Posted by True Blue, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood, on Mar 21, 2010 at 12:37 am

Has it really come to this.

I attended Mr. Buckheit's Factual Innocence Hearing at the county court house last fall.

In 2008 he dialed 911 to bring the Police to HIS home for assistance over a bad break up that was escalating beyond his control.

The officers arrested Mr. Buckheit (the home owner), who they found bleeding and waiting for them at the front door-Instead of help, he got the hand cuffs, jail, bail...all of that.

They wouldn't let him back into his house for a week.

APD wouldn't give him a copy of his police report (a public record and basic constitutional right. He has to sue to get a copy (one year and a lot of money) He wins the suit.

With his police report finally in hand and for even more time and money-he pursues a very RARE hearing for Factual Innocence, which he also wins in full from the judge ( this was the forth such Finding in the entire history of San Mateo County!! The judge states that he is "deeply disturbed" by the APD's behavior.

In the coarse of hearing- officers testify that the police report has been altered--no night desk sergeant was even on duty that night .....you name it......

The City Manager refuses to take Buckheit's calls- or to meet with him. The City Attorney's excuse is that she is waiting for ABAG to tell what to do.

Frustrated and desperate, our new neighbor Buckheit decides that while he is waiting for

the new city "ADMINISTRATORS LEARNING CURVE" to develop Maybe he should talk to someone on the Town Council.

Enter--CHARLES MARSALA

While councilman Marsala is deeply concerned about Jon Buckheit's plight,he is experiencing difficulties of his own--a problem that 500,000 would resolve and make Charles more available to focus on service to his community.

Even if you are not wondering if this whole thing might have been planned as a shakedown,

Does any one really believe that Charles would have paid the money back?

I have a couple of three dollar bills that Charles can keep forever.

Posted by Disgusting, reprehensible, awful..., a resident of the Menlo Park: Fair Oaks neighborhood, on Mar 21, 2010 at 12:59 am

The article in the Daily News was much better, and had the emails. I just saw a TV commercial indicating Rod Balgojevich will be on Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump. If Marsala resigns now, they might be able to fit him in. How does stuff like this happen? What a piece of work!

Posted by spectator, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood, on Mar 21, 2010 at 9:39 am

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Posted by resident, a resident of the Atherton: West of Alameda neighborhood, on Mar 21, 2010 at 10:03 am

We need mr. Carpenter to save the day ! We don't need a police oversight committee, we need a whole town of Atherton over sight

committee..Maybe we should annex with another community ! I cannot believe that a small town like Atherton has big city problems, LA &

NYC can't touch us.