Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: Nieto

Final argument in the Nieto case: What I would say

I am not a lawyer. I don’t know the rules of evidence. I don’t know what you can and can’t mention in a closing...

A trainwreck of a witness on final day of Nieto case

One of the city’s star witnesses in the Alex Nieto case took the stand today, and the result was one of the worst legal...

While cops pass notes and look away, Alex Nieto’s mom talks of the death of her son

In what has been the most overwhelming day in the Alex Nieto trial, the court heard testimony from a range of experts, mostly witnesses...

The Agenda, March 6-13, 2016: The end of 8 Washington, the next step in the Nieto trial…

The developer of 8 Washington finally threw in the towel the other day, ending a dramatic chapter of San Francisco politics that may have...

Nieto trial: More evidence casts doubt on police story

Just before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins entered the courtroom this morning, Alex Nieto’s parents took their seats carrying a solemn pink helium balloon,...

Nieto case witness directly contradicts everything the cops have said

In perhaps the most dramatic moment to date in the trial of the police officers who killed Alex Nieto, a man who was walking...

Dramatic new evidence in the Nieto trial

The officer who first opened fire on Alex Nieto testified today that he emptied an entire magazine, reloaded, and shot again, fearing that Nieto...

The Nieto trial: 59 shots — and big questions

The Alex Nieto case opened today, with the two sides presenting profoundly different versions of what happened that March evening in 2014 – and...

The Agenda, Feb. 29-March 6: The Alex Nieto trial, affordable housing ….

I didn’t think the Alex Nieto case was actually going to trial; most of these police-abuse cases don’t. The last thing the city typically...

Would modern police training have saved Mario Woods’ life?

Police Chief Greg Suhr and Captain Gregory Yee, who oversees department training, discussed changes in use-of-force training tonight that strongly suggested that the shootings...