Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Tulsi Gabbard says Kamala's entire Campaign is based on a Lie [View all]Princetonian
(1,501 posts)In response to your earlier reply to me:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=230468
As DA, the buck stopped with Harris. More evidence from the SF Chronicle Debate Factcheck that backs up Tulsi Gabbard's claims:
'San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo... said Harris district attorneys office violated defendants rights by hiding damaging information about the technician and was indifferent to demands that the office account for its failings. The District Attorney failed to disclose information that clearly should have been disclosed, the judge wrote in a court order. Plus, Harris office did not have a written policy about informing defendants if there were any problems with evidence or witnesses. The scandal led to 1,000 cases being dismissed.'
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Fact-checking-the-Democratic-debate-attacks-14275081.php?psid=glXZf
Also: "The attack: Gabbard said Harris kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
The context: This is rooted in the 2011 Supreme Court case that said Californias prisons were too overcrowded. In 2014, lawyers working for the state Department of Justice told a court that if low-level offenders who are often used to fight wildfires were freed, it would severely impact fire camp participation a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought.
In 2014, Harris said she didnt know lawyers working for her had made that argument until she read published reports of it. Subsequently, she asked her staff to discontinue making that argument."
That teenage girl's testimony against Kevin Cooper was questionable. Read NYT Pulitzer Prize winning reporter's story, "Was Kevin Cooper Framed For Murder" for more details about doubts surrounding her accusation. Look at what Kristof wrote about Harris' treatment of Kevin Cooper:
"One Test Could Exonerate Him. Why Won't California Do It?
In 1983, four people were murdered in a home in Chino Hills, Calif. The sole survivor of the attack said three white intruders had committed the murders. Then a woman told the police that her boyfriend, a white convicted murderer, was probably involved, and she gave deputies his bloody coveralls. So heres what sheriffs deputies did: They threw away the bloody coveralls and arrested a young black man named Kevin Cooper. He is now awaiting execution.
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The test tube miraculously contained the blood of two or more people. This indicated that the sheriffs office may have used the test tube of Coopers blood to frame him, and then topped off the test tube with someone elses blood.
Coopers lawyers ask above all for new touch DNA testing capable of detecting microscopic residues... As state attorney general, Kamala Harris refused to allow this advanced DNA testing and showed no interest in the case (on Friday, after the online publication of this column, Senator Harris called me to say "I feel awful about this" and put out a statement saying: "As a firm believer in DNA testing..."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/17/opinion/sunday/kevin-cooper-california-death-row.html
Gabbard was right. Harris owes Kevin Cooper an apology.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden