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Everyone here in the Bay Area is furious. To be clear, this isn't the prosecutor. This is the judge.
https://abc7news.com/sf-woman-stabbed-daniel-cauich-san-francisco-attempted-murder-94-year-old-ahn-peng-taylor/14558878/
They were joined by Jenkins and San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey.
"If there is no accountability for the people who attack them, if we don't have adequate consequences for that behavior, it will continue," Jenkins said.
Public safety advocates say they are demanding courts end the release of violent repeat offenders and restore public safety on the streets of San Francisco.
harumph
(1,917 posts)"Mr. Cauich acted when he was in a mental health crisis, homeless, abusing substance, victim of a hit and run. SFDA prosecutors did not provide him with adequate services. Mental health deteriorated. When he attacked Ms. Taylor, he didn't know what he was doing. Attorneys had to tell him that he stabbed someone. When he was showed the video, Cauich sobbed. Mr. Cauich did not act out of hatred -- not a case of racial hatred," said Cauich's attorney, Lisa Dewberry in a statement.
If what Cauich's attorney says is true, then the state failed by not providing him with health services for his condition. A crazy person
crazy at the time of the crime cannot be held to the same standard.
NH Ethylene
(30,817 posts)Zeitghost
(3,873 posts)If your mental state is such that you stab people when you have an episode, you are a danger to the public and need institutional help in a facility that can manage your violence. Not out on the street trying to get clean with some help.
soldierant
(6,938 posts)given that SF recalled Chesa Boudin. I am betting Boudin wold have provided those seevices.
NH Ethylene
(30,817 posts)During the probation period, he will be in a strict behavioral and mental health treatment program, under close supervision.
"Mr. Cauich acted when he was in a mental health crisis, homeless, abusing substance, victim of a hit and run. SFDA prosecutors did not provide him with adequate services. Mental health deteriorated. When he attacked Ms. Taylor, he didn't know what he was doing. Attorneys had to tell him that he stabbed someone. When he was showed the video, Cauich sobbed. Mr. Cauich did not act out of hatred -- not a case of racial hatred," said Cauich's attorney, Lisa Dewberry in a statement.
Sympthsical
(9,132 posts)The offenders keep being the "real victims" here.
Weird how that keeps working out like that.
JustAnotherGen
(31,935 posts)ripcord
(5,553 posts)The judge, Kay Tsenin, read the sentence and said that Cauich can avoid jail time but is required to enter probation and a strict behavioral and mental health treatment program, which means he will be under intensive supervision in a facility with limited freedom until he successfully finishes the program.
The court combined the attack and another burglary case for this sentence.
A program called the Intensive Supervision Courtintended for high-risk probationers as an alternative to state prisonwill decide later what specific programs Cauich will undergo. If he violates any probation rules, he will be sent to prison.
I am giving you one last chance to stay out of state prison, Tsenin said to Cauich during the hearing.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/15/san-francisco-asian-94-year-old-grandma-stabbing-attack/
Sympthsical
(9,132 posts)I read the facts before posting the article. The guy has a rap sheet a mile long. He was previously arrested for murder, and they had to let him go. Assuming he completes the program, he'll be back on the streets.
But hey, more chances. Fuck the Asian grandma he almost killed. Tough for her, I guess.
The AAPI community keeps seeing "tough for our elders" in the Bay Area. It's weird how it keeps happening.
At least Brooke Jenkins knew the score.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Just some 94-year-old Asian woman
The outcry about last week's stabbing is likely to continue, with Cauich being the latest allegedly violent suspect with an extensive rap sheet in San Francisco to be implicated in a new crime after being freed from jail. In Cauich's case, all of his most recent charges were burglary-related, and his most recent arrest in May came just over a month after his release from a 100-day stint in jail. Court records obtained by SFist suggest that he'd been required to seek outpatient treatment for unknown substance-abuse issues.
But the charges against him in 2016 were much more serious, and we're just now getting a clearer picture of what happened in that case that led to the 2019 release of both Cauich brothers and the dismissal of their charges.
55-year-old Larry Peevey was killed at the 16th and Mission BART plaza on June 5, 2016. Daniel and his brother Header Couch, along with another man, Jose Poot, were arrested and all three charged in Peevey's murder. As the Examiner reported at the time, Peevey was killed with two knives and a hatchet and police had grainy surveillance video of the crime.
https://sfist.com/2021/06/21/suspect-in-stabbing-of-94-year-old-woman-had-2016-murder-charges-dismissed-due-to-miranda-issue/
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)He should be in a controlled environment. Call it a prison if you like.
summer_in_TX
(2,762 posts)If he's been sentenced to probation, that sounds like the final adjudication.
So why does it say,
and later it ends with this,
A new court date has not been set yet.
I didn't read about any appeal in the article and can the prosecution appeal, anyway?
IcyPeas
(21,915 posts)Seems to work.