APRIL 2011 - UPDATED FEBRUARY 2013
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis - DDA Laura Gunn
THE $20,000,000.00 DOLLAR EVIDENCE TAMPERING CONSPIRACY BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY BONNIE DUMANIS, DDA LAURA GUNN, THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THE SUPERIOR COURTS, AND "THE BLUE WALL"
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis's, DDA Laura Gunn and the DA's Office obstruction of justice and prosecutorial misconduct in the corrupted murder prosecution of Cynthia Sommer, was not the first, or the last occurrence of public criminal corruption, and conspiracy to obstruct justice, in the San Diego DA's Office. The Sommer case was the type of media high profile case that could makes the careers of ambitious District Attorneys.
However, when the Courts threw out the Sommer conviction in November of 2007, and a new trial was ordered, it set into motion multiple criminal cover up conspiracies, in multiple law enforcement agencies, including the San Diego DA's Office. The DA conspiracies were primarily motivated to cover up eight years of massive police and DA evidence tampering, police and firefighter union election fraud, a DA insurance fraud scheme, obstruction of justice in hundreds of criminal prosecutions, if not thousands, and to protect tens of millions of dollars in Union Pay and Benefit money.
The legal motions in the Sommer case, and a $20 million dollar civil law suit against the DA's Office, would lead to a very damaging court ruling for the DA's Office. The alleged evidence tampering, and prosecutorial misconduct in the Sommer case would prove to be only a small part of the overall long term DA and Police conspiracies to tamper with evidence, and obstruct justice in many criminal prosecutions.
THE SOMMER LITIGATION COURT DECISION IN 2010
Case 3:09-cv-02093-WQH -WMC Document 36 Filed 05/10/10
District Judge William Q. Hayes' ruling:
"Accepting as true all facts alleged in the Complaint and drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of Plaintiff, the Court concludes that the Complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to support a... due process claim against Dumanis and Gunn for deliberate fabrication of evidence during the investigation of Todd Sommer's death."
THE SOMMER MURDER CASE CORRUPTION
Cynthia Sommer's husband, Marine Sgt. Todd Sommer, died in 2002. Three years later, in November of 2005, Cynthia Sommer was arrested and prosecuted for the arsenic poisoning murder of Todd Sommer. The extremely high levels of arsenic poison was described by the DA's office, and medical examiners, as 1,250% higher than any lever of arsenic ever reported in a poisoning case.
That information alone should have been a big red flag to prosecutors and their experts. However, nobody was interested in an innocent Cynthia Sommer, including the Major News Media, who as usual put their financial and political interest first. Cynthia Sommer's life, after Todd's death, was sensationalized and exploited to sell news, and to advance the careers of ambitious Reporters, District Attorneys like DA Dumanis, and lead prosecutor DDA Gunn.
Cynthia Sommer was convicted in the press, and in the courts in January of 2007, for a crime she did not commit. Sommer was sent to prison based on arsenic poison evidence that never existed, and that any impartial competent DA, Military, or civilian Police Investigator should have known was highly suspect, from the very start.
Ten months later in November of 2007, the Sommer conviction was thrown out by the San Diego Superior Courts. A new trial was ordered, and new independent testing of Todd Sommer's remains disclosed no evidence of arsenic poison in the tissues, or fluids of the body. Cynthia Sommer had been arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and served almost two and a half years in prison for a crime she did not commit, and there was extensive evidence of incompetence, and misconduct by prosecutors DA Dumanis and DDA Gunn, medical examiners, and others involved in the Sommer investigation, and prosecution.
Sommer was released from prison, however, through out 2008 and into 2009 there had been no new charges filed, no new trial scheduled, and the DA's Office was actively opposing all motions from Sommer's attorneys to finalize the case, and clear Sommer's name, with a full dismissal with prejudice. An important legal distinction, that would prohibit the DA's office from blocking subpoenas, for DA documents and staff depositions, in any future civil litigations against Dumanis, Gunn, and the DA's Office.
The hard written evidence, of that internal high level DA Office criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice, would not surface for more than three years. The DA's criminal conspiracy was designed and executed to make sure the case was never dismissed "with prejudice", and that the confidential internal memo documents on the obstruction of justice, never saw the light of day.
THE DA SOMMER CONSPIRACY MOTIVE EVIDENCE
The DA Office's obstruction of justice, in the dismissal of the Sommer case was on going in 2008 through 2010, even though DDA Gunn, DA Bonnie Dumanis, and the DA's office knew in April of 2008 that the arsenic poisoning evidence used to convict Sommer was not valid, did not exist, and had never existed.
GTI's investigation recently discovered a confidential DA Inter-Departmental Correspondence memo, from DDA Gunn, the lead prosecutor in the Sommer case, to DA Dumanis, and Assistant DA Rodriguez.
The memo was developed and written by DDA Gunn, in response to the court order of a new trial for Cynthia Sommer. The memo tells the truth, and ties DA Dumanis, DDA Gunn, and the DA's office directly to a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The internal correspondence document memo surfaced in December of 2011, three years after it was written, when it was filed with the courts, related to a different case of DA Office corruption cover up. The DA Sommer case court motion documents, were written and filed after the DA confidential memo document, describing no evidence of arsenic poisoning in the Cynthia Sommer case. Documents that confirm a DA conspiracy to obstruct justice, and manipulate the court systems, to protect DA Dumanis, Gunn and the DA's Office from criminal, and civil liability, once again at the expense of Cynthia Sommer.
DA INTER-DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE DATED APRIL 17, 2008 FROM DDA LAURA GUNN TO DA DUMANIS
POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION TO MOTION TO DISMISS WITH PREJUDICE AND TO FINDING OF PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT: OPPOSITION TO EVIDENTIARY HEARING AND MOTION TO QUASH SUBPOENA DATED 9-25-09
DDA Gunn states in part, in her memo of April 2008:
"In the course of preparing this case for retrial, several developments have occurred that seriously undermine the arsenic evidence against the defendant."(Cynthia Sommer)
"Doctor Kosnett outlined four major problem areas with our case: (1) the absence of arsenic in the urine; (2) the absence of any species of arsenic other than DMA, (3) the massive discrepancy between the high levels of arsenic in the liver and kidney and the low or nonexistent levels in the other organs and (4) substantial problems with the methodology employed by AFIP. The lab problems include serious variations in reporting, large discrepancies in math, and unorthodox sample prep methods."
"I called Dr. Weber and asked if there was any way that an acute arsenic poisoning victim could have 92.4 ppm of arsenic in one part of his liver and none at all in another part. He said no, it was not possible. The same was true for the kidney: it is not feasible that Todd would have 16 ppm of arsenic in part of his kidney and not a trace of it in another part."
Even though the DA's office knew the arsenic poisoning never occurred, they also knew that a dismissal "with prejudice" would allow Sommer's attorney's subpoena access to all DA records, and the deposition of DDA Gunn, DA Dumanis, and others under oath. Documents and testimony that could be used to support both criminal and civil liability prosecutions of everyone involved. So the DA's office started conspiring to oppose all Sommer court motions to dismiss the case "with prejudice".
DA's SOMMER CONSPIRACY MOTIVES
In April 2008 DA Dumanis was already protecting an internal criminal insurance fraud scheme, operating out of the DA's Insurance fraud Investigation Division, that was providing an additional five million a year, for DA union jobs. A fraud scheme operated by a DDA named Ernest Marugg, who was described as a Sex Predator, preying on the women he prosecuted. The high probability of a multi-million dollar law suit from Cynthia Sommer, with the potential call for criminal charges against Dumanis, Gunn, and other DA's did not fit into DA Dumanis's future political plans to run for mayor, or the public image of the DA's office, so the conspiracy was activated.
In early 2009 the Oceanside Officer Damon Smith evidence tampering, and the Oceanside Police and Firefighters election fraud conspiracy publicly surfaced, and both were quickly added to the Sommer conspiracy, and brought under the protection of the DA's office, and their corrupted Internal Affairs Division. This was done to protect eight years of corrupted criminal prosecutions, ongoing wide spread evidence tampering between DDA's, the Oceanside Police Department, and others agencies, and to protect the Sommer case cover up conspiracy. Any investigation of the Oceanside Police election fraud conspiracy would lead directly to the Police and DA evidence tampering cover up, and that evidence would provide Sommer's attorneys with long term smoking gun evidence, that could be used against DA Dumanis, DDA Gunn, and the DA' office.
As Reported By GTI News Photo
CALIFORNIA FINANCING CRIMINAL INSURANCE FRAUD WITH PAYOFFS TO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS 2008
OCEANSIDE POLICE & FIREFIGHTER PUBLIC UNIONS ELECTION FRAUD & EVIDENCE TAMPERING COVER UP CONSPIRACY TO EXPAND PAY AND BENEFITS 2009
OCEANSIDE OFFICER DAMON SMITH AUDIO TAPE EVIDENCE TAMPERING CONSPIRACY & COVER UP
Future GTI News investigations would expose more of the overall motives for the Sommer case conspiracy, and a lot more evidence tampering between district attorneys, Oceanside police officers, and other law enforcement agencies. That police and DA evidence tampering was ongoing in 2009, 2010, and continuing while the DA's office was conspiring to obstruct the Sommer murder case dismissal, and to get the $20 million dollar civil litigation against Dumanis, Gunn, and the DA's office throw out of court.
As Reported By GTI News Photo
OCEANSIDE OFFICER JON DOMONIQUE & DDA RODRIGUEZ AUDIO TAPE EVIDENCE TAMPERING & COVER UP
DDA LAURA GUNN EVIDENCE TAMPERING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTCE & COVER UP
OCEANSIDE'S CHIEF DIRTY COP FRANK McCOY, CONSPIRES WITH SENIOR COPS, TO DESTROY AUDIO TAPE EVIDENCE OF POLICE PUBLIC CORRUPTION, IN SGT LARSON CASE, AGAIN !
DDA DAMON MOSLER'S SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION CORDINATING EVIDENCE TAMPERING COVER UP
SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL GARY SCHONS PUBLIC CORRUPTION COVER UP
SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL GARY SCHONS RESIGNS UNDER SAN DIEGO PUBLIC CORRUPTION COVER UP QUESTIONS & COMPLAINTS
When law enforcement, and the criminal justice system, is penetrated at the highest levels by public criminal corruption, as in the People Vs. Sommer case (DA's Dumanis & Gunn), the People Vs. Shields case (Officer Domonique & DDA Rodriguez), the People Vs. Shippee case (DDA Rodriguez), and the Officer Damon Smith eight years of evidence tampering, the law enforcement system can become a dangerous weapon. Possibly, even a lethal weapon, when it is used against an innocent public, to protect the corruption and the personal finances of the people running the system.
The potential exposure of each of these public corruption cases, and connecting them to the San Diego District Attorney's office, the Oceanside Police and Firefighters, Judges in the Superior Courts, and other law enforcement agencies would be catastrophic. It would expand the over all cover up of the conspiracy to obstruct justice, and expose dozens if not hundreds of law enforcement personal, union officials, Judges, and elected officials to career ending investigations, and even prison.
THE DA CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN THE SOMMER MURDER CASE, HOW IT WORKED, & WHY IT WAS DONE !!!
DA Dumanis and DDA Gunn, as experienced prosecuting attorneys, recognized the danger to their careers, and possibly their freedom, that were associated with the courts new trial order for Cynthia Sommer in November 2007. Especially a new trial order with extensive documentation on evidence fabrication, misconduct by prosecutors, and most importantly the knowledge that the arsenic poisoning evidence used to convict Sommer, never existed.
It was only a matter of time before Sommer's attorneys expanded their investigations of the DA's Office looking for supporting evidence, from the DA's files, DA depositions, or other evidence tampering cases. That investigation would be followed by a Civil Complaint for damages that would be substantial. There had already been many local news stories on other San Diego District Attorneys tampering with evidence in criminal prosecutions, and a few San Diego Court Judges were even questioning DA Dumanis, and other DDAs on their handling of evidence in multiple criminal prosecution case. However, there was no follow through by the local press, and no questioning of DA and police evidence tampering being dismissed by judges, with a no punishment, and just a slap on the wrist.
DA documents and court records indicate that DA Dumanis's, DDA Gunn's, and the DA office's plan of attack and self protection in the Sommer Case corruption cover up was time tested, and the DA's Office legal and financial resources were available to make the conspiracy work.
Step One (1)would be to oppose all legal motions from Sommer's attorneys that could provide additional evidence, that could be used against Dumanis, Gunn, or others in any future criminal or civil actions. That would include obstructing full dismissal of the case to protect DA files and staff from subpoenas.
Step Two (2)- The DA's Office would use the legal process to stress and deplete the financial resources of Sommer and her attorneys. Any money spent on the motion process would reduce the available finances for Sommer to pursue any future civil litigation.
If a civil complaint is filed, the DA's Office would use all legal and financial resources to get the civil complaint thrown out, financially bankrupt Plaintiff Sommer, or force a quiet settlement, paid for with tax dollars, that could be used to hide the public corruption conspiracy.
As Reported By GTI News Photo:
PUBLIC CORRUPTION COVER UP THROUGH CIVIL LITIGATION
Step Three (3) would be to keep any and all smoking gun evidence, of other public criminal corruption and evidence tampering by the DA's Office, and local police, out of the hands of Sommer's attorneys. A documented pattern of evidence tampering, and its cover up, would be the worst possible occurrence for DA Dumanis, DDA Gunn, the DA's Office, and local law enforcement in general.
Even worse, if the same police department already being protected from investigations on a conspiracy to manipulate an election for union profit, had direct evidence tampering connections to multiple Deputy District Attorneys and DA Dumanis.
Future investigations would disclose the DA's office knew about, and was protecting exactly that type of direct evidence tampering connections in multiple cases in the Oceanside PD and County Sheriffs Department.
The coordinators of that criminal cover up was the DA's Special Operations Division, under DDA Damon Mosler.
As Reported By GTI News Photo
DDA DAMON MOSLER'S SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION CORDINATING EVIDENCE TAMPERING COVER UP
THE HIDDEN DA DRIVING MOTIVES FOR CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE
GTI INVESTIGATIONS LINKED BY MONEY AND MOTIVE
In late April of 2009, DA Dumanis's and the DA's office worst nightmares started occurring in broad daylight. The Oceanside Police Officer Damon Smith Evidence Tampering was discovered in the North County Courts, under oath, where it could not be easily suppressed. The DA obstruction of the motion hearing process in the Sommer's case had been active since early 2008, and it was continuing. Sommer's attorneys were actively investigating, and preparing for a large dollar civil litigation against DA Dumanis, DDA Gunn, and the DA's office.
Oceanside Officer Damon Smith had been secretly recording criminal investigations on audio tapes for eight (8) years, and hiding the tapes from the criminal justice system. Eight years of secret audio tape evidence tampering in a small police department could not have gone undetected, unless other officer were also involved in evidence tampering, or covering it up.
DA Dumanis had eight years of corrupted criminal prosecutions with just one Oceanside police officer, and the knowledge to know that any arrest or prosecution of Officer Smith would surely lead to the names of other Police Officer, and even District Attorneys, which later GTI investigations proved to be the case.
DA Dumanis and the DA's Office was already obstructing complaints against the Oceanside Police and Fire Departments and their public unions for election fraud, and for the Police Departments involvement in protecting the criminal insurance fraud scheme in the DA's Insurance Fraud Division. DA Dumanis knew that any public criminal investigation of Officer Smith's evidence tampering, would lead straight back to the DA's office, and directly into the hands of Cynthia Sommer and her attorneys.
The Officer Smith evidence tampering was already in the press, and a large number of audio tapes had already been recovered. DA Dumanis knew that an investigation could not be avoided. The only way for DA Dumanis, and the DA's Office, to control, and suppress the Officer Smith evidence tampering investigation, was to have it brought into the DA's Special Operations Division. Even though it was a major conflict of interest.
Dumanis also knew that the head of any investigation had to be someone with a vested interest in protecting Dumanis and the DA's Office from the Sommer litigation. That person was the lead prosecutor in the Sommer Case, and DA Dumanis's future co-defendant, DDA Laura Gunn. DDA Gunn, like Dumanis, was named in the court filings for the new trial, and accused of being involved in fabricating evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct.
DDA Gunn was DA Dumanis's perfect choice to head up, obstruct, and suppress the Officer Smith evidence tampering investigation. Gunn obstructing and suppressing the investigation would blocks additional hard evidence of police and DA evidence tampering getting into the on going Sommer motion hearings, and that is exactly what DDA Gunn did. Future investigations would disclose that DDA Gunn also suppress a witness, in the Officer Smith investigation. A witness to the involvement of other Oceanside Police Officers in evidence tampering, that were directly connected to other Deputy District Attorneys evidence tampering.
As Reported By GTI News Photo
DDA LAURA GUNN EVIDENCE TAMPERING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTCE & COVER UP
Starting in May of 2009 DA Dumanis actively supported the obstruction of justice, by protecting Officer Smith from arrest and prosecution. While making statements to the press that Officer Smith had not violated any laws, and would not be prosecuted. Statements that started three weeks after the discovery of the Smith evidence tampering, and just as DDA Gunn was appointed to head up the investigation. The investigation has just started and Dumanis is already supporting the innocence of Officer Smith, to keep his mouth shut, about the involvement of other Oceanside Police Officers in massive evidence tampering, and court manipulations.
The Oceanside Police and Chief McCoy are happy to support the criminal cover up of the evidence tampering to protect the on going Police and Firefighter union election fraud conspiracy. Cover up needed to protect their public image which is critical to the on going new union expanded contract negotiations, which is the goal of the on going election fraud. The Officer Smith investigation is buried in the DA's Special Operations Division for the next 7 months with "No Comment due to an on going investigation". Not one law enforcement agency was willing to investigate as all of the criminals were police officers and district attorneys.
The cover up works great, and all of the local news press, for a variety of self serving reasons including money bribes, move on to other stories. The primary reasons being the corruption involves large numbers of Police Officers, Firefighters, District Attorneys, their public unions, and the cash flow from the public unions into the advertising departments of the news organizations.
August 2009, Other Evidence Tampering Hidden In The Shadows of the DA's Office, and the Oceanside Police Department was on going, As Reported By GTI News Photo:
OCEANSIDE'S CHIEF DIRTY COP FRANK McCOY, CONSPIRES WITH SENIOR COPS, TO DESTROY AUDIO TAPE EVIDENCE OF POLICE PUBLIC CORRUPTION, AGAIN !
OCEANSIDE OFFICER JON DOMONIQUE & DDA RODRIGUEZ AUDIO TAPE EVIDENCE TAMPERING & COVER UP
In early September 2009 the DA's self protection, through legal motion oppositions in the Sommer case, moved into high gear. Sommer's attorneys are still pushing for a court dismissal of the case with prejudice, which would bar any future retrial of Sommer on the same charges, and clear her name.
Sommer's attorneys also want the deposition of DDA Gunn under oath, an evidentuary hearing, and a court finding of prosecutorial misconduct. The DA's office is against all issues, as each would provide evidence that could be used against DA Dumanis, DDA Gunn, and the DA's office in any future civil litigation, or criminal prosecutions.
On September 25, 2009 the DA's office continues their conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Sommer case, and files their opposition to the Sommer's motions. The DA's office already knows there will not be a new trial, and the DA's inter-departmental communication letter of 4-17-08 makes it clear that the DA's office knows the arsenic poisoning evidence originally used against Sommer, never existed.
However, a Sommer case dismissal without prejudice, leaving the door open to a future prosecution that will never occur, provides the DA's office with a number of legal ways to protect DA files from subpoenas, and to protect DDA Gunn and Dumanis from being fully deposed under oath. One more legal trick used to hide evidence, and cover up public corruption, however, it is criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice.
POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION TO MOTION TO DISMISS WITH PREJUDICE AND TO FINDING OF PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT: OPPOSITION TO EVIDENTIARY HEARING AND MOTION TO QUASH SUBPOENA DATED 9-25-09
On September 26, 2009 Sommer's attorneys file a $20 Million Dollar civil suit against Dumanis, Gunn, and others for Violations Of Constitutional And Civil Right And Damages. There is no evidence that Sommer's attorneys are aware of the Officer Damon Smith evidence tampering cover up by Dumanis and Gunn, or the ongoing Office Domonique and DDA Rodriquez evidence tampering cover up.
MORE HIDDEN CORRUPTION: DDA MARUGG SEX PREDATOR, AND OCEANSIDE POLICE CHIEF McCOY CONSPIRACY
DA Dumanis and the DA's office then activates their next line of legal obstruction, and protection. The financial and legal resources of the DA Office's are geared up to get the Sommer civil suit thrown out, and further reduce the financial resources of Sommer, and her attorneys. The DA's opposition to a dismissal of the case with prejudice continues to protect DA files, DA Dumanis, and DDA Gunn from subpoenas.
This is done to increase the chances of a quiet tax dollar paid financial settlement, in the event the suit is not thrown out by the courts. The DA's office continues to suppress all criminal investigations of DA and Police evidence tampering that would provide evidence that could support the Sommer litigation.
$20 MILLION DOLLAR CIVIL COMPAINT FROM CYNTHIS SOMMER
In October 2009 this reporter's investigation discovers a witness, to the involvement of other Oceanside Police Officers, in the Officer Smith evidence tampering. A witness, and officer of the court, that was easily found, and he had never been contacted by anyone, in any investigation of Officer Damon Smith.
As there was no observable evidence that any DA investigation of Officer Smith had ever occurred, this reporter decided to test the investigation. The witness information was given to DDA Gunn, head of the DA's on going investigation, and the Oceanside Police to see if they would follow up. DDA Gunn, and the Oceanside Police Department, suppressed the witness information, and never follow up, or contacted the witness.
Approximately two weeks later 35+ of the audio evidence tapes recovered from Officer Smith, were released to the Public Defenders Office, and DA Dumanis once again affirmed the innocence of Officer Smith, and the investigation was quietly closed, with no further comment from the DA's office, Oceanside Police, any other law enforcement agency, or the news media.
As Reported By GTI News Photo
DDA LAURA GUNN EVIDENCE TAMPERING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTCE & COVER UP
On November 4, 2009, as a citizen, this reporter met with Deputy District Attorney Damon Mosler, head of DA Internal Affairs, and filed multiple felony criminal complaints, with documentation, against DDA Laura Gunn for witness suppression, evidence tampering, and obstruction of justice. Other criminal complaints were filed against various supporters of the Oceanside Police & Fire Department, and their unions for perjury, election fraud, conspiracy, and falsification of campaign finance records.
The complaint process was recorded on audio tape to verify submission.
On March 25, 2010 this reporter was contacted by Michael Shields. The investigation lead to the discovery of more evidence tampering, and its cover up, involving Oceanside Police Officer Jon Domonique, DDA Daniel Rodriguez, and DDA Elizabeth Silva. All of which would have crossed the desk of DDA Damon Mosler in the Special Operation Division in 2009. Michael Shields, like Cynthia Sommer, was arrested and prosecuted for a felony crime he did not commit. While the police and DA's hid the evidence that would clear him. The DA's cover up of the Officer Domonique and DDA Rodriguez evidence tampering was on going in 2009, along with the Officer Smith evidence tampering, and other cases.
The Officer Domonique & DDA Rodriguez Evidence Tampering
On February 25, 2009 Shields was arrested for Assault With A Deadly Weapon at a traffic accident scene. Audio tape evidence that would prove Shields innocence was hidden by the Oceanside Police Department and the San Diego District Attorneys Office for a year. This was done to protect Officer Domonique, and corrupt Deputy District Attorney Daniel Rodriguez, from arrest and prosecution.
More importantly, the cover up was to hide more evidence, of evidence tampering from the Cynthia Sommer civil litigation. The Officer Domonique, and DDA Rodriguez audio tape evidence tampering was identical, to the Officer Damon Smith audio tape evidence tampering. Recorded audio evidence tapes that would prove the innocence of Michael Shields were hidden, while DDA Rodriguez, and DDA Silva pushed Shields to accept a plea bargain in exchange for less prison time, for a crime the police and DA's knew Shields did not commit. Shields, out of pure fear of prison, considered suicide, instead of going to prison, for a crime he did not commit.
As Reported By GTI News Photo
OCEANSIDE OFFICER JON DOMONIQUE & DDA RODRIGUEZ AUDIO TAPE EVIDENCE TAMPERING & COVER UP
This reporters investigation disclosed that in August of 2009 DDA Rodriguez was removed from the Shields prosecution. Rodriguez was suspended from the DA's Office pending investigation, for hiding audio tape evidence in another felony prosecution case, know as the People Vs. Shippee. Once again, as in the Sommer Murder prosecution, and the Shields Assault With A Deadly Weapon prosecution, evidence of innocence was hidden while District Attorneys pushed the prosecution of people they knew were innocent of the charges.
Shields and his attorney stated that in late August 2009, DDA Rodriguez was replaced on the Shields prosecution by DDA Elizabeth Silva. Silva, like Rodriguez, continued to deny the existence of the Shields audio tape statement evidence, until the day of trial. The Officer Domonique and DDA Rodriguez cover up in the Shields case was occurring at exactly the same time in 2009, and continuing into 2010 as the Officer Damon Smith Evidence Tampering cover up, and the Chief of Police McCoy Evidence Tampering cover up.
If Michael Shields had committed suicide as a result of the false prosecution, and cover up, man slaughter, and possibly murder charges would have been appropriate for DA Dumanis, Officer Domonique, DDA Gunn, DDA Rodriguez, and others. DDA Damon Mosler's Special Operations Division would have been handling the Rodriguez investigation cover up, just like the Officer Smith investigation cover up.
Between November of 2009 and February of 2010, multiple phone calls to DDA Damon Mosler requesting information on the felony criminal complaints filed in November of 2009 against DDA Gunn where received with no comment, or no reply to the phone call messages and e-mails.
On February 9, 2010 a written copy of the criminal complaint, with full documentation on DDA Gunn detailing the felony complaints verbally given to DDA Mosler, and recorded on audio tape, in November of 2009, was sent to DA Dumanis, and Assistant Attorney General Gary Schons of the San Diego Attorney Generals Office, with signatures required to confirm delivery.
On March 23, 2010 at 1430 hrs, with no response from DDA Mosler, or the Oceanside Police regarding the criminal complaints filed in November 2009 and February 2010, this reporter again called DDA Damon Mosler. Mosler stated that DDA Laura Gunn no longer worked for the District Attorneys office, and there would be no criminal investigation.
The termination of DDA Laura Gunn, as usual, was now declared to be a personnel problem, and State employee privacy laws were cited to block all information. All Public Records Request were blocked as not being in the publics best interest. The forced filing of a criminal complaint with documentation against DDA Gunn, had made her too much of a liability for DA Dumanis, and the DA's Office.
DDA Mosler declined to discuss any of the felony criminal complaints this reporter filed with him on November 4, 2009, and sent to DA Dumanis in writing in February 2010. The DDA Rodriguez and Officer Domonique evidence tampering complaint previously sent via e-mail, was reviewed with DDA Mosler. Mosler refused comment on the DDA Rodriguez and Officer Domonique evidence tampering, and advised this reporter to contact Media Director Paul Levikow, in DA Dumanis's Office regarding DDA Rodriguez.
At 1443 hrs, this reporter contacted Paul Levikow. Levikow stated that DDA Rodriguez, like DDA Gunn, no longer worked for the DA's Office. Levikow also cited under personnel privacy laws, to block questions on DDA Rodriguez, and the DDA Gunn and Officer Smith criminal complaints. When questioned about the Officer Domonique - DDA Rodriguez evidence tampering, and about the involvement of DDA Silva, Levikow became audibly irritated, and refused to discuss any of the complaints. Levikow stated I should just send the information to him via e-mail. Levikow refused my request for an interview with DA or the knowledge of DA Dumanis, and ended the interview.
DDA Rodriquez, like DDA Gunn, had also become a liability to DA Dumanis, the corruption cover up, and to the DA Office's legal assault, to get the Sommer Civil Complaint dismissed. There is no doubt that DDA Gunn and DDA Rodriguez both understand, if they opened their mouths, or opposed the terminations, their legal careers would be over, and they would likely go to prison.
UPDATE - MORE ONGOING DDA CORRUPTION AND COVER UP DISCOVERED
DA OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WRITTEN BLUE PRINT EXPOSED IN 2012
On April 5, 2010 this reporter, as requested, filed the DDA Rodriguez and Oceanside Officer Domonique evidence tampering complaints in writing, with documentation. The complaint was filed with the Oceanside Police under criminal complaint #10006794, and copies sent to the attention of DA Dumanis, the San Diego Attorney Generals Office, and the FBI. As usual there was never any follow up, or investigation. Criminal complaints filed to test Law Enforcement Agencies, with the names of DA's, Police Officers, and Judges, disappearing with no comment, speaks volumes, to anyone that is listening.
Dumanis and the Oceanside Police knew that any criminal investigation of the DDA Rodriguez and Oceanside Officer Domonique evidence tampering would lead directly back to the Officer Damon Smith evidence tampering, and the Oceanside Police election fraud. Any investigation, of any part of the public corruption, would pull down the corrupt house of cards, and provide evidence that could be used against Dumanis in the Sommer's motions and civil trial, if the DA's office failed to get the civil suit thrown out. The evidence could also be used against the Oceanside Police and Fire Departments, the Oceanside City Council, and others ending political careers, and potentially sending DA's, Police and Fire Officers, and elected officials to prison.
Five days later on April 10, 2010 Dumanis's worst fears in the Sommer litigation became reality. Judge William Hayes Ruling, on the Sommer civil suit, was released. The case was not thrown out of court, and DA Dumanis, and DDA Gunn were not protected from the $20 Million Dollar law suit. The situation got even worse when Judge Hayes included the follow in his decision.
Case 3:09-cv-02093-WQH -WMC Document 36 Filed 05/10/10
District Judge William Q. Hayes' ruling, states:
"Accepting as true all facts alleged in the Complaint and drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of Plaintiff, the Court concludes that the Complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to support a... due process claim against Dumanis and Gunn for deliberate fabrication of evidence during the investigation of Todd Sommer's death."
The Sommer civil litigation legal chess match is continuing as of the date of this article, and so is the criminal cover by multiple public Law Enforcement agencies. The stakes have increased with each level of public corruption. All of this public criminal corruption could not have occurred without the blind, and often greedy support, of the "Blue Wall" of corrupt Police Officers, District Attorneys, and their out of control public unions.
In March of 2011 the stakes increased again with DA Dumanis's announcement that she will run for Mayor Of San Diego in 2012. So the arrogant criminal public corruption of DA Dumanis continues, with the hope and plan, that a settlement paid for by tax dollar, can be reached in the Sommer civil litigation, and the hope that the settlement agreement will have a secrecy clause. The public agencies will happily pay, to cover up all of the public criminal corruption, and stay out of prison. After all, it's only tax dollars!
A REPORTERS PROSPECTIVE
A corrupt DA has the legal and financial resources to bury all citizen based legal challenges. If no one is watching, and reporting, the average innocent citizens like Cynthia Sommer, Michael Shields, and others, have little or no chance against such public criminal corruption. The cover up, is also more effective, when the major news media is involved in the corruption cover up to protect union advertising income, and news sources in law enforcement.
As Reported By GTI News Photo:
North County Times News Media Police & Fire Election Fraud Corruption
ABC, CBS, & NBC NETWORK NEWS PUBLIC CORRUPTION "INCEST" & REPORTING BIAS WITH FIRST RESPONDER UNIONS
The Civil Litigations system is the only option left to a citizens, when the corruption involves self protecting public law enforcement agencies, and the civil system is loaded against the citizen. In general the party with the most money, and legal resources will win the day, nine out of ten times, and the DA's Office has unlimited legal and financial resources, supported by tax dollars. Less than 10% of American citizens can afford to pay for a major civil litigation. The high cost of civil litigation is used as a weapon, by the financially strong party, to bankrupt the financially weak party, and force a settlement. Civil settlements always involve no admission of responsibility, and most have secrecy agreements providing the perfect protection for public criminal corruption cover up. This is why criminal corruption in public agencies is always pushed into the civil litigation system, whenever possible.
As Reported By GTI News Photo:
SAN DIEGO DISTRICT ATTORNEY PUBLIC CORRUPTION COVER UP THRU CIVIL LITIGTION
ALL REQUEST FOR DA INTERVIEWS WERE REJECTED
ALL WRITTEN AND ORAL COMPLAINTS ON THE PUBLIC CORRUPTION WERE BURIED
THE CONSPIRACY LAWS ARE VERY CLEAR AND THE DA'S OFFICE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY -California Penal Code Sec. 182(a) - "IF TWO OR MORE PERSONS CONSPIRE TO COMMIT A CRIME", ANY CRIME.
Co-Conspirator (Accessory)
In most U.S. jurisdictions today,......... an accessory can be convicted even if the principal actor is not arrested or is acquitted. The prosecution must establish that the accessory in some way instigated, furthered, or concealed the crime.
An accessory after the fact is someone who knows that a crime has occurred but nonetheless helps to conceal it. Today, this action is often termed obstructing justice.
In Criminal Law, contributing to or aiding in the commission of a crime. One who, without being present at the commission of an offense, becomes guilty of such offense, not as a chief actor, but as a participant, as by command, advice, instigation, or concealment; either before or after the fact or commission.
NEW INFO
In January of 2012 the DA's long term pattern of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and cover up criminal corruption through forced terminations of corrupt DDA's, was confirmed in writing. Corrupt Deputy District Attorneys, like Gunn and Rodriguez, that became a civil and criminal liability to DA Dumanis and the DA's office, would be allowed to quietly resign, and they would be protected from criminal investigations and prosecution, if they kept their mouths shut.
As Reported By GTI News Photo:
Woodrow L. Higdon, Photo Journalist and Editor
