There are stupid crooks and Bob Walsh has written about one of them, but it would be a mistake to think that all criminals are stupid. My experience as a narc has shown that many of them are very smart and clever and it would be a mistake for cops to underestimate them.
BE THANKFUL FOR STUPID CRIMINALS
By Bob Walsh
PacoVilla’s Corrections blog
December 26, 2009
This time of year there are many things to be thankful for. Among them are stupid criminals. REALLY stupid criminals.
Daniel Elizade, 20, formerly of the City and County of San Francisco, is one stupid sonofabitch and is now doing 15 to life to prove it.
Three years ago at Lisbon and Persia in San Francisco Daniel shot and killed Karl Bartolome, who was at the time walking down the street minding his own business in the company of his girlfriend and 5-year old niece. He had a history with Danny boy. In fact Bartolome had (allegedly) thumped Elizade pretty good at some time previous. At the time of the shooting Elizade was drunk, which didn't help matters. It wasn't hard to find him after the shooting, he had gone to high school with Bartolome's girlfriend and she IDd him for the cops.
So the cops gaffle up Elizade. After his arrest Elizade, who was 17 at the time, asks to speak to his mommie. The Inspector loans Danny the moron his cell phone and leaves the room. At that time Danny the moron calls a road dog to put a hit on the girlfriend. Of course this whole thing is on tape.
Danny the moron plead out to second degree murder, but challenged the admission of the tape. The First District Court of Appeals in S. F. ruled that Danny had no reasonable expectation in an interview room of the police station and pointed out that the cops had not wiretapped him, they had only recorded his end of the conversation with a room microphone. His appeal was based on a claimed violation of state and federal wiretap laws. The ruling was 3-0 against the moron.
Sometimes sanity wins, even in the People's Republic of San Francisco.
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