Berkeley police arrest 17-year-old for shooting friend The victim is also a minor–he’s still in the hospital after undergoing surgery. (berkeleydailyplanet.com)
Nancy Garrido’s lawyer seeks to block ‘evil’ transcripts Says that if Jaycee Lee Dugard’s grand jury testimony becomes public, Garrido could not possibly get a fair trial. (blogs.sacbee.com)
Two killed in East Oakland after CHP chase One man, 19, was being pursued by the police. The second, 31, was hit and killed by the first. (Inside Bay Area)
Judge gives pot growers until Nov. 30 to harvest Criticizes Fresno County for banning pot plants, though upholds the ban. Where are medical marijuana patients supposed to get their weed, the judge asked lawyers, “the medical marijuana fairy?” (San Francisco Chronicle)
SFPD: The city behaved themselves (mostly) during Giants parade A couple of minor incidents are reported, but all in all, the city was left mostly just smelly, not torched. (SF Appeal)
Doug Wilson
It feels like an “only in California” type experiment. In the run-up to voting on Proposition 19, which would legalize recreational marijuana in California, there’s been a lot of talk about whether legalization would increase the amount of people driving under the influence. So police in Los Angeles decided to see what they might be dealing with. They recruited a number of people to smoke up and drive. (On a closed course.) Among them was Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez. He wrote about his experiences for today’s paper and it’s a pretty entertaining piece–think of the paranoia alone–about cops trying to see what marijuana-impaired driving looks like. An excerpt:
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A California Highway Patrol motorcycle struck and injured a pedestrian this morning in San Francisco’s Ingleside neighborhood. Preliminary reports suggest the pedestrian may have been intoxicated. . .
A big-rig was allegedly to blame in yesterday’s morning-commute-disrupting closure of the Bay Bridge. A truck apparently hit the car in front of it, which then went spinning into at least two other cars. Three drivers suffered what appear to be minor injuries. . .
An Apple employee accused of taking about $1 million in kickbacks from Asian vendors is scheduled to appear in court today. The court will decide today whether to release the man pending trial–he’s been in jail since his arrest Friday. Some say such kickbacks are commonplace. . .
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