Johannes Mehserle

OAKLAND — The murder case against former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle will be delayed until Nov. 19, when Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson is expected to decide where to move the trial. Two Bay Area news organizations reported this week that the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts found only two counties — San Diego and Los Angeles — either willing to, or able to, host Mehserle’s trial. As first reported by the Oakland Tribune, no other county in the state can match Alameda County’s proportion of African-American residents, education level or, in many cases, wealth. According to statistics compiled by ... Read Full Story

OAKLAND — State court officials have recommended Los Angeles and San Diego counties to host the murder trial of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, several local news agencies reported. The two counties were the only choice the state Administrative Office of the Courts gave the Alameda County judge who will select where to move the trial, according to reports from KTVU, KCBS and the San Francisco Chronicle. Mehserle is facing murder charges in the shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day at the Fruitvale BART Station. Grant, 22, of Hayward, was shot in the back by Mehserle, 27, as he was ... Read Full Story

by Alec Rawls The crescent memorial to Flight 93 would have been stopped long ago if the media was willing to check and report simple facts like the Mecca-orientation of the giant crescent. The same thing happens whenever the facts of a case are not congenial to our left-wing elites. Another extreme example is now taking place in Oakland California, where inflammatory reports of police criminality in the New Year’s Day shooting of Oscar Grant are held up by the Oakland street mob as justication for last week’s murder of four police officers. Even after this massacre of Oakland police, the press still refuses ... Read Full Story

Is it really not possible to find a dozen intellectually honest people in a county of $1.5 million? That's what a judge ruled ruled Friday in ordering a case against a former transit police officer accused of killing an unarmed black passenger moved to another jurisdiction, according to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. While it's true that wide publicity has followed the seemingly inexplicable killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant on a train platform in Oakland and the civil unrest that erupted in the city's downtown in the aftermath, it cannot possibly be that enough people in California's seventh-largest county are unable to set aside ... Read Full Story

By Paul T. Rosynsky OAKLAND — The murder trial against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle will be moved to another county a judge declared Friday. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson informed attorneys late Friday afternoon that the case against Mehserle, in which he is accused of murder in the shooting of an unarmed, 22-year-old Oscar Grant III early New Year’s Day, should occur in another county because the 27-year-old cannot receive a fair trial in Alameda County. Although Mehserle’s defense attorney Michael Rains focused on what he claimed was a racial divide in the county regarding Mehserle’s guilt in the case, ... Read Full Story