Comments on: Lake County District Attorney and Police Department Covers Up Boating-related Manslaughter http://www.erikdj.com/2009/05/23/lake-county-district-attorney-and-police-department-covers-up-boating-related-manslaughter Read thoughts and stories important to my life. Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: BobMarche http://www.erikdj.com/2009/05/23/lake-county-district-attorney-and-police-department-covers-up-boating-related-manslaughter/comment-page-1#comment-50 BobMarche Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:20:23 +0000 http://www.erikdjones.com/?p=125#comment-50 Thanks for the useful info. It's so interesting Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

]]> By: Greg http://www.erikdj.com/2009/05/23/lake-county-district-attorney-and-police-department-covers-up-boating-related-manslaughter/comment-page-1#comment-46 Greg Tue, 26 May 2009 01:51:41 +0000 http://www.erikdjones.com/?p=125#comment-46 I am a registered forensic engineer and a licensed boat instructor. I have studied in detail the fatal boating accident between a sail boat and a speed boat on April 26, 2006 in Lake County. I have no personal interest in the parties involved. To make a long story short, based on Inland Maritime Law, the power boat driver, (Russell Perdock), is 100% at fault and the sail boat helmsman is 0% at fault. This is crystal clear. The District Attorney, Jon Hopkins and Russell Perdock, who is a chief deputy at the Lake County Sheriff's Office, have committed a far worse crime on top of this original crime. They used their positions of power and our tax money and the public trust to subvert the rule of law. Jon Hopkins did not charge the guilty party who happens to be his friend and instead charged a party who had nothing to do with the accident. It would be like someone murdering my wife and the district attorney charging me for the crime because I was in the house at the time! Of course this is the only way to let the guilty party off scot free. The causality is an innocent person gets his life ruined. I have herd of things like this occurring in China but we cannot allow it in our State. This crime is being committed by the very people we trust to protect us and they are using our precious resources to fund this crime. Deputy District Attorney David McKillop, whose position is funded by the new Office of Traffic Safety grant for prosecuting driving under the influence cases, is prosecuting the case, said Hopkins. Tom Clements, who recently retired from his position as a lieutenant with the Clearlake Police Department, is assisting McKillop as a part-time investigator, with the grant also funding Clements' position. I am a registered forensic engineer and a licensed boat instructor. I have studied in detail the fatal boating accident between a sail boat and a speed boat on April 26, 2006 in Lake County. I have no personal interest in the parties involved. To make a long story short, based on Inland Maritime Law, the power boat driver, (Russell Perdock), is 100% at fault and the sail boat helmsman is 0% at fault. This is crystal clear. The District Attorney, Jon Hopkins and Russell Perdock, who is a chief deputy at the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, have committed a far worse crime on top of this original crime. They used their positions of power and our tax money and the public trust to subvert the rule of law. Jon Hopkins did not charge the guilty party who happens to be his friend and instead charged a party who had nothing to do with the accident. It would be like someone murdering my wife and the district attorney charging me for the crime because I was in the house at the time! Of course this is the only way to let the guilty party off scot free. The causality is an innocent person gets his life ruined. I have herd of things like this occurring in China but we cannot allow it in our State. This crime is being committed by the very people we trust to protect us and they are using our precious resources to fund this crime.

Deputy District Attorney David McKillop, whose position is funded by the new Office of Traffic Safety grant for prosecuting driving under the influence cases, is prosecuting the case, said Hopkins. Tom Clements, who recently retired from his position as a lieutenant with the Clearlake Police Department, is assisting McKillop as a part-time investigator, with the grant also funding Clements’ position.

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