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Is this a good decision by this judge?

March 26th, 2010 6 comments

Will this open the doors to other families who have had family members who were victims of illegal aliens?

Do you agree that these cities should be held responsible when they release a known illegal alien with criminal records back on the streets?

What is your opinion on this decision?
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Judge Lets Victims’ Kin Take City of S.F. to Court

San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, September 14, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO — The family of a father and two sons who were slain in San Francisco last year can go to state court with a claim that the city is to blame for failing to turn their alleged killer over to immigration authorities when he was arrested earlier as a juvenile, a federal judge has ruled.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera had asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to rule on the claim herself after dismissing the rest of the suit last month by Tony Bologna’s widow and daughter. But Illston said Friday that the remainder of the family’s case – that the city’s negligence caused the killings – belongs in Superior Court because it is based on state law and challenges San Francisco’s policies.

Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were shot to death near their home in the Excelsior district in June 2008. Edwin Ramos, 22, is charged with murdering them.

Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors describe as a member of the MS-13 gang, was arrested twice as a juvenile, for an assault in October 2003 and an attempted purse-snatching in April 2004. Juvenile courts sent him to a shelter after the first incident and to the city-run Log Cabin Ranch in the Peninsula hills after the second.

Case records don’t show whether police or juvenile courts knew that Ramos had entered the United States illegally. But under juvenile authorities’ interpretation of the city’s sanctuary policy at the time, they would not have passed that information along to federal immigration officials. Federal authorities learned of Ramos’ status later but did not take him into custody for deportation proceedings.

The family’s lawsuit says the city was responsible for the shootings because its policy allowed Ramos to go free.

Last month, Illston rejected the family’s claim that the city’s actions violated the shooting victims’ constitutional right to due process of law. She said the city might be held to account if it knew Ramos posed a specific threat to the Bolognas, but not for releasing someone who allegedly endangered a large segment of the public.

Herrera’s office urged Illston to address the negligence claim as well, arguing that it was governed by the same legal standard: a requirement that the plaintiffs show city officials knew the Bolognas were in danger and had a duty to protect them.

But Matthew Davis, the family’s lawyer, said Monday that California law makes it easier to hold government officials accountable for allegedly harboring illegal immigrants or preventing police from reporting them to federal authorities.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/14/BAC519N0BR.DTL#ixzz0R7F5VzHR

Yes. When the criminal illegal alien was released the chances were very high he would re-commit.
The city is responsible. They chose to disregard his illegal status, even though he was a criminal. They released him into the public. If they had deported him and he re-entered then I would say the city was not responsible.
If I have a vicious dog and I release it on the street and it bites someone I am responsible and can be sued.

Doesn’t it seem Bush likes to be part of someone’s death?

March 24th, 2010 4 comments

Only a few years ago he was at an interview and was chuckling about a woman’s imminent killing on death row. Bush has the govenor’s of Texas record of death row killings and now he’s taking this to the presidency.

VANCOUVER (CBC) – U.S. President George W. Bush became the first American president in 51 years to approve the execution of a soldier on Monday.

Administration officials said Bush signed the paperwork approving the military’s request to execute an army private who has been on death row since 1988, the Associated Press reported……..
SORRY bUSTER — I gave you no thumbs either down or up.
I agree. He should be put to death. But that wasn’t the question. You must, also, remember that the death penalty in most forward thing developed countries is considered barbaric. I can see their point.

The man killed 4 people and raped 8 others

He should have died years ago

He is a disgrace to the military

Is Mexico Wasting It’s Time Worrying About Hardcore Criminals That are Are On Death Row In The United States?

December 16th, 2009 1 comment

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080326/us_nm/mexico_drugs_dc

Especially when there has been a record year of killings from drug gangs in their own country??

They have got everything they wanted so far. Like children if you give everything there is no boundaries.