An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
No Dismissal!
Thank you Judge Antolini!!
A Sonoma County judge on Tuesday declined to dismiss charges against five men accused in the Matthew Toste murder case.
Defense attorneys contended that the five defendants were not properly arraigned on charges in the high-profile slaying case of Toste, who was shot in a downtown Santa Rosa parking garage in December 2006.
The suspects are Joseph Kenneth Lopez Jr., 19; his father, Joseph Kenneth Lopez Sr., 39; a cousin, Raul Lopez-Granados, 20; Paul Whiterock, 28; and Nicholas Mejia, 30.
They were indicted in early June following a secret grand jury proceeding that bypassed the normal charging process and the resulting public preliminary hearing stage.
On Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Lawrence “Gary” Antolini rejected defense arguments that the men were given only a truncated summary of charges in early June and did not receive a true copy of the indictment in its entirety until July. Names of several key witnesses also were withheld in the charging documents.
If ever I wanted to see anyone fry, it’s these five!
I’ve been going through a lot of pictures I’ve taken over the years, and found this one of Matthew from the mid 80s. I hope his mom won’t mind me posting it here. I want people to know this was a young man, a dad, a friend, with many people who loved him, and miss him something fierce. The world was better off for him being in it. The world won’t miss the human excrement that took his life!
