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Postscript: The Gottlieb Response

By KC Johnson

Representing Mark Gottlieb, attorneys Edwin M. Speas and Eric Stevens hold their client free of any civil liability. ?Since Sgt. Gottlieb,? they write, ?did not have authority to ?initiate? or ?continue? a criminal prosecution, and since he provided all relevant information to the District Attorney, Sgt. Gottlieb cannot be held liable for the actions and decisions of the District Attorney or the grand jury.? What?s the worst that could be said of him? That ?Sgt. Gottlieb conducted an aggressive investigation motivated by his desire to produce identifications and arrests in response to pressure from his superiors.? Borrowing from the class-baiting tone of the Durham response, Speas and Stevens add that ?Sgt. Gottlieb has always been careful, as he was in this case, to investigate alleged violent crimes fairly and thoroughly without regard for the social status, race or gender of the victim or perpetrator of the alleged crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).