Ryan Plotz from Mitchell, Brisso and Delaney was contracted by the City of Eureka to appear in court. He no longer appears in Humboldt County Superior Court. He did not do much but at least he came prepared to court.
City Attorney Cyndi Day Wilson appears for some of the more serious cases in Humboldt County Superior Court for the City of Eureka. Compared to the DA's office "serious" cannot really be applied to the City of Eureka cases. The DA's office takes care of the serious charges, we pay the City of Eureka's lawyer to sit around and nod their head or give the street address for a stay away. Most of the city's charges are camping in public, some disruptive behavior in a store, not always serious or violent. And, they are always directed at indigent and poor.
Now we have Deputy City Attorney Candace Meyers appearing for the City. She seems to know a few people but she needs to drop her haughty attitude and be a little less over zealous. The money she is being paid to sit around comes out of the tax payer's pockets, not hers. Twice in Courtroom 2 and 4, she botched what day to file motions, dates had to be reset in cases that could have been resolved and she needs to get a little less testy with the Judges.
Throwing a temper tantrum because she had to wait for her case to be called is not the court's problem. Maybe she shouldn't be in court? Sitting around in court for hours is what all attorneys do. Her cases and time are not more important than anyone else's time. She also needs to learn the Humboldt Superior Court procedures.
While City cases may be effective for some businesses and some residential situations, I would rather have money go to the EPD and the Fire Department than two city attorneys. Most of the time, the person pleads out and the City charge is dismissed. The City Attorney scribbles a note in the file. I could do that and sit around court all day; I do it anyway but I don't get paid for it.
This brings me to the Dane Carr update. On June 4, 2015 the Deputy City Attorney put on calendar several cases for Carr and demanded he be remanded. Carr's attorney Tracy Rain filed an opposition. There was back and forth with Judge Marilyn Miles with both attorneys not filing paperwork properly. Judge Miles denied defense's request for a new trial. Judge Miles reminded Ms. Meyers that not all cases were remand cases. Judge Miles said she would have to go case by case to determine what the consequences were and that was a day Courtroom 2 had a full and complicated calendar. A court hearing was set for June 22 at 2 p.m.
I went through all of Carr's cases in the system. He won a jury trial against Grocery Outlet; he had a couple cases dismissed and there are less than 10 cases, all involving camping in public against Carr.
If we are hurting for money for public safety, why are we paying two attorneys for the City of Eureka?
Previous links:
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/01/frequent-loco-commenter-and-local.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/02/dane-carr-found-not-guilty-of.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/city-of-eureka-victorious-over-dane.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/04/juror-in-dane-carr-lawsuit-shed-light.html
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