearby business obtained by Bentley, the family’s attorney, showed Cordova-Cuevas was backing up slowly with his hands in the air when police tackled him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That footage also showed Stockton officers using either a chokehold or carotid restraint on Cordova-Cuevas. Police in California are not allowed to use a chokehold that cuts off the air by compressing the windpipe, but they are allowed to use a carotid restraint where they squeeze a person’s neck to restrict blood flow to the brain, causing them to lose consciousness briefly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cordova-Cuevas became unresponsive, officers called for medics and tried to resuscitate him. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coroner Overrode Doctor’s Opinion on Homicide \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu conducted the autopsy the day after Cordova-Cuevas’ death, but did not finalize his report for nearly a year. The pathologist said it took that long to convince the Stockton Police Department to let him view footage from the officers’ body cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11648872\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Jan. 26, 2017, autopsy form filled out by Omalu states that Cordova-Cuevas died from mechanical asphyxiation, compression of the neck and blunt force trauma to the head, face, neck and trunk. Acute amphetamine toxicity is listed as a significant contributing factor. The doctor concluded that the man had died at the hands of another -- the medical definition of a homicide. On a cover sheet for the autopsy report, Omalu checked a box next to the word “homicide,” and circled it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, Omalu told KQED the sheriff called him into his office and asked him to change the manner of Cordova-Cuevas’ death to “accident,” and wanted the same change made in another 2016 officer-involved fatality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into this long back and forth,” Omalu said, “that he doesn't think it was a homicide because they didn't mean to kill him. And I said to him, ‘Sir, it doesn't matter what you and I think, we have to adhere to the standards of practice.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said he told the sheriff that a medical determination of homicide indicates that someone died at the hands of another, but it does not ascribe motive or guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months later, on May 4, 2017, the coroner's office issued a death certificate for Cordova-Cuevas, identifying the manner of his death as an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu found out after the Cordova-Cuevas family asked an outside pathologist to review the autopsy report, and that doctor called Omalu and asked why had he had designated the manner of death an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 22, 2017 memo documenting that call, Omalu wrote, “I had made it a homicide but the Sheriff had apparently overruled my opinion, without even consulting me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636262/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> found other examples in which Sheriff Moore overrode Omalu’s assessment and ruled deaths accidents instead of homicides. One is the case of Daniel Humphreys, who died in 2008 after a CHP officer tased him 31 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663351/san-joaquin-county-should-install-independent-medical-examiner-audit-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audit\u003c/a> of San Joaquin County coroner operations, released last week by RAM Consulting LLC, confirmed “several cases” in 2016 where Moore labeled an officer-involved fatality an accident, against the opinion of the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore declined to be interviewed for this story, but has repeatedly denied that he interfered with his doctors’ findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 6 Facebook post, Moore stated, “I would never try to control, influence or change the opinions of Dr. Omalu or any other physician working on a case, but I still have the responsibility of making the final determination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a legal review of the doctors’ allegations, San Joaquin County Counsel Mark Myles concluded that “the Coroner and the physician should deliberate together regarding the determination of the manner of death so that each understands the others’ perspective. There is no requirement that they agree as to the manner of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversy over Sheriff Moore’s handling of death investigations became public when Omalu and Parson resigned last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Addendum to Homicide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Cordova-Cuevas case, an addendum to the coroners’ investigative report, obtained by KQED, shows that Chief Deputy Coroner Mike Reynolds reviewed the autopsy file on Omalu’s final day on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March 23, 2018 addendum, Reynolds wrote that he conducted a follow up after learning that Omalu had reviewed a case synopsis of the incident from the Stockton police that was never shared with the coroner. Reynolds wrote that he obtained and “read the documented report, which includes detailed statements from both of the involved Stockton Police Department officers who took the decedent into custody, including the manner in which a carotid control hold was applied.” Based on his reading of the officers statements, Reynolds explained, “I reclassified the manner of death as ‘homicide,’ which is defined as ‘death at the hands of another.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But attorney Greg Bentley said it’s telling that the sheriff’s revised report made no mention of the form that Omalu had filled out two years earlier, indicating that he considered Cordova-Cuevas’ death a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They completely disregarded that,” Bentley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bentley asked San Joaquin County’s district attorney to investigate all officer-involved deaths dating back 10 years to make sure this hasn’t happened before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney launched an investigation into Moore’s office last year, which is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In a memo documenting his reasons for resigning he wrote, “The sheriff was using his political office as the coroner to protect police officers whenever someone died while in custody or during arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deadly Traffic Stop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 7, 2016, Cordova-Cuevas was driving home from his job at a Stockton meat market, when police pulled him over for what they called “erratic driving,” according to a wrongful-death complaint filed for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the complaint, witnesses reported seeing the 28-year-old standing on the sidewalk, his hands in the air, while repeatedly telling officers, “I have no weapons.” When one of the officers triggered his taser gun, making a “crackling sound,” Cordova-Cuevas ran away. Police quickly cornered him at a nearby business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security camera \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJNSeeCkAfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">footage\u003c/a> from a nearby business obtained by Bentley, the family’s attorney, showed Cordova-Cuevas was backing up slowly with his hands in the air when police tackled him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That footage also showed Stockton officers using either a chokehold or carotid restraint on Cordova-Cuevas. Police in California are not allowed to use a chokehold that cuts off the air by compressing the windpipe, but they are allowed to use a carotid restraint where they squeeze a person’s neck to restrict blood flow to the brain, causing them to lose consciousness briefly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cordova-Cuevas became unresponsive, officers called for medics and tried to resuscitate him. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coroner Overrode Doctor’s Opinion on Homicide \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu conducted the autopsy the day after Cordova-Cuevas’ death, but did not finalize his report for nearly a year. The pathologist said it took that long to convince the Stockton Police Department to let him view footage from the officers’ body cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11648872\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Jan. 26, 2017, autopsy form filled out by Omalu states that Cordova-Cuevas died from mechanical asphyxiation, compression of the neck and blunt force trauma to the head, face, neck and trunk. Acute amphetamine toxicity is listed as a significant contributing factor. The doctor concluded that the man had died at the hands of another -- the medical definition of a homicide. On a cover sheet for the autopsy report, Omalu checked a box next to the word “homicide,” and circled it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, Omalu told KQED the sheriff called him into his office and asked him to change the manner of Cordova-Cuevas’ death to “accident,” and wanted the same change made in another 2016 officer-involved fatality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into this long back and forth,” Omalu said, “that he doesn't think it was a homicide because they didn't mean to kill him. And I said to him, ‘Sir, it doesn't matter what you and I think, we have to adhere to the standards of practice.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said he told the sheriff that a medical determination of homicide indicates that someone died at the hands of another, but it does not ascribe motive or guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months later, on May 4, 2017, the coroner's office issued a death certificate for Cordova-Cuevas, identifying the manner of his death as an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu found out after the Cordova-Cuevas family asked an outside pathologist to review the autopsy report, and that doctor called Omalu and asked why had he had designated the manner of death an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 22, 2017 memo documenting that call, Omalu wrote, “I had made it a homicide but the Sheriff had apparently overruled my opinion, without even consulting me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636262/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> found other examples in which Sheriff Moore overrode Omalu’s assessment and ruled deaths accidents instead of homicides. One is the case of Daniel Humphreys, who died in 2008 after a CHP officer tased him 31 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663351/san-joaquin-county-should-install-independent-medical-examiner-audit-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audit\u003c/a> of San Joaquin County coroner operations, released last week by RAM Consulting LLC, confirmed “several cases” in 2016 where Moore labeled an officer-involved fatality an accident, against the opinion of the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore declined to be interviewed for this story, but has repeatedly denied that he interfered with his doctors’ findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 6 Facebook post, Moore stated, “I would never try to control, influence or change the opinions of Dr. Omalu or any other physician working on a case, but I still have the responsibility of making the final determination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a legal review of the doctors’ allegations, San Joaquin County Counsel Mark Myles concluded that “the Coroner and the physician should deliberate together regarding the determination of the manner of death so that each understands the others’ perspective. There is no requirement that they agree as to the manner of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversy over Sheriff Moore’s handling of death investigations became public when Omalu and Parson resigned last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Addendum to Homicide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Cordova-Cuevas case, an addendum to the coroners’ investigative report, obtained by KQED, shows that Chief Deputy Coroner Mike Reynolds reviewed the autopsy file on Omalu’s final day on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March 23, 2018 addendum, Reynolds wrote that he conducted a follow up after learning that Omalu had reviewed a case synopsis of the incident from the Stockton police that was never shared with the coroner. Reynolds wrote that he obtained and “read the documented report, which includes detailed statements from both of the involved Stockton Police Department officers who took the decedent into custody, including the manner in which a carotid control hold was applied.” Based on his reading of the officers statements, Reynolds explained, “I reclassified the manner of death as ‘homicide,’ which is defined as ‘death at the hands of another.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But attorney Greg Bentley said it’s telling that the sheriff’s revised report made no mention of the form that Omalu had filled out two years earlier, indicating that he considered Cordova-Cuevas’ death a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They completely disregarded that,” Bentley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bentley asked San Joaquin County’s district attorney to investigate all officer-involved deaths dating back 10 years to make sure this hasn’t happened before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The alleged mishandling of death investigations in San Joaquin County inflicted distress and extra costs on grieving families, wasted county resources and potentially impeded prosecutions -- according to two forensic pathologists who quit performing autopsies for the sheriff-coroner last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation into those allegations confirmed that the coroner’s office, under Sheriff Steve Moore, released the wrong bodies to families in 2016 and 2017, and once lost track of a body in the morgue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We should never, ever, compromise our standards, compromise the integrity and the credibility of the system, especially in this type of work, where people have placed their trust in you to tell them the truth.'\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County chief forensic pathologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The coroner also charged hundreds of families hundreds of dollars each to transport their loved ones to the morgue -- unnecessarily, the doctors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other instances, sheriff’s deputies -- who are also charged with coroner duties -- failed to report deaths to the forensic pathologists that the county was legally required to investigate in a timely manner. The doctors said that prevented them from performing the autopsies and tests necessary to determine how and why the people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Joaquin County, as in most California counties, the elected sheriff is also the coroner and is charged with investigating sudden, suspicious or violent deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allegations \u003c/a>of misconduct in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office surfaced last year when Dr. Bennet Omalu, the chief forensic pathologist for the county, resigned -- one week after the resignation of his colleague, Dr. Susan Parson, also a forensic pathologist. Omalu, world renowned for his discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players, accused Moore of interfering with death investigations in order to protect law enforcement officers. Both doctors said the sheriff prevented them from completing investigations by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withholding\u003c/a> evidence and investigatory \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/22/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu declined to comment on specific allegations, but in a recent interview he said: \"We should never, ever, compromise our standards, compromise the integrity and the credibility of the system, especially in this type of work, where people have placed their trust in you to tell them the truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said in December that he never interfered with the findings of his forensic pathologists, who determine the cause of death, but that he has the final say on the manner of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do that based on the totality of the circumstances, up to and including the autopsy report provided by the doctor and the investigative report done by the coroner’s investigators,” Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore refused several subsequent requests for interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/02/SanJoaquinCoronerSmall2way180209.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-800x600.jpg\" Title=\"Reporter Julie Small on How San Joaquin County Families Have Paid for Coroner Mistakes\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wrong Remains\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most shocking allegations against the coroner involve two cases where staff mixed up bodies in their care and released them to the wrong families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Carmen Rogers, whose husband, Marvin, 54, died of complications from heart disease in a Stockton motel on May 31, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers declined to be interviewed about what happened, but she told her story in a legal complaint against the sheriff. Details of the handling of Marvin Rogers’ death were also revealed in internal sheriff-coroner records obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers agreed to have her husband cremated, and the coroner’s office sent his body to Zapata Funeral Home, according to a computer entry in coroner records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family held a funeral service for Marvin with the urn of what they thought were his ashes in the room; some of his cremated remains were also placed inside 14 necklaces given to his grandchildren, according to the complaint filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29313_transform-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Necklaces that can hold cremated remains for sale in San Joaquin County mortuary. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But about a month after the funeral, Rogers received a call at work from the sheriff’s office, asking her to meet “to discuss an important matter,” according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint details how sheriff's detectives explained that the coroner’s office had mixed up her husband’s body with the body of another man with the same last name. The funeral home had cremated the other man’s body and sent Carmen Rogers his ashes. The body of her husband, Marvin, remained at the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the mistake Rogers was “distraught,” according to court records -- “she had trouble sleeping, felt anxious, and missed work because she could not concentrate” and sought psychological counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Rogers and her family held a second funeral, with the correct ashes, a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2017, they sued Sheriff Moore and the funeral home for damages, to cover the costs of the second funeral, and for emotional stress and strain. The family is currently in settlement negotiations with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Cremated?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Theresa Zavala, the daughter of the man who had been mistakenly cremated, had no idea where her father was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala, who lives outside Los Angeles, had not heard from her dad, John Rogers, for months and she filed a missing person’s report, according to her attorney. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office contacted her in July 2017, more than a year after John Rogers’ death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Reynolds phoned Zavala and said he wanted to meet with her in person to tell her what had happened to her father. According to coroner's documents obtained by KQED, he traded messages with Zavala for months before agreeing to her request to mail the police report and discuss the matter over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rogers was discovered dead on May 2, 2016, in the back parking lot of Bay’s Bistro, a shuttered Lodi restaurant, according to the coroner’s records. A homeless advocate found John lying on a pile of clothes with his head propped up against a fence. Detectives were able to identify him by a driver’s license in his pocket, but could not locate his next of kin. An autopsy and toxicology test determined the 59-year-old had died of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John’s body had been at the morgue for a month, when, on June 6, 2016, coroner staff mistakenly released his remains to Marvin Rogers’ family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"lQM4UAkvM3BZfRbjPv9Xt2teAPtxfW2V\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case notes about his Oct. 6 call with Zavala, Sgt. Reynolds recounted, “I explained how the incident occurred, our actions upon discovering it occurred, and the steps we have taken to prevent it from happen[ing] again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simran Sekhon, Zavala’s attorney, said the coroner promised to send Zavala her father’s remains — but to this day, she has not received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did not have an opportunity to have a funeral,” Sekhon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala and her two sisters filed claims against San Joaquin County in January, in preparation for a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Mix-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2017 the coroner’s office repeated the mistake -- of releasing the wrong body -- that had caused Carmen Rogers and Theresa Zavala so much distress. Deputies gave a Lodi family the body of a stranger -- a man who shared their father’s last name, but who was decades younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger man, Robert Silva, 45, died on Oct 21, 2017, at Lodi Memorial Hospital from an infection in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month later, Richard Silva, 88, died of a heart attack at his senior living facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a week before officials in the coroner’s office realized they had given the wrong body to Richard Silva’s children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 11, deputies delivered Richard’s body to the family’s chosen funeral home and reclaimed the body of Robert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 12 computer entry states, “decedent was released in error on 12/04/07... Notification of the error has been made to next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard’s son declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities determined Robert was indigent and cremated his body at the Bay Area Cremation and Funeral Service in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learning From Mistakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Shaw, with the California State \u003ca href=\"http://www.coroners.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coroners\u003c/a> Association, said these kind of mistakes are rare, “but we know it does happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, who is the supervising deputy coroner for San Bernardino County, said his department once discharged the wrong body to a family, back in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know it's the most embarrassing thing to an agency because the trust that we hope to instill in families is completely gone,” Shaw said. “I think if that happened to me, I'd think, ‘What are these boobs doing?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said San Bernardino officials purchased a new casket for the deceased person and paid all the mortuary costs. Luckily, he said, the family was forgiving and did not sue the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said he tells that story as part of a training course he teaches for coroner deputies in California -- as an example of what can go wrong and how to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County coroner adopted new procedures and has not repeated the mistake. Two autopsy assistants and a supervisor have eyes on every release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have adequate staffing.” Shaw said. “We make sure the procedures are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said the fact that the San Joaquin County coroner mixed up bodies twice indicates the problem wasn’t adequately addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean if you have two, there's something that they didn't probably put into place,” Shaw said. “It could be a multitude of issues, but it’s terribly embarrassing and wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/coroner/Pages/mec.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical examiner\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, Michelle Jorden, said her office established protocols to reduce the chance of mix-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t happened here.” said Jorden, who added that each body in her morgue is assigned a case number that’s printed on a toe tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The body will not be released until we have two people look at the toe tags and the matching paperwork,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems with adequately tracking bodies in the San Joaquin County morgue date as far back as 2013. That’s when a body went missing for more than six months. Sources close to the office said a technician discovered a badly decomposed body in the morgue. Meanwhile, the person’s relatives had been asking for their loved one for months -- and were told the body was not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years Omalu has recommended purchasing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for tracking bodies and specimens, a standard tool used by hospitals. He said the sheriff told him it was too expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one local mortuary in San Joaquin County, staff said that the coroner’s office has released the wrong body to them often enough that they now ask family members to view and identify each body before cremation or burial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore declined to answer questions about how bodies are tracked in the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Should Pay the $352 Coroner's Fee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sign of mismanagement by the sheriff-coroner -- according to Omalu and Parson -- is that coroner's deputies bring hundreds of bodies to the morgue each year “unnecessarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several memos documenting the issue, Omalu and Parson estimated that 40 percent of the bodies brought to the county morgue could have had death certificates signed by a treating physician, because the death was not unexpected or violent. That would spare families a $352 coroner’s transportation fee, and delays before they can cremate or bury a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in one weekend in June 2017, Parson wrote, four out of 11 bodies brought to the morgue could have been handled by outside physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those bodies should have never even come to the morgue,” Parson lamented in a memo. “They should have gone straight to the funeral home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annual reports from the San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner's Office show that in 2015, 351 bodies brought to the morgue -- or 32 percent -- were later referred to outside physicians to sign out. In 2016, it was 34 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total handling fees for those potentially unnecessary transports added up to more than $100,000 each year in revenue for the sheriff's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families of the people who died in San Joaquin County may not have noticed they paid a fee for coroner’s services. The cost is publicly posted on the sheriff-coroner website, but mortuary companies pay that fee directly to the sheriff and then bill the families for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic pathologists say the extra work also taxes coroner resources and staff time, including detectives who spend hours contacting doctors to get them to sign death certificates, and autopsy technicians who move and store bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This gross inefficiency impacts everybody ... and increases both tangible and intangible costs for the family and for the county,” Omalu wrote in a Sept. 10, 2017, memo.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSome Deaths Overlooked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the two forensic pathologists allege that the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office is not investigating some deaths that it should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the family of a Lodi woman who died in January fears they’ll never know the cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Espinosa described what happened to her fiance’s sister in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648892\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11648892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29307_transform-1-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Espinosa of San Joaquin County \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Espinosa said her fiance's sister, Julie Russell, had been cooking dinner around 7 p.m. on Jan. 22, 2018. Three hours later, she died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-year-old had a case of flu, and possibly pneumonia and heart problems. She also had a history of drug addiction and alcoholism, and her bedroom contained empty liquor bottles and prescription painkillers for her arthritis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell’s son found her lying on the floor and called an ambulance and then called relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police cars and an ambulance were already at the house when Espinosa arrived that Monday night to find Russell flat on her back, eyes wide open, foaming at the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinosa does research for law enforcement on cold cases, so she knew the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=27491.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criteria\u003c/a> for a coroner to take a case. She was surprised when the sheriff’s deputy said he wasn’t going to take Russell’s body to the morgue -- even though she thought Russell was an obvious coroner's case. The deputy told her to pick a funeral home instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By Friday the coroner’s office told me they were coming to get her body and that they were going to charge me $350,” Espinosa said. “I said, ‘What are you talking about? She's been at the funeral home for four days. Now you're going to go get her?’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner conducted an autopsy, but Espinosa said she was told the results won’t be available for three to four months. Espinosa said she is supporting Sheriff Moore’s opponent in an upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu and Parson documented other cases where law enforcement officers failed to notify them of people who died under questionable circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent example involves the fetus of a woman who miscarried at 32 weeks, a month after her boyfriend assaulted her. According to an Aug. 25 memo titled “Gross Negligence of Possible Fetal Homicide,” Parson wrote that the woman told a funeral home employee about the assault and the funeral home relayed the information to the detective right after the baby died on July 9, yet no case had been opened on the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked why he didn’t bring this to my or Dr. Omalu’s attention before now and he responded that he’s been busy,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parson said by the time she learned of the baby’s death several weeks later, it was far too late to be able to determine whether or not it was related to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply troubled that somewhere along the line, gross negligence occurred in the management of this case allowing a potential fetal homicide to fall through the cracks,” Parson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors say these kinds of mistakes can happen when law enforcement officers are asked to perform medical duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Patrol Deputies Receive Minimal Training on Death Investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steve Walker, who retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012, said he did not receive enough training on death investigations in the academy for patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I got was a manual with the words ‘coroner cases’ on it,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that wasn’t enough to prepare him to determine who should go to the morgue and who could go directly to a mortuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648883\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-160x137.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1020x870.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1180x1007.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-960x819.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-240x205.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-375x320.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-520x444.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Steve Walker retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Steve Walker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you're on patrol, you're doing patrol duties,” Walker said. “You're handling criminal cases and maybe doing traffic -- could be anything from a barking dog to a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker said as a patrol deputy he would go days without handling a single coroner’s case, and then have to go to an intensive care unit where someone had died and rifle through binders of medical records full of words he did not understand just to figure out whether a physician could sign the death certificate instead of the coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is up for re-election this year, with a primary in June, and Walker is campaigning for his opponent, Pat Withrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California requires deputies to complete 80 hours of death investigation training within their first year on the job -- and 32 hours every two years after that if their primary job is conducting coroner duties. Detectives in the sheriff-coroner’s office in San Joaquin County fall under this category, but deputies like Walker, who have a variety of duties, receive some initial training, followed by just a few hours of in-service training on coroner cases each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore’s information officer, Deputy Dave Konecny, referred questions about staff training requirements to the San Joaquin County counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New System for Investigating Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county counsel and district attorney both said they are investigating the allegations made by Omalu and Parson, but two months on, neither agency has announced any findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county Board of Supervisors has commissioned an analysis of coroner operations, which will include a comparison of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/county-office/sheriff-coroner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sheriff-coroner\u003c/a> system with a medical examiner system -- in which a forensic pathologist, rather than a law enforcement official, oversees death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Board of Supervisors and residents want it,” Moore said late last year, “I would fully support separation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the coroner’s functions are taken over by a medical examiner, Moore would continue in his elected role as the county sheriff and public administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Board of Supervisors hearing, County Administrator Monica Nino said the study on the sheriff-coroner operations will not be ready until April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president of the San Joaquin Medical Society criticized “the lack of urgency” in addressing the allegations in a letter to supervisors this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stakes are high,” Dr. Grant Mellor wrote. “We are about to lose two highly respected, hardworking forensic pathologists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parson’s last day is Feb 25. Omalu’s decade-long service ends March 5. But both doctors have said they would stay on if county officials could ensure their independence.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The alleged mishandling of death investigations in San Joaquin County inflicted distress and extra costs on grieving families, wasted county resources and potentially impeded prosecutions -- according to two forensic pathologists who quit performing autopsies for the sheriff-coroner last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation into those allegations confirmed that the coroner’s office, under Sheriff Steve Moore, released the wrong bodies to families in 2016 and 2017, and once lost track of a body in the morgue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We should never, ever, compromise our standards, compromise the integrity and the credibility of the system, especially in this type of work, where people have placed their trust in you to tell them the truth.'\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County chief forensic pathologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The coroner also charged hundreds of families hundreds of dollars each to transport their loved ones to the morgue -- unnecessarily, the doctors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other instances, sheriff’s deputies -- who are also charged with coroner duties -- failed to report deaths to the forensic pathologists that the county was legally required to investigate in a timely manner. The doctors said that prevented them from performing the autopsies and tests necessary to determine how and why the people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Joaquin County, as in most California counties, the elected sheriff is also the coroner and is charged with investigating sudden, suspicious or violent deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allegations \u003c/a>of misconduct in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office surfaced last year when Dr. Bennet Omalu, the chief forensic pathologist for the county, resigned -- one week after the resignation of his colleague, Dr. Susan Parson, also a forensic pathologist. Omalu, world renowned for his discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players, accused Moore of interfering with death investigations in order to protect law enforcement officers. Both doctors said the sheriff prevented them from completing investigations by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withholding\u003c/a> evidence and investigatory \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/22/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wrong Remains\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most shocking allegations against the coroner involve two cases where staff mixed up bodies in their care and released them to the wrong families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Carmen Rogers, whose husband, Marvin, 54, died of complications from heart disease in a Stockton motel on May 31, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers declined to be interviewed about what happened, but she told her story in a legal complaint against the sheriff. Details of the handling of Marvin Rogers’ death were also revealed in internal sheriff-coroner records obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers agreed to have her husband cremated, and the coroner’s office sent his body to Zapata Funeral Home, according to a computer entry in coroner records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family held a funeral service for Marvin with the urn of what they thought were his ashes in the room; some of his cremated remains were also placed inside 14 necklaces given to his grandchildren, according to the complaint filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29313_transform-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Necklaces that can hold cremated remains for sale in San Joaquin County mortuary. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But about a month after the funeral, Rogers received a call at work from the sheriff’s office, asking her to meet “to discuss an important matter,” according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint details how sheriff's detectives explained that the coroner’s office had mixed up her husband’s body with the body of another man with the same last name. The funeral home had cremated the other man’s body and sent Carmen Rogers his ashes. The body of her husband, Marvin, remained at the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the mistake Rogers was “distraught,” according to court records -- “she had trouble sleeping, felt anxious, and missed work because she could not concentrate” and sought psychological counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Rogers and her family held a second funeral, with the correct ashes, a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2017, they sued Sheriff Moore and the funeral home for damages, to cover the costs of the second funeral, and for emotional stress and strain. The family is currently in settlement negotiations with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Cremated?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Theresa Zavala, the daughter of the man who had been mistakenly cremated, had no idea where her father was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala, who lives outside Los Angeles, had not heard from her dad, John Rogers, for months and she filed a missing person’s report, according to her attorney. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office contacted her in July 2017, more than a year after John Rogers’ death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Reynolds phoned Zavala and said he wanted to meet with her in person to tell her what had happened to her father. According to coroner's documents obtained by KQED, he traded messages with Zavala for months before agreeing to her request to mail the police report and discuss the matter over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rogers was discovered dead on May 2, 2016, in the back parking lot of Bay’s Bistro, a shuttered Lodi restaurant, according to the coroner’s records. A homeless advocate found John lying on a pile of clothes with his head propped up against a fence. Detectives were able to identify him by a driver’s license in his pocket, but could not locate his next of kin. An autopsy and toxicology test determined the 59-year-old had died of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John’s body had been at the morgue for a month, when, on June 6, 2016, coroner staff mistakenly released his remains to Marvin Rogers’ family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case notes about his Oct. 6 call with Zavala, Sgt. Reynolds recounted, “I explained how the incident occurred, our actions upon discovering it occurred, and the steps we have taken to prevent it from happen[ing] again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simran Sekhon, Zavala’s attorney, said the coroner promised to send Zavala her father’s remains — but to this day, she has not received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did not have an opportunity to have a funeral,” Sekhon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala and her two sisters filed claims against San Joaquin County in January, in preparation for a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Mix-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2017 the coroner’s office repeated the mistake -- of releasing the wrong body -- that had caused Carmen Rogers and Theresa Zavala so much distress. Deputies gave a Lodi family the body of a stranger -- a man who shared their father’s last name, but who was decades younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger man, Robert Silva, 45, died on Oct 21, 2017, at Lodi Memorial Hospital from an infection in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month later, Richard Silva, 88, died of a heart attack at his senior living facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a week before officials in the coroner’s office realized they had given the wrong body to Richard Silva’s children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 11, deputies delivered Richard’s body to the family’s chosen funeral home and reclaimed the body of Robert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 12 computer entry states, “decedent was released in error on 12/04/07... Notification of the error has been made to next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard’s son declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities determined Robert was indigent and cremated his body at the Bay Area Cremation and Funeral Service in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learning From Mistakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Shaw, with the California State \u003ca href=\"http://www.coroners.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coroners\u003c/a> Association, said these kind of mistakes are rare, “but we know it does happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, who is the supervising deputy coroner for San Bernardino County, said his department once discharged the wrong body to a family, back in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know it's the most embarrassing thing to an agency because the trust that we hope to instill in families is completely gone,” Shaw said. “I think if that happened to me, I'd think, ‘What are these boobs doing?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said San Bernardino officials purchased a new casket for the deceased person and paid all the mortuary costs. Luckily, he said, the family was forgiving and did not sue the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said he tells that story as part of a training course he teaches for coroner deputies in California -- as an example of what can go wrong and how to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County coroner adopted new procedures and has not repeated the mistake. Two autopsy assistants and a supervisor have eyes on every release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have adequate staffing.” Shaw said. “We make sure the procedures are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said the fact that the San Joaquin County coroner mixed up bodies twice indicates the problem wasn’t adequately addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean if you have two, there's something that they didn't probably put into place,” Shaw said. “It could be a multitude of issues, but it’s terribly embarrassing and wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/coroner/Pages/mec.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical examiner\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, Michelle Jorden, said her office established protocols to reduce the chance of mix-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t happened here.” said Jorden, who added that each body in her morgue is assigned a case number that’s printed on a toe tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The body will not be released until we have two people look at the toe tags and the matching paperwork,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems with adequately tracking bodies in the San Joaquin County morgue date as far back as 2013. That’s when a body went missing for more than six months. Sources close to the office said a technician discovered a badly decomposed body in the morgue. Meanwhile, the person’s relatives had been asking for their loved one for months -- and were told the body was not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years Omalu has recommended purchasing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for tracking bodies and specimens, a standard tool used by hospitals. He said the sheriff told him it was too expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one local mortuary in San Joaquin County, staff said that the coroner’s office has released the wrong body to them often enough that they now ask family members to view and identify each body before cremation or burial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore declined to answer questions about how bodies are tracked in the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Should Pay the $352 Coroner's Fee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sign of mismanagement by the sheriff-coroner -- according to Omalu and Parson -- is that coroner's deputies bring hundreds of bodies to the morgue each year “unnecessarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several memos documenting the issue, Omalu and Parson estimated that 40 percent of the bodies brought to the county morgue could have had death certificates signed by a treating physician, because the death was not unexpected or violent. That would spare families a $352 coroner’s transportation fee, and delays before they can cremate or bury a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in one weekend in June 2017, Parson wrote, four out of 11 bodies brought to the morgue could have been handled by outside physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those bodies should have never even come to the morgue,” Parson lamented in a memo. “They should have gone straight to the funeral home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annual reports from the San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner's Office show that in 2015, 351 bodies brought to the morgue -- or 32 percent -- were later referred to outside physicians to sign out. In 2016, it was 34 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total handling fees for those potentially unnecessary transports added up to more than $100,000 each year in revenue for the sheriff's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families of the people who died in San Joaquin County may not have noticed they paid a fee for coroner’s services. The cost is publicly posted on the sheriff-coroner website, but mortuary companies pay that fee directly to the sheriff and then bill the families for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic pathologists say the extra work also taxes coroner resources and staff time, including detectives who spend hours contacting doctors to get them to sign death certificates, and autopsy technicians who move and store bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This gross inefficiency impacts everybody ... and increases both tangible and intangible costs for the family and for the county,” Omalu wrote in a Sept. 10, 2017, memo.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSome Deaths Overlooked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the two forensic pathologists allege that the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office is not investigating some deaths that it should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the family of a Lodi woman who died in January fears they’ll never know the cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Espinosa described what happened to her fiance’s sister in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648892\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11648892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29307_transform-1-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Espinosa of San Joaquin County \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Espinosa said her fiance's sister, Julie Russell, had been cooking dinner around 7 p.m. on Jan. 22, 2018. Three hours later, she died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-year-old had a case of flu, and possibly pneumonia and heart problems. She also had a history of drug addiction and alcoholism, and her bedroom contained empty liquor bottles and prescription painkillers for her arthritis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell’s son found her lying on the floor and called an ambulance and then called relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police cars and an ambulance were already at the house when Espinosa arrived that Monday night to find Russell flat on her back, eyes wide open, foaming at the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinosa does research for law enforcement on cold cases, so she knew the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=27491.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criteria\u003c/a> for a coroner to take a case. She was surprised when the sheriff’s deputy said he wasn’t going to take Russell’s body to the morgue -- even though she thought Russell was an obvious coroner's case. The deputy told her to pick a funeral home instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By Friday the coroner’s office told me they were coming to get her body and that they were going to charge me $350,” Espinosa said. “I said, ‘What are you talking about? She's been at the funeral home for four days. Now you're going to go get her?’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner conducted an autopsy, but Espinosa said she was told the results won’t be available for three to four months. Espinosa said she is supporting Sheriff Moore’s opponent in an upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu and Parson documented other cases where law enforcement officers failed to notify them of people who died under questionable circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent example involves the fetus of a woman who miscarried at 32 weeks, a month after her boyfriend assaulted her. According to an Aug. 25 memo titled “Gross Negligence of Possible Fetal Homicide,” Parson wrote that the woman told a funeral home employee about the assault and the funeral home relayed the information to the detective right after the baby died on July 9, yet no case had been opened on the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked why he didn’t bring this to my or Dr. Omalu’s attention before now and he responded that he’s been busy,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parson said by the time she learned of the baby’s death several weeks later, it was far too late to be able to determine whether or not it was related to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply troubled that somewhere along the line, gross negligence occurred in the management of this case allowing a potential fetal homicide to fall through the cracks,” Parson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors say these kinds of mistakes can happen when law enforcement officers are asked to perform medical duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Patrol Deputies Receive Minimal Training on Death Investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steve Walker, who retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012, said he did not receive enough training on death investigations in the academy for patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I got was a manual with the words ‘coroner cases’ on it,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that wasn’t enough to prepare him to determine who should go to the morgue and who could go directly to a mortuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648883\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-160x137.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1020x870.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1180x1007.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-960x819.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-240x205.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-375x320.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-520x444.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Steve Walker retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Steve Walker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you're on patrol, you're doing patrol duties,” Walker said. “You're handling criminal cases and maybe doing traffic -- could be anything from a barking dog to a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker said as a patrol deputy he would go days without handling a single coroner’s case, and then have to go to an intensive care unit where someone had died and rifle through binders of medical records full of words he did not understand just to figure out whether a physician could sign the death certificate instead of the coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is up for re-election this year, with a primary in June, and Walker is campaigning for his opponent, Pat Withrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California requires deputies to complete 80 hours of death investigation training within their first year on the job -- and 32 hours every two years after that if their primary job is conducting coroner duties. Detectives in the sheriff-coroner’s office in San Joaquin County fall under this category, but deputies like Walker, who have a variety of duties, receive some initial training, followed by just a few hours of in-service training on coroner cases each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore’s information officer, Deputy Dave Konecny, referred questions about staff training requirements to the San Joaquin County counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New System for Investigating Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county counsel and district attorney both said they are investigating the allegations made by Omalu and Parson, but two months on, neither agency has announced any findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county Board of Supervisors has commissioned an analysis of coroner operations, which will include a comparison of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/county-office/sheriff-coroner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sheriff-coroner\u003c/a> system with a medical examiner system -- in which a forensic pathologist, rather than a law enforcement official, oversees death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Board of Supervisors and residents want it,” Moore said late last year, “I would fully support separation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the coroner’s functions are taken over by a medical examiner, Moore would continue in his elected role as the county sheriff and public administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Board of Supervisors hearing, County Administrator Monica Nino said the study on the sheriff-coroner operations will not be ready until April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president of the San Joaquin Medical Society criticized “the lack of urgency” in addressing the allegations in a letter to supervisors this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stakes are high,” Dr. Grant Mellor wrote. “We are about to lose two highly respected, hardworking forensic pathologists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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