U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco today denied an attempt by San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to stop hearings that begin next week on whether she should be removed from office on corruption charges.
“The motion for a preliminary injunction is denied,” Judge Chhabria wrote. “As discussed at the hearing, the court is skeptical that Corpus will ever be able to prevail on her claims that the removal process violates her federal constitutional rights. But even if there were serious questions going to the merits of her claims, the court would decline to take the extraordinary step of interfering with an ongoing local government process, particularly given that Corpus could (if she were somehow able to prevail) get most of the relief she seeks in this lawsuit after the fact.”
Starting Monday, Corpus will appeal a decision made by the Board of Supervisors to remove her from office. Corpus wanted the judge to stop that hearing.
The supervisors are removing the sheriff under the authority of Measure A, an amendment to the San Mateo County Charter that was approved by 84% of voters in March. Under Measure A, the supervisors can remove her by a four-fifths vote for cause.
See story about the hearing before Judge Chhabria.
Excellent news! She is completely pathetic at this point! The incompetent lady thinks she can continue to do whatever she wants. FAFO lady! You are about to get schooled. You have worn out the nonsensical “I am a woman of color…I am a latina” NOBODY cares! You have abused employees, committed abhorrent civil rights violations against employees, broken the trust of your employees and the public and worst of all tarnished the badge we all wore so proudly. Shame on you! Now pay the price for YOUR OWN ACTIONS!!!!
It would seem that the propagation of mis-information and mis-quoting of various judges, especially of Judge Chhabria, by Corpus’ panel of Counselors was not lost on Judge Chhabria himself when he wrote, “As discussed at the hearing, the court is skeptical that Corpus will ever be able to prevail on her claims that the removal process violates her federal constitutional rights. But even if there were serious questions going to the merits of her claims, the court would decline to take the extraordinary step of interfering with an ongoing local government process, particularly given that Corpus could (if she were somehow able to prevail) get most of the relief she seeks in this lawsuit after the fact” in his ruling dated today.
It would seem that Judge Chhabria could have paid close attention to Mr. Perez’ comments at the Board meeting in Redwood City yesterday. Yesterday, Mr. Perez asked the Board to violate the provisions of the newly amended County Charter by delaying the Measure A proceeding—he asserted it was to allow the Grand Jury proceedings to move forward first out of “fairness”—when there is no authorization in the law to permit any such delay of the Removal process by the Board. Perez asked the Board to violate the law.
Additionally, Mr. Perez failed to mention that at 9:00 AM this morning, the Corpus legal team attended a court case management and trial setting conference held in Redwood City relative their motion to delay that very GJ proceeding. Talk about being unfair, not to mention deceptive and misleading in the presentation to the Board by Corpus and those acting in her stead.
So Measure A goes on, the 10 days of testimony finish, and then within 30 days a judgement is made and the final vote of the Board of Supervisors.
The Corpus attorneys wanted to only fight the Civil Grand jury because they can stall those hearings with discovery etc etc etc It has absolutely nothing to do with the public being any more involved. The continued delay tactics for the Civil Grand Jury continue on- likely for 1-2 years. Which could be up until the end of her term in 2028… Although, the civil grand jury attorneys are supposedly being paid for by Corpus now, not the county!
In a perfect world, sometime in September, let us hope the Sheriff is fired, loses access to the building and will be at home, far away from the Sheriff office, still delusional and fighting for her job back.. And then her executive team is dismantled, her reserve deputy buddy is stripped of his duties and his little name removed from all Sheriff websites, PAL board sites and even the gold letters from a now empty office removed.
What an ugly process. How does anyone not see the Superior Courts and Federal Courts have all said that Measure A is in place to protect the people. The very people arrested, on leave, demoted, terrorized, demoralized- the 40+ people testifying vs. the one flagrant liar, the Sheriff herself.
KGO “investigative reporter” Dan Noyes isn’t much of a reporter at all. He just a cheerleader for Corpus and Aenlle. Instead of asking her tough questions, he wants to know how she’s feeling and how she’s holding up. Softballs. Last night he claimed there were a bunch of deputies on her side but they were afraid to speak up. Sure, Dan, sure. The deputies union vote for no confidence was 318-12. And he said the civil grand jury has to finish its case. That must have come as a surprise to the civil grand jurors who returned their accusations against Corpus and were discharged. Now a new jury will be empaneled to decide if Corpus is guilty. But I guess Dan doesn’t know that. What an idiot!
For now, it’s all about Corpus trying anything to stall the process of her most certain removal. Blatant lies and tears of her “alleged” victimization at the hands of the “good ole boy” mafia is all she will talk about in her hearing next week. Once the public gets a better understanding of the true extent of the harms she’s caused, she’ll have no decent person supporting her whatsoever. Let her sit home and file appeals until the cows come home…just get this skanky panky and her boy-troll Victor out of office once and for all!
There seems to be a real disconnect with Corpus and her lawyers from actual factual reality. Immoral lawyers stalling the truth.
Last year an investigation started for multiple ignored HR complaints. Hence Cordell uncovered several significant concerns. Noone needed to be under oath for this? HR complaints are confidential as well.
The Sheriff then fired demoted arrested employees and Measure A was put into play. A county charter amendment.
Then another investigation into the county manager accusations. Then another investigation to confirm the Cordell report further.
Now the attorneys want to say this is unconstitutional and the Sheriff is a victim? San Mateo county is a charter county, following laws pout into place in California. Multiple judges have confirmed this. Shut the front door. What you talking about about?