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Zoellner v. City of Arcata May 2022 Update

on May 10, 2022

Zoellner v. City of Arcata

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Why Zoellner's Malicious Prosecution Claim was Allowed to Proceed

on April 27, 2022

Zoellner v. City of Arcata

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The Prosecution Argument from the 2017 Murder Case (Transcript)

on April 24, 2022

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The Defense Argument from the 2017 Murder Case (Transcript)

on April 24, 2022

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The Court's Dismissal of the Murder Charges in 2017 (Transcript)

on April 24, 2022

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Transcripts and Documents from the Murder Case

on April 15, 2022

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Zoellner v. City of Arcata March 2022 Update

on March 14, 2022

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Zoellner v. City of Arcata Documents

on March 10, 2022

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Arcata Police Investigation Review Documents

on March 10, 2022

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Background on the Homicide of David Josiah Lawson

on March 08, 2022

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Zoellner v. City of Arcata May 2022 Update

See the March 2022 update here for more background information. The Homicide Case This April marked the 5th anniversary of the homicide of Josiah Lawson. On the day of the anniversary, the Arcata Police Department sent out a request for more witnesses to come forward with the hope of returning the criminal case to court. Charmaine Lawson made a trip to Humboldt County and discussed the upcoming election for district attorney. She also reported that she had a scheduled date in mid April to meet with relatively new California Attorney General Rob Bonta with hopes that he would become involved in prosecuting the case. In 2019, the California Attorney General's office, under then Attorney General Xavier Becerra, declined to take over future prosecution of the case. Zoellner v. City of Arcata: As of now, the Zoellner v. City of Arcata case is set to for pretrial conference on June 14, 2022 and for trial starting July 11, 2022. The Defense counsel is scheduled to be in a separate tri

Transcripts and Documents from the Murder Case

Below are a selection of documents related to the Zoellner v City of Arcata civil case. All documents below were obtained via publicly available court records. Because these documents were obtained through publicly available means, there may be redactions or other changes within the document. Updates will be made here as the case continues. Updates List: 4/22/2022 Notes were added about Det. Dockweiler and Alex Begovic's testimony regarding the knife located at the homicide scene and the knives used by Zoellner in his employment. Renalyn Bobadilla testimony document name was changed to reflect that the document contains testimony from Renalyn Bobadilla, Elijah Chandler, Officer Jacob Mckenzie, Officer Kevin Nilsen, Detectives Eric Losey, Detective Todd Dockweiler and Alex Begovic as well as closing arguments. This document can be found below under the Transcripts from the Preliminary Hearing for Murder Charges Against Kyle Zoellner section. Documents Prepared by Arcata PD St

The Prosecution Argument from the 2017 Murder Case (Transcript)

The following is a copy of the transcript of the prosecution closing argument during the 2017 preliminary hearing for murder charges against Kyle Zoellner. This provides a summary of the prosecution's case against Zoellner at the time of the hearing. This is a written record of what was said in court and t he text is exactly as it was recorded by the court reporter during the proceedings. This document has been obtained through public court records. Mr. Rees: Your Honor, we would ask the Court to hold Mr. Zoellner to answer as charged. There's a lot of conflicting evidence in the case. It seems to be a confusing series of events that happened that night. But I think there are some -- from the -- each witness in this case had a slightly different vantage point. Each witness recalls and doesn't recall different things. But I think we can piece together what happened and establish for purposes of this hearing that probable cause exists to find the crime was committed and

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