Cop math
Dennis Roberts, via email, 9 June 2016
Ahhh, cop math. Today I read a new story about drug trafficking; a huge marijuana raid involving several grow houses in Oakland and the Sinaloa cartel. 15 were arrested. In one paragraph the police say the marijuana was worth almost $4 million dollars. A couple of paragraphs later they say they cannot estimate the value of the marijuana. How is this possible? Simple. The cops found a note which said “this marijuana is worth almost 4 million dollars” but it was not notarized so they couldn’t be sure. It’s simple to figure it out just like the cops do. It’s cop math. Just take the poundage and make an assumption. Each pound yields X joints. Ascribe a value to a joint and multiply. Cop math. No officer you cannot use your calculator. You’ve done hundreds maybe thousands of search and seizures. And yet you need a calculator. What about a pencil and paper?
A number of years ago I had a heroin case in Hayward. They had a warrant where the snitch, known, in polite terms, as a “confidential informant” with the obligatory history of reliability in past snitchings and who was a good citizen and such said there were two packages of heroin in a cereal box in my client’s kitchen. One weighed one pound and the other a half pound. Cops came in with a warrant and sure enough easily found the heroin and that’s what the packages weighed.
Me: So officer did you wait until you got to the station to do the weighing or did you use the scale that was there and which is now in evidence.
Cop: I used the scale there
Me: but that’s an Ohaus scale isn’t it
Cop: yes
Me: and it is graded in grams isn’t it
Cop: yes
Me: so you did the math in your head right
Cop: yes
Me: so how many grams are in a half pound
Cop: [absolute silence]
me: let me help you out here. Let’s say there are about 28 grams in an ounce. So how many grams in a half pound
Cop: [silence continues]
Me: ok. Let’s make it easier. Let’s say there are 16 ounces in a pound. So how many grams in a half pound [more silence – but now the jury is laughing]
Me: ok let me help you out a little more here. If a pound has 16 ounces how many ounces are in a half pound [more silence – juror yells out “8”. Jury laughs].
Me: look if there are 28 grams in an ounce and juror number 3 helped you out by telling you there were 8 ounces in a half pound, how many grams were in what you tell us was a half pound. Now I walk up to the bench and snatch a yellow pad and pencil. “May I, your honor.” Here officer. Here is a pad and pencil. Now write down 28. Remember that’s one gram. Now you learned from juror number 3 that there are 8 oz in a half pound so you simply take 28 and multiply by 8. OK, what’s the number. [very long painful silence]. DA, who is now a judge and was an especially vicious DA, asks for a recess. He comes over to me but trips over his big box of files [now jury is in hysterics].
By the way, my guy is on trial with his much younger cousin. Cousin is about to go to trial on a dead bang 4+ pound cocaine case. The DA says if they both take a year in county jail he’ll dump the cocaine case. I tell him “why should my guy do that. When the jury stops laughing this trial is over.” “But – but – but – his cousin is going to prison on the cocaine case.” “And?” “Mr Roberts you have an obligation to ask your client”. So I do. I explain the deal and tell him if he agrees to a year in county jail (at that time on a County year an inmate would do 8 months) and cuz’ does the same they will drop cousin’s state prison cocaine case. Remember I am talking to a supposedly scum bag cold-hearted heroin dealer. My defendant looks at me (I was expecting an “are you nuts?”) and says “sure, I can do a year in county standing on my head” and we take the deal. Now let’s hear how all heroin dealers are blood sucking monsters who would run over mom if it helped them. How about this: Many are people with an addiction they can’t kick and this is the only way they can survive.
Another example of what my friend William Panzer calls “cop math.”
A brief biography of Dennis Roberts
For a more detailed biography click here. For his law practice, see: http://www.dennisrobertslaw.com/
I spent the summer of ’63 as a law student, then 1964-1966 as a young attorney working with C. B. King in [Albany] All-Benny, Georgia. I returned after I graduated law school at U. C. Berkeley where my then wife started the Albany Georgia Nursery School with C. B.’s wife, Carol King. It was enormously successful as it provided Head Start with living proof that you could run an interracial school in the deep South.
We then moved to NY where I was the first staff employee of the Center for Constitutional Rights (Arthur Kinoy, Bill Kunstler, Morty Stavis) I was there for three years and we returned to Berkeley where I did all the pre-trial work with Michael Tigar in the Chicago 8 and Angela Davis cases.
Among many, many others, I also represented Dennis Banks and we fought Dennis’ case for 13 years to a very successful conclusion.
When you said, “my guy”, is where I stopped reading, Jay. Mow a connection’s the OC having no armed security for marijuana shops. Well, Stephen had a gun pulled on him in such a shop, and Stephen has the racism and the bigotry. It’s in the air, it’s in my blood. Don’t need no reason. Your guys are shooting the poor marijuana patients. Mine is a fair deal in Orange County. Just one of these let’s keep dance.
in the 4,000 kg I mentioned (hold down), this is the amount of precursors. The yield is 85 % for the hydriodic/red phosphorous, so, one mole at 220 gms of ephedrine, break it down, this is 0.85(171/221) moles cancel, you like meth. Guys, I just want to sleep and say, your eyes burn around the rims without the sleep.
Slippery slope, and when it comes fallin’, the size of the apparatus determined the ball park figures. 12 L produced 3,000 gms meth, but, another cook said he tippled in the starting material to 7 or 8 pounds per gallon. So, you guys try to. I learned. I’ll be checking.
Thinking proper then. I should get things tidy. They want to be up. Ss3s ya got me goin’.
Hi. There’s a link that’s so important;
Snitch Alert: Brandon Darby Will Be at RNC Filming Protesters with Former FTP Protester Cassandra Fairbanks.
So, Sabu as a weapon of FBI is a real mold, in the sense that FBI is recruiting an operative like Fairbanks to crush the left.
They made a monkey out of me before.
Come on, don’t leave people to be arrested for protesting (a legal right). Now there’s death.
Ginch is Hispanic. I already have a previous case of being robbed by my Hispanic landlady. Very distressing. I love catching the group HIGINIO. I like Hig’s action.
Plug her in that we are dominoes. Don’t knock them over.
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“You HAD 3”, base my captha. On your own, see why she REALLY does not contact Jeremy Hammond. It’s because he knows all about this snitch Darby.
Oh, my-my, goddammit. Here, the one I’m holding,
Although a security guard was standing nearby, he wasn’t armed. If he was, the victim says, the shooting would have never happened. “My guy would have plugged him,” he argued.
Santa Ana Police Offer $100,000 Reward For Identity of Marijuana Dispensary Shooter
Santa Ana Police Offer $100,000 Reward For Identity of Marijuana Dispensary Shooter
As is well-known from video they got caught by failing to notice, SAPD is on the wrong side of the law. I did meth with a retired detective, Daniel Beaumarchaise, and his friend Dennis Chambers, VHS class president, as we won a football game that we should not have.
That was not the attorney (I did not realize it was not jay Leiderman browbeating the witness. That’s a maneuver of Dennis Roberts).
uh, so it’s more his style. Hey, but the trunk for the experience has me a-focused on the envy I had for Jay. I always slip back into it. And then we’re cone.
That was only the victim’s vulgar statement. When marijuana shops open with guns, I’ll come down and bone ya. Do-do gigi get those chi-chis?
I hate victims. Shut up.
So no matter what you actually pay the cops will put a price per gram and say that is the value of the product? That does not make sense.
Suppose you are attempting to sell bricks.
Dennis is hilarious. Looking forward to more.
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I saw an article like this on Facebook a while back. If I can find it I’ll drop the link.
lol.
Good stuff. I don’t know know Dennis but he’s got good stories.
The Dennis Roberts articles are better than yours
You should publish more of these stories. We’re waiting.
Is this really how cops break down drug quantities? Seems that no one would by that.
FTP!
I didn’t know cops could do math.
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here was a recent documentary on the History Channel about DB Cooper and they said Robert Rackstraw was DB Cooper. Dennis Roberts was in the articles as his lawyer. Here are some links: http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_30118970/tv-investigation-links-santa-cruz-county-native-1971
These days, Rackstraw lives a quiet life aboard the 45-foot cruiser “Poverty Sucks” in a yacht harbor in San Diego Bay. In the History Channel program, Rackstraw denies being D.B. Cooper.
“He’s not D.B. Cooper,” said Rackstraw’s 78-year-old Oakland attorney, Dennis Roberts, on Monday. “Everything I’ve heard is that D.B. Cooper died, and he (Rackstraw) is alive.”
Roberts said that Rackstraw might have casually boasted that he was Cooper over the years because of his military career. Yet Roberts said that Rackstraw did not have the skills to parachute into an icy storm and survive.
Roberts said he’s considering filing a civil suit against the History Channel and the book’s authors, although he said he has not yet seen the programs nor read the book.
and: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/07/13/fbi-closes-case-on-d-b-cooper-skyjacking-mystery/
The FBI declined to comment about Rackstraw on Tuesday. Rackstraw’s former lawyer, Dennis Roberts, of Oakland, said the documentary’s allegations about his client were false.
“He’s not D.B. Cooper, but nobody wants to listen,” Roberts said. “It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
I like the Corvette / Hunter S. Thompson Story Better.
Leiderman can’t win a case. Check PACER.
Lulz! FTP.
The Rackstraw this is interesting. Can we get Dennis to tell that story?
Linking to the court case kinda gives away the secret judge, dontcha think?
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Here is the link to the History Channel show on DB Cooper.
http://www.history.com/shows/d-b-cooper-case-closed
Thanks for the links on Rackstraw! I want to hear Dennis’ version of the story!
Leiderman is a fame fag.
Stalker gets arrested for stalking! Rot in Hell, JoJo. You lost at life. Fucker! Fuck you, Sue Basko, too. You’re next. Crooked psycho narcissist co-conspirator. You gonna hide without your sociopath to protect you?
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JoJo Camp was arrested yesterday in Lakewood, Colorado. He is currently being held on numerous charges including displaying a deadly weapon, stalking, harassment, violating a restraining order, assault, and bribery.
JoJo, who hasn’t been out of jail much in recent years, made national headlines when he hacked a university computer network, fled the state, and then was apprehended while trying to sell the identities of thousands of students and faculty to an undercover FBI officer.
JoJo spent time in prison for the hacking and was released early only to be sent back to finish out his sentence after stalking and harassing a Florida lawyer and her child.
After being released a second time, JoJo continued his harassment of the lawyer and had a permanent restraining order put out against him last year. Naturally he chose to ignore the PRO but left New York and moved to Colorado.
JoJo attempted to start a business and a new life in Colorado in Mime related activities (yes, Mime) but wasn’t too successful. He was arrested early Tuesday morning after being set up by one of his victims. It appears he’s being held without bail.
Mr Camp was running as an independent candidate for Colorado House District 1. Let’s hope this arrest doesn’t interupt his campaign too much.
Susan Marie Basko Witchcraft, occult, psycho, crazy, harassment Chicago Illinois
Susan Marie Basko is an insane woman with a license to practice law in both California and Illinois, who believes in sub-contracting out to witches as a legitimate means of getting her way. Do you want someone like this representing you?
Sue contantly complains about her stalkers and the defamation they spew, yet she has been known to contact the employers and family members of people who get in her way. She will also lie incessantly about anyone she doesn’t like at the moment, in order to further her own agenda. She is also incredibly insensitive towards those who suffer from autism. Don’t trust this unmedicated psychopath with your case!
Lol, Dennis.