Jan
29
2009
The Dumbest Defendant Ever
Gotta love this one. I got this new case on a guy who beat his girlfriend silly and then held her against her will. He was charged with kidnapping and domestic violence and stopped going to court when he realized the best he was going to get was 8 months in county jail. I started working the case by looking for his mother and his “friend”, both of whom had bailed him out. Neither address was good so I started doing drive by’s on his address. He lived in a not so very nice neighborhood near Highway 101 and Oakland Road in San Jose. His 50’s era house was surrounded by commercial and industrial buildings on a very narrow, seedy street.
