Matt Gonzalez told the Vanguard that he spoke to Knight prior to her story, “I said that Speaker there was nothing about this decision that is particularly controversial.”
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Gonzalez explained, “The Chronicle’s story suggested that she wanted to stipulate to the court, but that’s only her position after she took it to jury and failed to get the outcome (she wanted).”
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Gonzalez: “the story really was meant to mislead the public.”
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Gonzalez: “Having been in the criminal justice system now for 30 years, seeing cases handling cases I can assure you, this is not a controversial outcome for a case where both court appointed doctors found a determination of criminal insanity.”
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Gonzalez: “To find somebody with a different conclusion, just speaks to I think a desire to undermine justice – that’s the way I read Jenkins’ actions in this case.”
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Knight either omitted or misled on four critical points.
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First: She failed to note that two court appointed psyches determined that Guino was insane. And left out that Brooke Jenkins shopped for what Ilona Soloman called a "rent-an-expert" to find someone who thought otherwise.
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Second: She mischaracterized when the public defender submitted to the court’s judgment on the insanity.
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Third: she left out the fact that the family agreed that Gudino should be found insane and be confined to a mental hospital rather than a prison cell
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Finally: She critically mischaracterized when Boudin himself intervened.
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As Solomon concluded, “The result reached in my client’s case is the only just one, one that would have been uncontroversial and expected in any other prior administration, and Knight’s depiction of it has no place in respectable journalism.”
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As I said yesterday - you can believe whoever you want here - but the more important point is that .
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