Question: Cameron Brown retrial?
I periodically get this, or similar, types of questions about the Cameron Brown case and other high-profile and aging cases:
Brown was in court today for a pretrial, and is currently scheduled to return again March 4 for another pretrial. This is all very typical and not uncommon - especially when dealing with bigger cases that have a lot of evidence. I can't say exactly what causes delays, but I do know that the lawyers and the judge have to put aside a big chunk of time for cases like this. Currently, the prosecutor is engaged in a double-defendant Rolling Hills murder trial that is expected to take months, so I wouldn't expect Brown's retrial anytime soon.
And when the stakes are high, they want to make sure they cross every t and dot every i.
In between, if you just want an update on this or other South Bay cases, you can check out the Court Tracker at www.dailybreeze.com/courttracker, which can be reconfigured to list by name, date, etc.
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Why is the story concerning the CHP officer that murdered her husband not in the blog????? She murderes her husband and is not in jail??? Lock her up. So typical, just because she is a cop, she is not in jail. So there was some verbal and physical abuse in the relationship, she should have left. To murder someone for that, she needs to be in jail!!!!! This makes me really mad, how cops get away with murder!
Big Mo
East Side Torrance
I'm not going for the full press of "typical cop" statements that are being spread in this case, but I sure would like to know exactly why this woman wasn't at the least held in custody for the crime committed when she LEFT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME!!!
She shot him in a parking lot and drove to her relative's home, that's enough to begin holding her in a strong grip till the rest gets worked out.
If memory serves me right, the law could even get a Kennedy on that charge.....if not the murder of one young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne.
The question now becomes one of whether this interminable and objectively inexcusable delay violates Brown's right to due process of law. I don't know if he is guilty or innocent and quite honestly do not care, but I do know, along with Dr. King and Justice Marshall, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
This is just wrong on so many levels.
I feel this trial has been delayed too long, while a man who is not even convicted has spent over 7 years in a cell. There has to be some justice regardless, but the actual criminals seem to be the LA Authorites who continue to try to push Cam's emotions over the edge.
Stalker Ted Kaldis (brother-in-law of the accused) is at it again. He posted a picture, ostensibly of my house, on the Kook Kaldis Klan blog (at http://www.haloscan.com/comments/caseinsider/6350908546922578330/ ; page on file)
Kaldis has even traveled clear across Melbourne, Australia -- a metropolis the size of Chicago -- to photograph the home of a nemesis. It is the stalker's M.O.: "I know where you live, and I can get you at any time."
Kaldis has a tenuous grasp of reality as it is; if Cam Brown is convicted, I fear for his very sanity (and others' safety)....