Los Angeles, CA Is the prosecution guilty of ethics violations in the Jamiel Shaw murder case? Full Disclosure Network® presents an eight minute Video News Blog featuring family members of murdered high school football star, Jamiel Shaw, II who was gunned down just three doors from his home. Police have arrested Pedro Espinosa, an illegal alien gangbanger who was released early from L.A. County jail after serving four months for weapons charges and assault on a police officer.
Appearing in the video are the victim’s aunt Althea Shaw and father Jamiel Shaw,Sr. describing why the family members have filed an Ethics Complaint with the State Bar and District Attorney's Office against the Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Michele Hannisee. Also providing background on the State Bar complaint process is former Co-Chair of the State Bar Disciplinary Committee Deputy D A Steve Ipsen.
A few days prior to his re-election, District Attorney Steve Cooley removed the Deputy DA Michele Hanisee from the case. This also followed Mr. Shaw Sr.’s appearance on radio talk shows to expose the fact that she had been pressuring the family to stop speaking out against LAPD’s Special Order 40, “the don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prevents police officers from asking individuals if they are in the country legally and Mr. Shaw said she told them she was going to describe the victim as a gangbanger because she needed a motive for the murder. According to law enforcement authorities Jamiel Shaw, II had no police record, never been arrested and has never had contact with school police or been suspended from school.
This Video News Blog on the Shaw’s complaint is also featured on the YouTube Channel along with other videos that are available for sharing. Full Disclosure® will be providing periodic updates on the case and following the progress on the “Jamiel’s Law” campaign to revise Special Order 40.
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Melissa Gonzalez Lancaster, Ca
Posted: 12:29 pm [PST] on October 30 2008
I to am being pressured to testify against my husband by Los Angeles District Attorney Johne B. Evans he said if I don't testify he would take my children to foster care not with family members as well as filing charges against me for purgery in which I never testified or wrote anything under penalty of purgery but if your low income you really don't have any options but to go along with there threats. Now my children will be with out a father as I a husband. The D.A also told me he doesn't care about my family problems that they are mine and he see's this stuff all the time. Is'nt he supposed to represent the people not treat us like dirt.
Doc Plaisance NoHo
Posted: 10:42 pm [PST] on July 21 2008
This is unfathomable. This city has has sold its soul. Politicians who lick their fingers to guage the direction of the wind and hide their heads in the sand are at the bottom of the totem pole, yet your typical leader in L. A. They have become indifferent to the people they serve. And it's only going to get worse since most Angelinos are spineless and won't take a stand on this issue. How cowardly can you be to allow an illegal element to influence your decision making? Pathetic.
greg chatman los angeles
Posted: 11:22 am [PST] on July 13 2008
this been going for years,it's just now coming to light.
Potts Van Nuys
Posted: 05:20 pm [PST] on July 01 2008
I believe Special Order 40, was not intended to keep the LAPD from working with the INS or hinder them from reporting violators, instead it allowed police officers to focus on gathering needed information for investigative purposes from individuals, including illegal aliens and gang members who may be reluctant to speak to law enforcement for fear of deportation due to their immigration status. To serve a greater good, law enforcement's Special Order 40 has sort of, made a deal with the devil (gang members).
Whitebread Senior Citizen Tucson, AZ
Posted: 12:41 pm [PST] on June 20 2008
Let's see: four months is total time served for weapons charges, assault on a police officer AND, THIS MURDERING BASTARD IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY. Way to go, California. And the system plays CYA by going after the victim? Wake up out there in La-La Land. America is sick of your kind of "non-thinking" solutions to gut wrenching problems. Jamiel Shaw has paid the ultimate sacrifice for America's stupidy and we will not allow him to be further victimized!!! You rotten low down.....
Patrick Jones San Dimas
Posted: 11:03 am [PST] on June 20 2008
It appears to me that young Jamiel Shaw is being targeted a second time because of the color of his skin -- first by an illegal alien gang member and again by a government-paid protector of illegal aliens. This sort of thing is to be expected from an attorney for the accused, but a prosecutor literally threatening to make the victim the accused as well goes beyond the boundaries of human decency.
I think the underlying message from the so-called "prosecutor" to the Shaw family was that it would be easy to sell the notion that young Jamiel was a gang member because he's black and because of where he lived, so the Shaws had just better back down on their criticism of Sp. Order 40 or see their lost loved one's memory -- which is all they have left -- publicly defiled.
I think it also deserves acknowledgement that the Shaws clearly possess uncommon courage. May God bless them.
William Schmitz Philadelphia
Posted: 07:01 pm [PST] on June 18 2008
over 48,000 Americans killed by ILLEGALS since 2000....My heart goes out to Mr, Shaw and his family...I lost a cousin to gangbangers in Phila in 2006...It seems our government has perpetuated(and continues to do so) an illegal invasion meant to destroy our hard earned social structure and way of life...when a gang of worthless invaders can terrorize an entire country with the backing of officials elected to do the will of We, The People...tis a sad state of affairs...ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL...how DARE our...ahem...leaders allow this travesty to continue....IMPEACH THEM ALL FOR BEING TRAITORS!!!!!
Every one of them have broken their oaths of office...YOU ARE IN OFFICE TO REPRESENT THE LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO PUT YOU IN OFFICE!!!!!!
William Schmitz Philadelphia
Posted: 06:56 pm [PST] on June 18 2008
When do law enforcement begin to understand, ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL....they have no problem with it, when someone makes a right turn without using a signal...quite minor when compared to allowing gangbangers run this country...I used to respectthe judicial system and the police...now, I see them as nothing but rich eccentric kooks and cowards
Ron Los Angeles
Posted: 05:15 pm [PST] on June 18 2008
In my opinion, covering up illegal alien crime agaisnt African Americans in Los Angeles city and county is the norm and it starts from the Mayor himself. The only person I have heard comment truthfully about the tension between Hispanics (mexicans in particular) is Sheriff Lee Baca. The County Board of Supvs., the city Council and the LAPD's Bratton refuse to deal with the tensions that exist.
Bobby Long Beach, California
Posted: 02:11 pm [PST] on June 18 2008
I'm sorry but the black power structure in Los Angeles, Dianne Watson, Bernard Parks, writers like Earl Ofari Hutchinson, activists like Tony Mohammed, etc. etc. will not support the Shaws and other people in the African American community who are being displaced and are in danger of ethnic cleansing by gangs. Even Sheriff Baca, could no longer be silent about it, to his credit, and to Villaraigossas and Police Chief(thats a joke)Brattons discredit.