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September 2, 2011
STEVEN LONELL PETE, PETITIONER,v.PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, RESPONDENT.
Petitioner initiated this action on July 13, 2011, by filing a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus ("Petition") pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The Petition challenges petitioner's 2000 conviction in the Riverside County Superior Court. On July 15, 2004, petitioner filed an earlier habeas petition in this Court, Case No. ED CV 04-871-RGK (PLA), in which petitioner challenged the same conviction. The 2004 petition was dismissed on the merits with prejudice pursuant to the Judgment entered on January 9, 2007.*fn1 (See Judgment in Case. No. ED CV 04-871-RGK (PLA)).
On July 15, 2011, the Magistrate Judge issued an Order to Show Cause Re: Dismissal of Successive Petition, in which petitioner was given until July 29, 2011, to show cause why the Petition should not be dismissed as successive. Subsequently, on August 10, 2011, petitioner filed a Request for Approval of Substitution of Attorney, which was granted by the Magistrate Judge, and petitioner is now currently represented by counsel. On August 26, 2011, petitioner through his counsel filed a Response to Order to Show Cause ("Response").
A habeas petition is second or successive if it raises claims that were or could have been adjudicated on their merits in a previous petition. McNabb v. Yates, 576 F.3d 1028, 1029 (9th Cir. 2009); see also Cooper v. Calderon, 274 F.3d 1270, 1273 (9th Cir. 2001) (per curiam). "A disposition is 'on the merits' if the district court either considers and rejects the claims or determines that the underlying claim will not be considered by a federal court." McNabb, 576 F.3d at 1029.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("the AEDPA") provides that a claim presented in a second or successive federal habeas petition that was not presented in a prior petition shall be dismissed unless:
(A) the applicant shows that the claim relies on a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable; or
(B)(i) the factual predicate for the claim could not have been discovered previously through the exercise of due diligence; and
(ii) the facts underlying the claim, if proven and viewed in light of the evidence as a whole, would be sufficient to establish by clear and convincing evidence that, but for constitutional error, no reasonable factfinder would have found the applicant guilty of the underlying offense.
28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A), (B).
Furthermore, "[b]efore a second or successive application . . . is filed in the district court, the applicant shall move in the appropriate court of appeals for an order authorizing the district court to consider the application." 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A).
In his 2004 federal habeas challenge, petitioner raised the following claims challenging his 2000 conviction: (1) petitioner's counsel rendered ineffective assistance for failing to timely object to the presentation of inadmissible evidence to the jury; (2) petitioner was deprived of his rights to due process and a fair trial because of the prosecutor's misconduct in presenting evidence to the jury that was inadmissible; (3) petitioner's counsel rendered ineffective assistance for failing to object to improper witness testimony; (4) petitioner's counsel rendered ineffective assistance for failing to object to, request an admonition for, or move for a mistrial due to the prosecutor's false insinuation that petitioner was involved in a prior homicide; (5) petitioner's counsel was ineffective for failing to request a modified version of CALJIC No. 2.05, and for failing to object to CALJIC No. 2.06; (6) petitioner's rights to due process, a fair trial, and effective assistance of counsel were violated by the admission of evidence concerning witness dissuasion; (7) petitioner's counsel was ineffective because he failed to pursue the most advantageous sentencing disposition; (8) petitioner's counsel was ineffective because he failed to request CALJIC No. 17.01; (9) petitioner's rights to due process and to a fair trial were violated by the prosecutor's misconduct in eliciting testimony that falsely implied petitioner was involved in a prior homicide; (10) petitioner's rights to due process and to a fair trial were violated by the admission of an inadmissible transcript; (11) the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury sua sponte that the jury had to agree unanimously on which act both the attempted murder and the corresponding special allegations were based, and alternatively, petitioner's counsel was ineffective for not requesting such an instruction; (12) the trial court failed to sua sponte give a unanimity instruction, and petitioner's counsel was ineffective for failing to request such an instruction; (13) the trial court violated California Penal Code § 654 in punishing petitioner for both attempted murder and robbery; (14) the use of CALJIC No. 17.41.1 deprived petitioner of his right to a unanimous jury; (15) petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to cumulative error; (16) the use of CALJIC Nos. 2.05 and 2.06 deprived petitioner of his rights to due process and to a fair trial; and (17) petitioner's right to present a defense was violated by the trial court's reversal of its decision to admit a defense exhibit. (See Report and Recommendation, entered on September 25, 2006, Case No. ED CV 04-871-RGK (PLA)). As mentioned above, the action was dismissed on the merits with prejudice. (See Order Adopting Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation and Judgment, both entered on January 9, 2007). Petitioner's subsequent requests for a certificate of appealability were denied by this Court on February 7, 2007, and by the Ninth Circuit on August 30, 2007.
In the instant Petition, petitioner again challenges his 2000 conviction, and asserts the following grounds for relief: (1) prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel concerning the presentation of an inadmissible tape recording; (2) the trial court erred by allowing into evidence transcripts which were inadmissible; (3) prosecutorial misconduct with respect to a witness examination; (4) instructional error for failing to instruct the jury that evidence of attempts by third parties to suppress evidence or dissuade witnesses could not be considered against petitioner unless petitioner authorized the conduct; (5) the trial court abused its discretion by admitting evidence that third parties attempted to suppress evidence or dissuade a witness from testifying, and trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the admission of this evidence; (6) ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to object to the victim's improper testimony; (7) petitioner was denied his right to present a defense by the exclusion of exculpatory evidence; (8) instructional error for instructing the jury with CALJIC No. 17.41.1; (9) sentencing error because the trial court, and not the jury, made factual findings to support the sentence enhancements; (10) petitioner's two 25 years-to-life sentences were improper; and (11) cumulative error. (Petition, Memorandum of Points and Authorities at 8-18).
In the July 15, 2011, Order to Show Cause, the Magistrate Judge advised petitioner that unless he submitted documentation showing that he had filed a motion in the Ninth Circuit for an order authorizing the District Court to consider a successive petition and that the Ninth Circuit issued such an order, the instant Petition would be dismissed without prejudice. In his Response, petitioner asserts that the instant Petition is not successive because "the issues alleged are not the same issues alleged in the prior Petition." (Response at 4). Nevertheless, in an apparent concession that he has not requested and received authorization to file a successive petition, petitioner requests that the Court, should it deem the instant Petition successive, transfer this matter to the Ninth Circuit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631 so that his claims "can be reviewed as soon as possible" in order "to determine the issue of authorization for a successive petition."
(Response at 6). According to petitioner, a transfer is necessary because it is in "the interest of justice to protect [his] liberty" and "to have his petition heard at the earliest date." (Id.).
Petitioner's argument that the instant Petition is not successive because it contains new claims is unavailing. As set forth above, a habeas petition is successive if it raises claims that could have been adjudicated on their merits in the prior petition. McNabb, 576 F.3d at 1029. Here, even if petitioner has raised different claims in the instant Petition, these claims -- which all relate to events that took place during his trial -- could have been raised in his prior Petition. Accordingly, given that the prior Petition was adjudicated on the merits and dismissed with prejudice, the instant Petition is successive.
Because petitioner has not presented any documentation showing that he has filed in the Ninth Circuit the requisite motion and received the requisite authorization to file a successive petition, the Court concludes that it is without jurisdiction to entertain the Petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b).*fn2 See Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147, 153, 127 S.Ct. 793, 166 L.Ed.2d 628 (2007) (AEDPA requires petitioner to receive authorization from the Court of Appeals before filing a second habeas petition); Cooper, 274 F.3d at 1274 ("'When the AEDPA is in play, the district court may not, in the absence of proper authorization from the court of appeals, consider a second or successive habeas application.'").
Where, as here, a district court finds that jurisdiction is lacking, it may dismiss the petition. See, e.g., Tripati v. Henman, 843 F.2d 1160, 1163 (9th Cir. 1988). Alternatively, a district court may transfer an action to another court in which the action could have been brought, "if it is in the interest of justice." 28 U.S.C. § 1631; Miller v. Hambrick, 905 F.2d 259, 262 (9th Cir. 1990).
In this case, the Court concludes that it is not in the interest of justice to transfer the instant action to the Ninth Circuit. Given that petitioner was convicted in 2000 and filed his prior Petition in 2004, and that it appears the factual predicate for the instant claims could have been ascertained prior to the time the 2004 Petition was filed, it does not appear that petitioner has acted with diligence as required under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b). See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i) (not allowing a successive petition unless the petitioner shows, inter alia, that the factual predicate for the claim could not have been discovered previously through the exercise of due diligence). Accordingly, given petitioner's lack of diligence, it does not seem likely that he would ultimately be granted permission to file a successive petition. Under these circumstances, the Court finds that a transfer is not appropriate, and that the instant Petition must be dismissed without prejudice.
It is hereby ORDERED that the Petition is dismissed without prejudice as successive.
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4G mobile broadband will knock out digital TV, Ofcom warn
4G MOBILE broadband is currently being hailed as one of the saviours of the superfast broadband revolution.
But yesterday Ofcom warned that the new 4G signals could cause constant interference for roughly 760,000 people watching free-to-air Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) services like Freeview.
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4G signals will be used by mobile networks to transmit higher quality phone and video calls but, more importantly, the newly designated frequencies will become a highway for the enormous amounts of mobile data which are now being consumed on a daily basis.
The space on the airwaves for 4G mobile broadband has come from the great analogue TV switch off, which ran on the 800 MHz band.
DTT runs on a frequency band which is right next to and slightly overlaps with the 800 MHz band earmarked for 4G.
Problems are likely to arise for people living in the vicinity of a future 4G mobile mast.
Those in the immediate area, around 30,000 according to Ofcom estimates, will be in the 'Overload Zone' and are likely to have to resort to satellite TV services such as Sky or Freesat to enjoy The Apprentice without seeing Alan Sugar's face turned into a mass of cubed scramble.
People within a larger radius known as the 'Degradation Zone' may encounter less severe mobile broadband induced interference and see their signal strength drop.
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Ofcom have proposed a number of possible solutions to try and combat these issues.
For a start, the regulator will include "technical conditions" in licences for spectrum use to closely monitor the parameters within which the networks should be operating.
However, that step will still leave the 760,000 households we mentioned earlier, those fairly close to a 4G mast, subject to interference.
For those households Ofcom's next step is a system of filters both at the base station level and within a household's own Digital TV receiver.
As we noted above, a smaller proportion very close to the 4G masts might have to opt out of DTT altogether.
That's worrying both to consumers and to networks who might find themselves bearing some of those costs.
Ofcom's report says that "the majority of the costs should be borne by the future 800 MHz licensees" but that will be subject to further consultation which might mean individual homes eventually have to stump up the cash to continue watching TV uninterrupted.
Another proposed solution is to reduce the power output of mobile base stations or masts.
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They say whoever you vote for, the government gets in. Certainly the time between celebrating Tory defeats in one general election and being told to shut up to avoid a Tory victory in the next one is very short. There has been little to celebrate in New Labour's second term: privatisation continues relentlessly in different disguises, tuition fees will be tripled, pensions are in crisis, and we are unable to extend trade union rights. We are told the economy is healthy and that unemployment is very low, but too many of the new jobs are transient, casualised and low-paid.
Not surprisingly, Labour Party membership is plummeting. There are valiant campaigns afoot to revive it, such as the Labour Representation Committee (see "Labour against neo-liberalism", on page 23 of the print magazine), but many disaffected voters are now vulnerable to the virus of fascism (see "Nul points for the BNP", page 24). And any victories for unions in the internal Labour Party political process have, so far, been defensive, failing to achieve real change in the party's direction.
We should have seen major progress on the skills agenda, but New Labour refuses to require firms to contribute to the training of their employees. This same deference to business is leading New Labour to dismantle health and safety legislation to an extent that Mrs Thatcher did not dare (See "Danger: people at work"). The government's support for the Iraq war and occupation has proved to be the last straw for many Labour loyalists. Now an assault led by Blair and Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on workers' rights in Europe is making it hard for even Europhile trade unionists to generate support for the proposed EU constitution.
In this political climate, trade unions, together with social and community movements, are playing an increasingly political role to create the impetus for change from below. Whether or not they are affiliated to the Labour Party, modern unions are recognising that they have to work in alliance with other trade unions, students, equality campaigns, international bodies, social movements, NGOs, and so on.
Indeed, it is from the social movements that the new generation of trade-union activists is likely to emerge. This is already happening, and not just at the national level, but internationally (witness the trade-union movement's support for the European Social Forum) and locally (see the rebirth of community trade unionism), too. The workplace-safety Hazards campaign, a lasting and growing product of connections established between social movements, intellectuals and trade unions in the 1970s (see "Danger: people at work"), is exemplary of the radical but practical kind of trade unionism required.
Similarly, the role unions can play in confronting fascism is critical. In "Nul points for the BNP" two union-backed organisations - the magazine Searchlight and the coalition to get out the anti-fascist vote Unite Against Fascism - present differing assessments of how to take on the British National Party (BNP): Searchlight editor Nick Lowles explains the magazine's emphasis on local campaigning among the communities to whom the BNP is making its appeal; Unite Against Fascism demonstrates the importance of developing a national campaign and appealing to young people. The two approaches can be seen as complementary, and the BNP would have done much better in June's local and European elections without them. Through supporting both, unions released political energy and resources for a social movement without throttling its spontaneity.
The Stop the War Coalition mobilised the largest demonstrations the UK has ever seen, but we are now moving into a new phase of campaigning, which involves unions building solidarity with the labour movement in Iraq. The Natfhe motion to this month's TUC conference calls for an end to the occupation, urges support for the country's newly emerging free trade union and women's movements, and encourages twinning, material support and other help as the Iraqis form their own resistance to the privatisation of their country.
Across the Atlantic, the growing US Labor Against The War movement has linked opposition to the occupation with the reasons for removing Bush, stressing that the promotion of corporate interests and the attacks on workers' rights in Iraq are part of the same process that is causing suffering to the US poor. The response to Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 illustrates the unease among ordinary Americans that is well captured in "GIs against the war".
All these issues will be central to the debates on how to build another Europe as part of a better world when the European Social Forum comes to London in October. Be there.
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Skip to comments.Puerto Rico: The Next Detroit? (Downgraded and out of options)
Posted on 02/07/2014 8:32:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Tuesday, credit ratings agency Standard & Poors downgraded Puerto Ricos general-obligation bonds to BB+, a level that is considered junk status. Similar action by rating agencies Moodys and Fitch appears virtually certain, as the island territory copes with a staggering $70 billion of debt, all of which needs to be repaid with interest. Unfortunately, Puerto Rico has been in what amounts to a continuous recession since 2006, and its economy is currently shrinking at a 6 percent pace. The official unemployment rate is 14.7 percent, and its debt-to-GDP ratio is 93 percent.
Furthermore, the island is experiencing the largest population outflow since the 1950s, when 500,000 residents left for better job prospects on the U.S. mainland. Between, 2010 and 2012 the commonwealth lost 54,000 residents, and another 36,000 from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2013. The percentage of decline is more than seven times the decline of second-ranked West Virginia.
Working-age Puerto Ricans who leave are being replaced largely by retirees highly unlikely to provide anything resembling the economic boost Puerto Rico so desperately needs. The vicious cycle has left the territory with a woeful workforce participation rate: only 41 percent of working age Puerto Ricans have a job or are looking for one.
Exacerbating this trend is the reality that only half of Puerto Ricans over age 25 have graduated from high school, and only twenty-five percent of those graduates earn a bachelor's degree. The homicide rate is six times the nation average. Moreover, since the U.S. dollar is Puerto Rico's currency, the option of devaluation as a means of making the island more attractive to outside investment remains off the table.
Puerto Rico's troubles have unknown implications for the municipal bond market. According to the independent investment research firm Morningstar, the island territory's debt is held by about 70 percent of U.S. municipal mutual funds. Those bonds have been attractive to many investors, as the yield on them have increased right along with the soaring debt that engendered that increase. Also their earnings remain free from state and federal taxes, and Puerto Ricos constitution provides bondholders with strong guarantees that they would be paid off before pensioners and public workers if the government defaulted.
Nevertheless, high risk accompanies high interest rates, and as of now it appears that bondholders will be taking substantial losses.
Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro Javier Garcia Padilla has been determined to restore growth, and ran on a platform of creating 50,000 jobs. Toward that end, his government is in the process of offering manufacturers tax incentives and electricity tax credits, with the latter effort aimed at enticing firms that might otherwise be dissuaded by the island's sky high rates, which are double those on the mainland. Government officials are also making an effort to boost tourism, and they are currently searching for someone to handle a $300 million port project to handle larger ships that will be en route to an expanded Panama Canal.
Despite these efforts, Padilla's top priority remains bringing the debt under control. He has continued the government job cuts begun by his predecessor, and the combined cuts have culled one-in-ten government jobs. Many of the remaining workers have been switched from traditional pensions to 401(k)s. Padilla also enacted a monumental tax increase of $1.3 billion, comprised of corporate taxes, sales taxes and a gross receipts tax.
The results have been fairly dramatic. The reforms have put the government on a path to possibly reduce 2013′s estimated $2.2 billion budget deficit this year, with the idea of eliminating budget deficits entirely by 2016.
Unfortunately, it may be too little too late. Government workers still comprise a quarter of the island's workforce, compared to the U.S. average of 16 percent. Moreover, the government faces an additional $37 billion in unfunded pension obligations on top of the $70 billion in outstanding debt. This has led inexorably to the higher interest rates Puerto Rico must pay on its debt obligations, as the commonwealth continues to fund its day-to-day operations with borrowed money. You cannot pay daily expenses with your credit card, and thats what Puerto Rico has been doing for years, said Deepak Lamba-Nieves, research director of the Center for a New Economy, a San Juan think tank. We borrowed just to keep the lights on.
That borrowing, a combination of bonds issued by the government and private corporations, including authorities for water and sewer, as well as highways and electric power, led to a tripling of Puerto Rico's debt since 2000. Successive administrations on the island used the bond market to plug budget holes, a process that ramped into high gear during the economic slowdown. In 2006, deficits were exacerbated by the phasing out of a tax credit for manufacturers, and a housing bust that eliminated three of the island's banks. That bust left many residents handling a personal debt crises similar to the one afflicting the government.
For many decades, a combination of low-cost labor and favorable tax laws had led many manufacturers to set up shop on the island, led by shoe factories and textile mills, and followed by drug manufacturers. The former group moved to more promising business locations, followed by the drug companies downsizing their output due a series of patent expirations. the one-two punch led to a precipitous decline in factory jobs from 160,000 to 75,000 since 1996.
As a result, more and more Puerto Ricans have come to rely on government for their survival, with a third of the population receiving food stamps. Residents are also twice as likely to receive Social Security disability benefits than their mainland counterparts.
The Standard & Poor downgrade reflects all of this depressing reality. "Puerto Rico has limited liquidity without access to the debt market by either GDB (Government Development Bank) or directly by the Commonwealth for sizable amounts of debt," the agency said. "In our view, there is little margin for error over the next two years." There was a smidgen of upbeat news as S&P recognized the government's progress regarding spending cuts. "We view the reform as significant and could contribute to a sustainable path to fiscal stability," the agency said, explaining that was the reason the commonwealth didn't get a lower rating.
Yet the future remains murky. The full implications of this downgrade are a real unknown, said Matt Fabian, managing director of Municipal Market Advisors, a firm that tracks the municipal bond market. How will bondholders react? he wondered.
It is more complicated than that. There is no chapter in the bankruptcy code that pertains to Puerto Rico, and absent that code it remains to be seen how a likely plethora of court cases revolving around sovereign immunity, and the contractual rights of bondholders, will be adjudicated. A bailout might help, but the U.S. government has already given Puerto Rico a back-door — and constitutionally dubious – bailout. The move, worth nearly $2 billion per year, was accomplished by allowing U.S. multinationals operating on the island to credit taxes paid to Puerto Rico on their federal tax bill. Yet it hasn't done much to alter the island's financial trajectory, and anything formal would likely be politically toxic for the same Obama administration that has allowed Detroit to endure the trials and tribulations of bankruptcy largely on its own.
The coming weeks will give a clearer indication of where Puerto Rico is ultimately headed. The government still needs to come to the bond market for financing on debt already accumulated. That would be a $3.7 trillion bond market already shaken by Detroit's default.
Yet the government will push on. While we are disappointed with Standard & Poors decision, we remain committed to the implementation of our fiscal and economic development plans, said Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta Febo and GDB president David H. Chafey, in a written statement. "We believe the investment community will recognize the positive impact of the reforms that the Garcia Padilla Administration has enacted in due course. Or, much like Detroit, the investment community might conclude additional financing no longer makes any sense. Only time will tell — but time is growing short.
But I hear the beaches and golf are better than Detroit's.
"O" will make them a state of the union... then WE can pick up the tab for them TOO.
Puerto Rico has a much nicer climate and a more pleasant native culture.
PR is a beautiful but poor island.
Drugs from South America are not helping the situation.
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Yes. I've been to PR a few times. But it suffers from comparatively high prices relative to other destinations in the Caribbean. The Dominican is a better deal, for example.
My travel agent recently booked me on a seven-night trip to Puerto Rico. No days, just seven nights in Puerto Rico.
I asked him, "What do I do during the day."
He said, "I don't care what you do, just stay out of Puerto Rico."
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It takes a lot of effort and talent to create and maintain a First World civilization. No everyone can do it.
I question how much longer we'll be able to do it.
You're welcome. I have several close friends from Puerto Rico. Most of them visit there at least annually. One tried to sell me her house in PR, but it wasn't nearly big enough for my family to vacation there!
So let's make this basket case the next State?
Then maybe Haiti?
And maybe any other total financial basket cases.
It's beautiful and the people are wonderful.
I was stationed at Vieques in the late 50's. As told, it was beautiful, loved the people, great bars, great music, but killer mosquitoes. Semper Fi
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They had a free market minded Governor in Luis Fortuno who had turned the tide in Puerto Rico. It took some serious belt tightening, but it was working. Of course, they voted out, so too friggin bad on them.
We can rebuild our civilization. We just have to throw off the people that are holding us back.
Detroit has awesome beaches...they're walking right down Eight Mile...I occasionally see them from my office window.
Oh wait, you said BEACHES, not bitch#s. Nevermind.
Don't they have some car rims lying around they can fence?
Used to spend time in Puerto Rico on business many years ago. Outside of the tourist trap area in San Juan and some beach resorts, the island was dirt poor. Great weather, nice people, and pineapples picked ripe (so much better than available here) are my main memories, but abject poverty was everywhere. Companies built product in PR back in the day because of tax breaks and relatively low wages, wonder how many are still there.
Import the Third World, become the Third World. Time for us to cut Puerto Rico loose, curtail all Third World immigration, and end the infestation.
Beautiful Third World WELFARE DEPENDANTS. If only we could deport the mongreloid butts of the descendants here on the mainland, who remain a drain on our nation like every other group of third world immigrants.
PRs are a Third World people, the majority of whom use the WIC card to buy groceries. Time to cut them off.
The people I met were employed. They were not on welfare.
We should no longer tolerate a Third World island as part of our Republic. Cut them off.
Perhaps you might consider reading my original post.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Less than a year after Kash n' Karry discontinued a company owned and operated video rental program, the retailer has put in 12 racked, revenue-share departments. The 12th Trader Bay section opened last month in a new 36,000-square-foot store in Brandon, Fla., and more are being considered, said Ron Dennis, president of the chain.
"Video rental is a viable market and a big business," said Dennis. "It can capitalize on one-stop shopping. Where we have the options in space, we are looking to expand the departments." The first department was installed in February, Dennis said. The small live departments occupy 300 square feet of floor space, containing 1,500 to 1,600 titles, he said. They are positioned up front near the service counter.
The departments are serviced by Home Cinema, St. Petersburg, Fla., a company owned by John Colinda. At one time, Colinda supplied Albertson's rental sections in the Florida division and he owns several video specialty stores in the Tampa Bay area, said local sources. Colinda did not return calls for comment.
So far, the new rental departments "are doing very well," said Dennis, a former divisional vice president with Boise, Idaho-based Albertson's. "Having come from Albertson's, where video rental was a success, I felt it was a category we should be in," Dennis said.
Kash n' Karry plans to expand the video rental program to other stores, although Dennis declined to provide any further details. "We're exploring all opportunities because video rental is a viable option that I think we can do a better job of serving the customer with," he said.
Video industry sources said the retailer's original plan was to put in 20 rental departments. The chain has 100 stores and had 60 in-line rental departments until it ended its in-house program last fall. The old nonlive departments ranged from 48 to 60 linear feet with as many as 2,000 rental units per store.
Last summer, Bob Highsmith, Kash n' Karry's vice president of sales and marketing, told SN that the chain could get a better payback out of using the space for other products. He also said competition from big specialty stores and the cost of remodeling the departments was a factor in the decision to get out of rentals.
The retailer stayed in the video sell-through business, primarily with the big event titles, like "Space Jam" and "Hunchback of Notre Dame." However, when SN visited several Kash n' Karry stores in March, sell-through merchandising was constrained by concerns about shrink, according to store personnel and other local observers. At the time, SN found Albertson's to be the leader among Tampa Bay area supermarkets in sell-through merchandising and in video rental activity.


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STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,v.LUIS GUIRACOCHA, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
On appeal from Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Bergen County, Indictment No. 05-09-1765.
Submitted June 27, 2007
Before Judges Skillman and King.
Defendant was indicted for criminal sexual contact, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:14-3b, and endangering the welfare of a child, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4a. Defendant entered into a plea bargain under which he agreed to plead guilty to the criminal sexual contact charge and the State agreed to dismiss the endangering the welfare of a child charge and to recommend a probationary sentence under which defendant would serve no jail time. The trial court found an adequate factual basis for the plea and sentenced defendant in accordance with the plea bargain to three years probation. The court dismissed the endangering the welfare of a child charge.
Following initiation of deportation proceedings, defendant filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Defendant claimed that he did not provide an adequate factual basis for the plea and that the offense he committed was an act of lewdness, not criminal sexual contact.
After hearing argument, the trial court denied defendant's motion. Defendant appeals from the order memorializing this ruling. Defendant argues that he did not provide an adequate factual basis for his plea and that it therefore must be vacated.
Under Rule 3:9-2, before accepting a guilty plea, a court must satisfy itself "by inquiring of the defendant and others, in the court's discretion, that there is a factual basis for the plea[.]" See State in the Interest of T.M., 166 N.J. 319, 325-27 (2001). Although it is preferable for such a factual basis to be obtained without leading questions, our courts have recognized that such questioning may be necessary for a defendant to admit "the distasteful reality that makes the charged conduct [on which a sexual offense charge is based] criminal." State v. Smullen, 118 N.J. 408, 415 (1990). "[T]he defendant's admission or acknowledgment [of guilt] may be understood in light of all surrounding circumstances," including other evidence of the offense. State v. Sanz, 107 N.J. 283, 293 (1987); see also T.M., supra, 166 N.J. at 327.
The offense of which defendant pled guilty is a violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:14-3b, which provides:
An actor is guilty of criminal sexual contact if he commits an act of sexual contact with the victim under any of the circumstances set forth in section 2C:14-2c.
(1) through (4).
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[A]n intentional touching by the victim or actor, either directly or through clothing, of the victim's or actor's intimate parts for the purpose of degrading or humiliating the victim or sexually arousing or sexually gratifying the actor. Sexual contact of the actor with himself must be in view of the victim whom the actor knows to be present[.]
One of the "circumstances set forth in [N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2c]" is that "[t]he victim is at least 13 but less than 16 years old and the actor is at least four years older than the victim" N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2c(4).
The victim in this case was fifteen, and defendant is more than four years older than her. The victim gave the following description of the offense in her statement to the police:
Q: Jillian, at approximately 9:20 in the morning on October 14, 2004, you reported an incident to the Bergen County Police. Would you tell me in your own words what took place?
A: I left my house and went to the bus stop, it was around 7:30. A gray silverfish car pulled up to where I was standing and when I glanced to see why he was there so long I realized that he was masturbating. When he noticed that I noticed him, he pulled away and turned the corner. Five minutes later he came back around and did the same thing.
Q: When he came back around, did he park his car near where you were standing?
A: Yes. Right in front of me.
Q: Do you know if he saw you standing there?
A: He was right in front of me and he was looking at me.
Defendant corroborated the victim's version of the offense in providing a factual basis for his plea to the trial court:
Q: Okay. And you're charged that on October 14th, 2004, that you were on Hudson Street in Hackensack --
A: Yes.
Q: -- that you were driving your car; that you stopped your car where there were some girls standing nearby. Is that correct?
Q: And you had your -- your pants opened and your private part exposed.
Q: And you had your hand on your private part at the -- at the time the girls were looking into the car while you had the car stopped.
Q: All right. Just so that we clarified it. You're talking about the penis.
A: Uh-huh.
Q: The penis that you're -- the private parts. I use that word, but the -- let's clarify it --
A: Yes, I touched it.
Q: You had your penis out and you had your hand on the penis while the girls were standing there looking in the car. Is that correct?
Q: On October 14th, 2004, you were in your car on Hudson Street in Hackensack. You stopped the car, and you exposed yourself.
Q: And you had your penis, your private parts, your penis, sticking out --
Q: -- and there was a girl on the corner that was looking at you, whom you found out through the discovery was only fifteen years of age.
Q: And that you had your hand on your penis while she was looking at you, for the purpose -- because -- because it made you feel good and you wanted to gratify yourself sexually.
Although the factual basis for defendant's plea was obtained partly by leading questions, we are satisfied that, considered in light of the victim's statement, it was adequate.
Defendant's other arguments, which are not presented under separate point headings, see R. 2:6-2(a)(5), are clearly without merit. R. 2:11-3(e)(2).
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