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Judge lets victims' kin sue S.F. over sanctuary
« on: September 15, 2009, 11:28:29 AM »
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Judge lets victims' kin sue S.F. over sanctuary

SAN FRANCISCO -- The family of a father and two sons who were slain in San Francisco last year can go to state court with a claim that the city is to blame for failing to turn their alleged killer over to immigration authorities when he was arrested earlier as a juvenile, a federal judge has ruled.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera had asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to rule on the claim herself after dismissing the rest of the suit last month by Tony Bologna's widow and daughter. But Illston said Friday that the remainder of the family's case - that the city's negligence caused the killings - belongs in Superior Court because it is based on state law and challenges San Francisco's policies.

Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were shot to death near their home in the Excelsior district in June 2008. Edwin Ramos, 22, is charged with murdering them.

Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors describe as a member of the MS-13 gang, was arrested twice as a juvenile, for an assault in October 2003 and an attempted purse-snatching in April 2004. Juvenile courts sent him to a shelter after the first incident and to the city-run Log Cabin Ranch in the Peninsula hills after the second.

Case records don't show whether police or juvenile courts knew that Ramos had entered the United States illegally. But under juvenile authorities' interpretation of the city's sanctuary policy at the time, they would not have passed that information along to federal immigration officials. Federal authorities learned of Ramos' status later but did not take him into custody for deportation proceedings.

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Re: Judge lets victims' kin sue S.F. over sanctuary
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2009, 04:57:45 PM »
If this is the same oxygen thief I'm thinking of, he's the turd that Colorado's governor let go, "catch and release" style after he pled out on a manslaughter charge here in the Denver area, back when Retard Ritter was just a county prosecutor. 

I hope Ritter is included in this fellow's lawsuit.
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