Little added, “I would be wondering, ‘is this purely to get the jury all excited about the case’” - and is it relevant to the charges against PG&E? On the other hand, he said, “if I am the judge, I would be wondering: ‘Why doesn’t a photograph do the same? Why do we have to get the jury up, with all the media around?’” “To say this is not about the explosion is kind of like saying, ‘Don’t think about the elephant in the corner.’ Without the explosion, you would not have the missing (pipeline) records or an alleged act of obstruction.” “The idea that the jury actually sees physical evidence is not so unusual - but will it fly in this case?” Little said.
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“The point being, this is not unusual in this kind of high-profile trial - you typically see this in murder cases, where the prosecutors make them go see the scene,” Little said. The structure is now at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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One well-publicized example, he said, was federal prosecutors’ plan to transport “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski’s Montana shack to California for his trial.īefore that could happen, Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998 to a string of bombings that killed three people and injured 23 others, so the shack issue was never decided. Professor Rory Little of UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco said seeking to put such a large piece of evidence before a jury is unusual, but not unprecedented. Henderson must settle that dispute and many other evidentiary fights before the trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin with jury selection March 22. “No one disputes” that, they told Henderson, adding that there are “many substantially less-prejudicial means to prove this same fact - including that PG&E will stipulate to it.” In particular, the PG&E lawyers scoff at the notion that “parading the ruptured pipe on a flatbed truck” is needed to show that the line ran through a high-risk, heavily populated area. None of the counts, PG&E contends, is directly connected to the explosion itself - something the company lawyers point to in seeking to have Henderson block any mention of the blast during the trial, let alone trucking in the ruined pipe for the jury to see. The company is accused of 12 counts of violating safety laws, many of them connected to its haphazard record-keeping system, along with one count of obstructing the federal investigation of the explosion. District Judge Thelton Henderson, will demonstrate that the line ran through a heavily populated, “high-consequence area.” Showing the pipe section to the jury, they added in arguments to U.S. Prosecutors contend the blast could have been prevented if PG&E had adhered to pipeline safety laws that the company is charged with violating. attorney’s office says the explosion itself, and the 30-inch-diameter section of ruptured pipe, by extension, is physical evidence that is clearly relevant to its case. No current or former PG&E employees are charged. If convicted, the company could face as much as $500 million in fines. Prosecutors say the elaborate show-and-tell is an essential part of proving that PG&E is guilty of 13 criminal charges that grew out of the investigation into the September 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in San Bruno’s Crestmoor neighborhood. The section of pipe, 28 feet long and 3,000 pounds, is to be trucked to the front of the federal courthouse on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco as one of the first pieces of evidence to be presented to the jury when the trial opens this month - unless a judge sides with PG&E and blocks the plan. criminal case will get to see for themselves the giant gas-transmission pipe that exploded in San Bruno - and they won’t have to go far to do it. If federal prosecutors get their way, jurors in the upcoming Pacific Gas and Electric Co. A rupture in the pipe caused an explosion that killed at least four people and leveled dozen Noah Berger/AP Show More Show Less Brant Ward/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of3 A natural gas line, described by officials as the cause of a large explosion Thursday night, lies broken on a San Bruno, Calif., road on Saturday, Sept.
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The blaze was caused by a natural gas explosion at an underground PG&E pipeline. Paul Chinn/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of3 Firefighters battle a fire that destroyed an entire neighborhood on Claremont Drive in San Bruno in September 2010. 1 of3 Federal investigators inspect a 40-foot section of pipeline on Glenview Drive in San Bruno on Saturday.