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johnsonp
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Initially Posted - 07/31/2009 :  14:43:50  Show Profile
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=5832004

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 07/31/2009 :  18:41:39  Show Profile
This is a couple of years old. Anybody know what became of it?
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 08/01/2009 :  07:21:34  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
I just did a search John and [url="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=6862948"]here's[/url] the latest;
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 08/01/2009 :  08:03:54  Show Profile
There is later news--the trial has begun--manslaughter charges were dropped but other charges remain against the sailboat operator. It sounds like the case is not going well for the prosecution. I would hope that the defense could take the jury out on a boat in dead darkness and go 40+ mph to see how ridiculous that is. (Clear the lake!) You can't see anything--lights or no lights--especially with lights along the shore! The <i>only</i> witness (so far) who says the lights weren't on also didn't see any sails up... He must have been looking at the wrong boat, since the sails were up when they left the dock and at the moment of the collision!

The CA AG needs to investigate that county prosecutor and his relationship to the sheriffs. I think the sheriffs have something on him that they kept in their back-pockets for just such a situation. There is practically no other explanation for his steadfastness on the charges and absolute unwillingness to consider the eye-witness accounts saying the sailboat was lit, or that the powerboat was far exceeding the state and federal regulations for "safe speed".

It smells like a rotten cod!
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 08/01/2009 :  11:05:23  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
Thanks Dave,
I guess I didn't look far enough. It's really disheartening to see such a blatant miscarriage of justice. You'd think that some hotshot attorney somewhere would want to make a name for himself by ripping this case wide open. And why isn't some judicial "watchdog" group stepping in or something??
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suttergold
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Response Posted - 08/01/2009 :  11:59:35  Show Profile
Hard to believe, or maybe not, there still exists the "good old boy" mentality in the golden state of California!
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/08/2010 :  10:30:19  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=6974814
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 06/08/2010 :  13:56:45  Show Profile
That was last year... I have to wonder what became of that sheriff who <i>should've</i> been tried for manslaughter.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 06/09/2010 :  05:08:34  Show Profile
After the lawyers got through with him, and the complete system, he probably does not have a lot to say. I wonder also, but then I've got my own problems, getting that disco ball on the top of my mast.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 06/09/2010 :  05:55:02  Show Profile
He got fired in April 2010.

[url="http://lakeconews.com/content/view/13921/919/"]Sheriff's captain involved in off-duty boat crash terminated from employment[/url]
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 06/09/2010 :  06:31:32  Show Profile
He kills one person and takes three years out of another person's life... The county prosecutor who carefully protected him from the beginning and cooked up the other charges can't think of anything, including pergury, to convict him of now... But all is well because Perdock was fired and his insurance paid $300K to Weber...

Ya, right.
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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 06/10/2010 :  11:56:29  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
OK so the case has been settled. What next? I have recently read a number of threads here, and many, many more over the past 15 or so years that I've been associated with this group, of new c25 owners who admittedly know very little about sail boating and evenless about their boat and its systems. These folks are in danger of becoming involved in a similar situation as Bismark Dinius. We need to encourage new and prospective C25 owners, in fact all boat owners, to:

1. Have their boats thoroughly inspected by a qualified marine suveyor before purchasing, or soon after by a qualified marine safety inspecter such as in the Coast Gaurd Auxiliary.

2. Encourage owners to learn the rules of the road and to ensure all Coast Guard safety requirements are met before leaving the dock. Functional lights at night is the most obvious one.

3. Encourage all boaters and passengers not to drink and operate a vessel, period.

4. Take a boating safety course and read everything they can about boating and boating safety.

As a group I think we do a pretty good job at accomplishing the above. Unfortunatly, we have to rely on our members to follow through and do the right thing for themselves and fellow boaters. Mr. Dinius dodged a big bullit because of a lot of witnesses for his defense. One of us may not be so lucky.
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