Mark’s Soap Box

The trial of Seth Cravens, 22 continues today with jurors deliberating his fate. Charged with the death of Emery Kauanui,24. He is the only defendant to not take a plea. Three plead to involuntary manslaughter, and the other plead to accessory after the fact.

The defense is claiming Self-defense, which is odd considering you can’t be defending yourself if you agree to fight. The prosecution is claiming that only Kauanui, acted in Self-defense.

Contrary to the portrayal by his mom, Kauanui was not as innocent as some say. He was a hard drinker who routinely got into fights while hanging with a crowd of ne’er do wells.

Other coverage

• Neighbor describes what he heard
• • “Get off of him! … Seth, please stop. Get off of him!

    During his testimony Tuesday, Corona said he recognized the woman’s voice as that of Jennifer Grosso, Kauanui’s girlfriend. Corona said he also heard male voices saying, “Get him. Hit him.”

• Attorneys outline cases in surfers death
• Grieving GF describes surfer’s death
  • Grosso said Kauanui had lost the fight with House, but managed to stand up. She said Cravens then hit Kauanui with a single punch.

    “I heard his skull crack when it hit the pavement. I mean, at that point, after the punch happened, it was like, silence, and there was like a ‘crack’. It was just like a ’slap’, a clean break, and you could hear it . I mean it sounded like something pinged off the concrete and then immediately after that there was a pool of blood that started streaming from the back of Emery’s head,” Grosso said.

• DA asks what would a “reasonable” person do? — are there any in CA?

Previously on the Island

• Judge Denies Bird Rock Bandit Cravens Motion
• Bird Rock Bandits Sued
• Bird Rock Bandits Take Plea Deal
• Judge says they are not gangs
• Bird Rock Bandits in court accused of being a gang
• Bird Rock Bail Unchanged
• Bird-brain five prelim hearing
• College QB charged in surfer death
• Accused Surfer Murderer checks into Rehab

Tags: Seth Cravens, Eric House, Orlando Osuna, Matthew Yanke, Henri Hendricks, hank hendricks, Emery Kauanui, bird rock bandits, la jolla, murder

Cynthia Sommer — convicted, then un-convicted of her Marine husband’s death by the incompetent DA of San Diego County — will not have her request for dismissal heard by the Judge who presided over the original trial.

San Diego Superior Court Judge John Einhorn yesterday denied Bloom’s request to transfer the matter to Judge Peter Deddeh, now in El Cajon, who granted the new trial.

Einhorn said the defense wants Deddeh to evaluate the new evidence – the second set of tissue samples – in light of what was presented at trial. However, the law would not allow Deddeh to factor new evidence into his decision, making a transfer unnecessary.

The motion will be taken up again on Dec 5th.

Sommer was convicted in 2007, and then has the charges dismissed when the DA’s office finally figured out their evidence was flawed. This came after Sommer was granted a new trial for ‘ineffectual counsel.’

Other Coverage

• The Free Cindy Site — lots of good info here
• Video of Cynthia leaving jail
• Marine Wife — did she do it?
• Jennifer A. at Gather and her take
• Free Cindy — read the comments, scary
• Channel 10 has video of the case
• someone whining about Cynthia’s behavior being such a big deal
• someone ripping on the Union-Tribune for their lack of coverage — the “newspaper” here in SD
• CourtTV (now realTV or some such hoo-ha) has the back story here.

Previously on the Island

• Thad Jesperson Conviction Overturned - oh yea, it’s a San Diego Case
• Another Miscarriage of Justice - yep San Diego again
• SD pays for G-String screw up - more “awesome” lawyer-ing in SD
• The all things Mike Aguirre - leader of the pack

Tags: usmc, marine widow, cynthia sommer, oceanside, san diego, ineffective counsel, murder

Governor Idiot of California says the GOP should move beyond Ideology. Clearly he missed the election this year. John McCain tried that and lost to an Ideologue. He also missed how Conservative ideas ARE winning when they are put forth, and his ‘finger to the wind’ “moderate” approach is failing miserably. More stupidity from the Blovinator.

Even worse the Blovinator is for Homosexual Marriages. He even encouraged the anti-prop-8 freaks to not give up. It’s three strikes and you are out. This is the same Governor who vetoed Same Sex Marriage Twice before.

Get over it, your left wing bullcrap is dead. Obama is your last hurrah.

Tags: california, schwarzenegger, governor, john mccain, gop, republican, moderate

That is the only logical conclusion to draw about this “reform.”

“Election Reformers” want forced registration of ALL “eligible voters.”

Oh yea, nothing bad could happen here. It’s not like dead people vote in Chicago, or illegals vote in Los Angeles, or ACORN (Obama’s former employer) is signing up people who are not supposed to vote.

If you don’t have the sense to register to vote, then you are too stupid to vote anyway. It’s called personal responsibility.

Beyond that, who the hell made them the voter registration police. This is starting to sound like Orwell’s book, “1984.”

Tags: barack obama, election, obama, vote, vote fraud, voter, voter registration

Tags: barack obama, election, obama, vote, vote fraud, voter, voter registration