Comments on: Kamala Harris as courtroom prosecutor

By: James Sisco

James Sisco — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:44:47 +0000

As far as the Democrat media is concerned, Kamala has a history that only stretches back to just after Joe Biden retired. One would think that if she had done something notable in her prosecutorial years, first chair or not, they would give us a few of the highlights. To burnish her claims of being “the Prosecutor”.
She did go after the reporter who secretly filmed the Planned Parenthood baby parts expose’. 1st amendment be damned.

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By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:38:28 +0000

An easy (relatively) solution: Alameda County is a normal sized county, but thanks to Oakland (and somewhat Berkeley) the DA there deals with a serious number of homicides.
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A quibble: Alameda County’s population is 16x that of an average county. It’s almost 4x as populous as the average metropolitan urban county.

By: Another+Mike

Another+Mike — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:24:59 +0000

An easy (relatively) solution: Alameda County is a normal sized county, but thanks to Oakland (and somewhat Berkeley) the DA there deals with a serious number of homicides. (Through the 70s-80s, and early 90s the number of homicides in Oakland alone exceeded 100.) It should be relatively simple to review the superior court files for homicides charged and check the files for the DAs (assistant or deputy) handling them. It might be easier to start with those charged that actually went to trial, a much reduced number. This should provide a raw number of cases she actually had her hands on in some way.

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:12:44 +0000

For having just some real on the job experience she sure seems to be running like she is a top tier DA. But then everything she claims to be is propped up cartature.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:01:29 +0000

I’m going to guess the ‘fifty cases’ include municipal court.
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The question was had she ever been ‘first chair’ in a superior court trial.
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There was a minor controversy ca. 2008 as to whether BO had made any contributions to the Harvard Law Review. William Dyer in discussing it offered that at the University of Texas at Austin, promotion to the senior editorial staff was limited to those who had submitted the best case notes during the academic year. Eventually, sleuths located a single case note that BO had written. (Such notes are unsigned by convention). NB, during his years on the faculty of the University of Chicago, he published nothing. That case note was his single foray into scholarly publication.
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With that in mind, I’ll hazard a guess that they will locate a case where she was first chair in superior court. But not many.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:51:10 +0000

“She’s an incredible lawyer, with great courtroom skills and a sense of justice tempered by compassion,” said Jim Collins, a veteran defense attorney. …
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Sorry, praise like this doesn’t pass the smell test. He was dating her.
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Al Giannini, a longtime homicide prosecutor in Hallinan’s office, called Harris “a highly skilled professional, hard-working trial lawyer.
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That’s more credible.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:48:01 +0000

I’ve always suspected that someone took the bar exam for her, or arrangements were made for her to pass without scrutiny.
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No good reason to believe that.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:46:55 +0000

Newspapers used to do actual reporting. A Lexis / Nexis search of the Bay Area papers should turn up something from the years running from 1990 to 2003. Also should turn up cases she tried that went up on appeal.
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This looks like a dry hole to me.
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If she did try complex cases, they went up on appeal. California has case reporters.

By: Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:13:36 +0000

I’ve always suspected that someone took the bar exam for her, or arrangements were made for her to pass without scrutiny.