About a week after the DA's law-student intern had responded to my motion for court sanctions - record time for the DA's office - I received Officer Jackson's RADAR training records in a plump envelope, mailed first class.
The five pages of the response are below:
Cover Letter
Note that they conclude the letter by saying that I "now have all the documentary evidence prosecution intends to admit into evidence at trial." Just a few days later at the September 12 follow-up hearing, this assertion will prove false.
Officer Jackson's training records made for interesting reading:
Exam Answer Sheets
1996 Daily Activity Sheet and Radar Class Roster
Now, think back to their response to my sanction motion. They said that daily activity logs were not available, yet here we have a "TEU DAILY ACTIVITY SHEET" of the San Jose Police Department showing just that type of information. Maybe it was phased out sometime in the preceeding four years. Yeaaaah, that's the ticket!
And note the final grades on the class roster - I suspect that the only way you could not get a passing grade in this class is by not showing up, as Officer Quaile did. But then, this was before the days of police departments being sued for not hiring people who can't read English.
I looked for a section of the codes that might suggest how often an officer has to be re-certified in RADAR, but couldn't find anything substantive. As you can see by the date on the last page, Officer Jackson had taken this class over four years prior.
By the time I went in to the September 12
follow-up hearing, I had accumulated quite a stack of materials.
