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Questions for the City Attorney Candidates

Monday, March 31, 2008 | The last section, “Scott Peters, a lawyer,” describes the career of one of the candidates to the city of San Diego lawyer. Article What is not experimental, so that the issue is related that the skills and experience that we should seek voters, as we evaluate applicants for the post.

My feeling for the office, and I am currently working as a prosecutor, is that voters are better done by someone with training and experience in the fields of law.

1) Contracts: The city of San Diego occurs in a number of contracts that are signed every year of negotiations, the author or the City Attorney’s Office. The voter may not want to know what kind of training and experience, a candidate has the right transaction. How many multi-million dollar contracts, the candidate has prepared and negotiated in his career? For example, the use of hundreds of millions of dollars, in addition to contracts 1995 1997 1998 between the city and the metropolitan area and chargers and the Padres, what are the problems, candidates can identify with these agreements and why can we, as voters expect that the candidate would be better, as she had during the drafting of John Witt or Casey Gwinn?

2). Torts: millions of dollars worth of claims against the city each year. What experience have each candidate in crimes? If a candidate according to a major event prozessierte tort?

3) Criminal Law: Municipalities of more than 40000 files criminal cases each year. The criminal section of the budget is almost a third of the City Attorney’s total budget. So, given the importance of this activity, that the qualifications and experience of candidates, in the criminal law?

4). CEQA: The California Environmental Quality Act was passed there several decades, the voters of California. Its rules and regulations are returning to the city. When candidates according to prozessierte a CEQA case? If candidates have submitted comments in writing to CEQA topics that can check public opinion?

5). From the Appellate Body to Practice: The city is constantly faced with calls for legal issues. Based on one of the candidates, the Court of Appeal ever written shortly? Given that the letter is presented publicly registration, the candidates for voters to evaluate?

6) Municipal Law: What training do you have candidates in municipal elections law? What is the difference between a city and a charter General Law city in California? When candidates according to prozessierte a case in which the communal law was critical questions? Has it right letter files, which allow you to create public records and would be responsible for the audit.

7) Law Office Management: The City Attorney’s Office is one of the largest law firms in our city. What are the qualifications and experience of candidates are under consideration? Have they already have a managing partner in a law firm - a company with more than two or three lawyers?

8). Continuing Education: California mandates that lawyers for their legal skills up-to-date. Over the past five years, the number of hours of legal training has finished each of the candidates and in what areas of study?

This list does not pretend to be exhaustive attempt. One could add many other important issues such as the American Disabilities Act, the law on balance, etc. To the extent that applicants must have specific training and experience in the fields of law, especially important for the city The candidates should be invited, and to discuss.

A physician may be the best pediatrician in San Diego, but the chances are good that you want to go to some other very different with a physician training and experience, surgery on the brain.

The mission of the City of San Diego is the lawyer has not changed. The training and experience is crucial. Initial information, which for us is the role of the press.

Dem convention abuzz over race for governor

Former Gov. Jerry Brown was a cligne the eye with the Zaunpfahl Saturday at more than 1000 democracy activists, he had seen on a race for governor in 2010.

“I can not do much, but people complain today,” said the Attorney General, the delegates to the Democratic Convention of the state of San Jose. “But I hope that I will hurt at one point, for a little more than that, and perhaps help me. ”

Brown downplayed in the report according to an interview with his speech, but did not deny he is interested in a third term precedent.

“You can not read too much into the tea leaves,” he said. “But I can not say that I am not in the research.”

Brown is not the only Democrat, the first views of the governor of the race.

Lt. Gov. John Garamendi everyone, but it works announced during the year 2010, saying in an interview that he had no intention of seeking re-election.

“I did not hide my interest in the governor of the state of California,” said Garamendi, lost twice, the first campaign for the Office.

High - lost the 2006 governor of democracy in the first place, Phil Angelides, he said closely in the search for another course, and the Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom declared an audience of a Sacramento seen in recent weeks, it has itself Governor of the race. Both men were in the Convention, this weekend hobnobbing with leaders.

Head of public schools Jack O’Connell also spoke, the governor underway, while the Treasurer of State Bill Lockyer, which canceled its draft agreement to provide because of illness, still almost $ 10 million in a campaign It accounts for the 2010 campaign.

But Brown’s talk about the Convention has been a real campaign speech Stumpf, upon his return horchend Beat-blue Plymouth, he rented an apartment near the Capitol and its reputation as a different kind of governor.

“They did not call me ‘Moonbeam’ for nothing,” he said. “I worked hard to achieve.”

Brown, 70 from April 8 high of Energy gave a speech, zuschlagend GOP successors in the office of Governor and suggests that the State is a better place to live, where from 1975 to 1983, as it is in California.

Republicans complained that he did not build highways that are not its priority, Brown said, but he has more miles of highway George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson, the GOP governors who followed him.

“Even without trying, I have more than those two idiots, who voted against the government, so they could not therefore it works”, he said.

Brown spoke of refusing to live in the Governor of the villa, instead of the election of an apartment to rent and walk to work. He reminded delegates that he had “sold Reagan’s bulletproof black limousine and uses a blue Plymouth in the state park eight years, and 240000 miles.

When he was governor, there were 20000 people in state prisons, said Brown. There are now more than 170000, and “we have more crime than in the past.”

“Things went downhill because I left Sacramento,” he said. “Big time.”

The Attorney General spoke about his efforts to combat global warming and its commitment to the task of the President of the Environmental Protection Agency and to challenge in court.

“I have the reputation and 1100 lawyers for the defendants that they seek,” he says.

Brown earned a standing Ovation, if it takes place in the lobby of the Convention Center in San Jose, and even as much jubilation when it is ready.

After the speech, he was almost entschuldigend to sound schrille his address that activists of seeking strong words.

“When I work with a téléprompteur, I am more measured,” he said.

Newsom has cast its probe Tuesday prefect, as he said in a speech to the Press Club of Sacramento, that “it is premature savage” to announce a run for governor, it is thought, and is ready to convince them to run.

He left speculation that Saturday from his statement, presented to the delegates, but with the impression of a “can-do”, the mayor prepared to make difficult decisions.

Newsom spoke of working with the Board of Supervisors to offer millions for the reconstruction of housing, more than the search for money to improve the school and works in the fight against greenhouse gases.

It needs the commitment, not just the rhetoric and promises to make the necessary changes, he said.

“You could say not to do so,” he said. “We have far from the question of who is responsible, and secondly because concentrate on what to do.”

The Political Specter at Justice

There were a number of sensitive inquiries under way at the high-profile office, including an investigation of Representative Jerry Lewis, the powerful California Republican who directed hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks to favored government contractors while chairman of the appropriations committee.

Representative Lewis denied any wrongdoing as investigators tracked ties between windfall government contracts and lucrative campaign donations. One former staff specialist on earmarks crossed over to become a potent lobbyist for contractors. The inquiry appears to have lagged during the administration’s strategic reshuffling of United States attorneys.

Thomas O’Brien, the United States attorney in Los Angeles, says the 17 lawyers in the unit will be transferred to other units without diminishing the anticorruption effort. He insists the revamping of his office will allow pursuit of more corruption cases, not fewer.

Senator Dianne Feinstein isn’t buying that. The California Democrat, who has been a force in highlighting the suspected political purge of federal prosecutors, is demanding a detailed explanation from Attorney General Mukasey. She is rightly asking whether political figures at the White House or Justice Department are behind the decision to close the office. “I have serious concerns about the potential impact of this change,” the senator wrote to Mr. Mukasey. So do we.

California State Democratic Convention in San Jose - Day 2

Hello everyone! I am so excited! Today, another day, when I was able to become familiar with the fellows from my party. I was also privileged enough to get into the situation to listen to two speakers very revitalizing. Attorney General Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi two colleagues are very interesting and I would like to hear talk again. I agree with much of what you said, and their positions on many issues. I really appreciated, and it seemed everything else in the exhibition hall appreciated, as well.

The first I heard was Attorney General Jerry Brown. He talked about many subjects, but more importantly, prisons and the training system of the financing system. I was very surprised when he talked about a statistic I was not. Brown said that conditions of detention may, in California, thousands of detainees a day, but kerkert the same number of people per day, the prison is equal to Release Inventory. I have noticed that, after a bit of research, that is true. I find this a little strange.

Is this not the point out of the prison, for a better life for themselves have done so after the time?

Jerry Brown said, the reason, our systems are not in prison, because we do not provide any kind of real vocational training or retraining for a prison population, even though they are inmates. You have no support system to help find work and success as a new member of society. It is difficult for someone who has been in prison for twenty-five years, appear suddenly

Tech fraud poses threat to U.S., attorney general says in San Jose

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that rising world a plethora of products, some of Rip-offs of technology in Silicon Valley, is generating huge profits for organized crime and even terrorist groups.

Crime groups, the theft of intellectual property “as a lucrative business, and see it as a low risk, as other activities to be funded,” said Mukasey and comments on the collection organized by the San Jose and Silicon Valley in the United States Chambers of Commerce.

At the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey warned that the proliferation of fake medicines, medical equipment and fake spare parts for fake cars, aircraft and electronic devices, “a real and immediate risk to the public . ”

In one case last month, announced the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police become a ring that was distributing counterfeit currency Cisco Systems network equipment manufactured in China.

Among the buyers, according to reports, Marine Corps, Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI.

“So far we have more than 400 seizures of fake labels of equipment and retailing with an estimated value of more than $ 76 million - and the investigation is not yet complete,” said Mukasey of Cisco.

The Ministry of Justice has increased steadily “intellectual property criminal,” he said, listing 217 cases in the past year have increased by 33 percent in 2005.

In one of them, 25 were arrested Chinese nationals from China
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Department of Public Safety, the requisition of more than half a billion dollars in pirated software in the largest and China and the FBI investigation ever conducted joint.

The Department of Justice is also targeting hackers oasis “in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the cooperation of local authorities with the criminal prosecution authorities. In November, magistrates and the FBI arrested 11 Romanian Romanian citizens who are part of a gang crime, false credit cards and debit personal data, “phishing” or sending fake e-mails naive users.

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Two strangers head up fundraiser for beaten Aussie tourist

SAN DIEGO - Two foreigners have joined for money to restore an Australian tourist, with a skateboarding and struck fire.

Robert Schneider, 26, awoke from his medically induced coma earlier this week. The electrician from Adelaide, Australia, in a coma since the attack on February 27 as doctors, in a number of skin grafts and her burns and wounds.

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The police are still looking for two suspects: Frank Montoya, 46, and Damian maple, 21, both transients.

Thursday, the District Attorney’s Office filed five crimes against the couple, including bodily harm with a deadly weapon, battery and torture. In the case of a condemnation of all charges that the men with a maximum of life in prison with the possibility of being put to the test, according to a spokesman for the public prosecutor.

The Fox-TV show “America’s Most Wanted” Profile of the fall Saturday evening, hope, the public will help the police to find the men.

In support of the recovery Schneider, Saint Gregory and Carl Diegans Roseann Iovine Australian host a barbecue on April 13 from 2 to 6 hours at Bondi Kitchen & Bar, 333 Fifth Avenue, in San Diego.

The party is emceed by Sam the Cooking Guy, costs $ 8 per person.

Gregory Iovine, and who do not know, tailor or another, working after the visit of a story about the attack.

The money may also be given for those who love Robert Schneider funds Wells Fargo Bank. Checks may also be made payable to “Friends of Robert Schneider and adventure travel outdoor, c / o Robert Schneider Campaign, PO Box 60084, San Diego, CA, 92166th

California personal injury attorney advises what to do if you´re involved in one;

The number of private cars and drivers on the road is increasing daily. For those who want to see the shuttle every day, accidents on the road to joint action. They are a nuisance and that the tendency to become clogged, and create freeways general delays in road transport. However, commuters are caught in custody if they believe, accidents will not happen, and even if it unpleasant to read, there is a significant amount of information, motorists stand.

Los Angeles personal injury lawyer Michael H. Silvers offers the following suggestions for motorists who find themselves in an automobile accident.

Remember to always keep auto insurance information in your glove box and a camera for single use in case you need to use the images of damage and the scene of the accident. A small notebook is useful to remember that the important details that may have blurred over time. If you do not have these things in your car, there is another piece of equipment that is of inestimable value, that many of us forget. If you have a cell phone, you can see if you have a camera on them. Similarly, the image is blurred, if not better than anyone else.

Stay on the scene until police arrived. Please note that the names of the officers and talk to them, so you know, they have their version of what happened. Ask for a copy of the report of the incident to the police. Remember that in the case of a minor, in which you have your car suffers is a success, but there is no clear violation of a police report can not be produced, it is important that the much information as possible. Exchange names, addresses, driver’s license and insurance information with the driver of the other car. Try using the names and addresses of witnesses that good. One of the most important parts of the information is the vehicle’s license plate. If you are concerned, and the other party is under way, may be the only way to determine what you catch.

Check your policy to ensure that your reports. Make a list of questions and more information than you want to know. You can create a file in your home, and a copy in your car, your insurance sheet of messages refers to the case, the speed with which they. If you can, then look in the back of your assurance of what we call the conditions of the policy or what you have to do in the event of an accident. If you do not use these instructions, you can lose some of your rights or part of what you are, in general, a claim.

Register soon for the accident to your insurance company. While the accident may be minor, you do not want the risk of seeing prices rise. Broadly speaking, the laws of the State that you are protected, unless a higher rate of accidents in your debt. This would be a good time for citizens to remember that, if you have not found, wrongly, be partially negative driver insurance, the insurance can come to seek repayment of amounts, if shall be paid to their policyholders. In a situation like this, is the responsibility of the other driver, insurance, the board of injury, an experience of the lawyer is your number one priority.

California homeschooling case to be reheard

PDT LOS ANGELES - One State, the Court of Appeals has agreed to reconsider its decision last month, as prescribed by homeschooling parents, teachers who do not have a connection, increasing the possibility that judges, Decision will change, a violent supporters of the house education in Germany.

The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles a rehearing Tuesday at the request of a couple have learned of their eight children at home without identification.

It is not unusual for appeal and review judicial decisions, and the result is often a small revision, leaves the conclusion of the same origin. But the three-judge panel in the case mentioned homeschooling, in a reassessment of the entire Feb. 28 written invitation from the judgement of the arguments of the State and local education officials, teachers and unions.

He said there will be a new round of consultations in June.

“A glance at this case will help ensure that the fundamental rights of parents must be fully protected,” said lawyer Gary Kreep American Justice Foundation, the father of the search for missing children.

Last month’s decision if necessary, be in danger, many parents for violations of the law of the State in compulsory education. Homeschooling supporters say 166000 children of California who are at home, most of them by parents who have no connection to education.

The law has not been widely used for many years. State Schools Superintendent Jack O’Connell reacted to the decision said he preferred parental authority in the education of electors. Since coming to power in 2003, was developed on the implementation until O’Connell local school districts, and suggested that parents can be with the law through the establishment of private schools in their homes.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have condemned the decision and promised to amend the law.

In its 3-0 decision, the appellate court said the law was clear, at least since 1953, as another appellate court rejected a challenge by homeschooling parents, mandatory training of Community law. The law requires children ages 6 to 18 full-time school day, either in public or in private, or by a guardian, possession of a public authority in the identification of the child from class .

The case revealed that the Los Angeles County child social worker visited the home of Philip and Mary Long of Lynwood, in response to a complaint of the child, abuse by the father. Workers have learned that the children were by the mother of research that is not a doctrine Credential. Her husband said he objects to its children to school will be taught to the evolution and homosexuality.

A juvenile court judge has refused to two for young people aged between 7 and 9, enrolled full time at a school. He said, in California, parents have a constitutional right to educate their children at home.

The appellate court accepted juvenile delinquency, and said the judge in case of resume duty, in deciding whether the Longs had any moral justification for homeschooling, and if it’s not for you to register their children in school .

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