Case CIVMSN05-0757 - THOMAS BRADLEY VS. JOE LYNCH

Case CIVMSN05-0757 - THOMAS BRADLEY VS. JOE LYNCH

There are several overlapping stories here with Joseph Lynch, a series of events occurring on or around Hunsaker Canyon Road. Just after a building inspector for the Town of Danville where their employee Gary Vinson Collins attacked Bennett at his residence on Valle Vista Danville.  Bennett was injured left with a torn rotator, pinched nerve and torn ligaments in his knee. 

That event links the Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce who were outed when indicted in 2011 resulting in the convictions and prison time for the same people involved a long list of incidents Bennett endured including a 1989 multi-million dollar loss in Bennett v. Southern Pacific.  

Case CIVMSN05-0757 - THOMAS BRADLEY VS. JOE LYNCH

Name:	BRADLEY, THOMAS
Address:	XXXX HUNSAKER CANYON RD
City, State, Zip:	LAFAYETTE, CA 9454

Case CIVMSN05-0757 - Complaints/Parties

Complaint Number: 1 Complaint Type: CIVIL PETITION Filing Date: 05/20/2005 Complaint Status: ACTIVE
Party Number	Party Type	Party Name	Attorney	Party Status
1	PETITIONER	THOMAS BRADLEY	Pro Per
3	PROTECTED PERSON/PETITIONER	KELLY LYNN BRADLEY	Pro Per
4	PROTECTED PERSON/PETITIONER	ISABELLA LYNN BRADLEY	Pro Per
2	DEFENDANT	JOE LYNCH	Unrepresented	Served 06/08/2006

Case CIVMSN05-0757 - Actions/Minutes

Viewed	Date	Action Text	Disposition	Image
	06/22/2006	FILE RETURNED TO COURT RECORDS, MARTINEZ	Not Applicable
	06/22/2006	ORDER AFTER HEARING ON PETITION FOR INJUNCTION PROHIBITING HARASSMENT FILED; PROTECTED PERSON: THOMAS BRADLEY, KELLY LYNN BRADLEY, ISABELLA LYNN BRADLEY/ ORDER EXPIRES: 06/21/09	Not Applicable
	06/22/2006 1:30 PM DEPT. 59	HEARING ON OSC/TRO RE: HARASSMENT (CIVIL) FILED BY THOMAS BRADLEY	GRANTED
Minutes     You are Not Authorized to View Minutes prior to 12/31/2099
	06/09/2006	(CIVIL HARASSMENT) PROOF OF PERSONAL SERVICE FILED ON CIVIL PETITION FILED 05/20/2005 OF THOMAS BRADLEY AS TO JOE LYNCH, WITH SERVICE DATE OF 06/08/06	Not Applicable
	06/06/2006	HEARING ON OSC/TRO CIVIL HARASSMENT WAS SET FOR 6/22/06 AT 13:30 IN DEPT. 59
	06/06/2006	OSC RE: HARASSMENT AND TRO FILED BY THOMAS BRADLEY	Not Applicable
	06/06/2006	KELLY LYNN BRADLEY, ISABELLA LYNN BRADLEY ADDED AS A PARTY	Not Applicable
	10/17/2005	COPIES	Not Applicable
Minutes     You are Not Authorized to View Minutes prior to 12/31/2099
	10/17/2005	COPIES	Not Applicable
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	10/17/2005	COPIES	Not Applicable
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	06/02/2005 1:30 PM DEPT. 59	HEARING ON OSC/TRO RE: HARASSMENT (CIVIL) FILED BY THOMAS BRADLEY	COMPLETED
Minutes     You are Not Authorized to View Minutes prior to 12/31/2099
	05/20/2005	OSC RE: HARASSMENT AND TRO FILED BY THOMAS BRADLEY	Not Applicable
	05/20/2005	HEARING ON OSC/TRO CIVIL HARASSMENT WAS SET FOR 6/02/05 AT 13:30 IN DEPT. 59
	05/20/2005	CASE ENTRY COMPLETE	Not Applicable
	05/20/2005	COLOR OF FILE IS BLUE	Not Applicable
	05/20/2005	PETITION OF THOMAS BRADLEY FOR INJUNCTION PROHIBITING HARASSMENT AND APPLICATION FOR TRO FILED	Not Applicable

Case CIVMSN05-0757 - Pending Hearings

Date	Action Text	Disposition	Image
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The Pamela Vitale Murder - an out of tune riddle played on a fiddle

Horowitz recounts finding wife's body

Friend says TV legal analyst 'pretty sure' who bludgeoned wife

Wednesday, October 19, 2005; Posted: 9:40 a.m. EDT (13:40 GMT)

Horowitz: "I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful.' "
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LAFAYETTE, California (CNN) -- High-profile defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz said Tuesday he knew his wife, Pamela Vitale, was dead as soon as he saw her lying inside their temporary home Saturday evening.

"I took it all in, and I knew she was dead," Horowitz told CNN's Nancy Grace in an exclusive interview.

"You scream, you cry. But I just basically sat with her, and I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful,'" Horowitz said.

"It didn't matter any more what was around her, or the horror," he said. "I had just so much time with Pamela, so I just looked at her face, and it was beautiful." (Watch Horowitz describe his last minutes with his wife's body -- 4:50)

After reporting her death to police, Horowitz said he was put in the back of a squad car and not allowed to return to the trailer to see his wife.

He was later taken to the police station, where he was placed in a room normally used for juveniles.

Horowitz, 50, said police monitored him as a person who might commit suicide, but he said he had no intention of killing himself.

Horowitz said he found Vitale, 52, when he returned from San Francisco to the mobile home where the couple was living while their dream house was being built nearby on a remote hilltop near Lafayette in Contra Costa County east of Oakland.

Medical examiners concluded Monday that Vitale died from blunt trauma to the head, said a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department.

Investigators were still on the property Tuesday looking for evidence.

Horowitz said he had been in San Francisco preparing for the trial of Susan Polk, accused of stabbing to death her millionaire husband in 2002.

The judge declared a mistrial Monday in the high-profile Polk case because of Vitale's slaying.

On Tuesday, Joseph Lynch, a tenant on Horowitz's property, dismissed as "ridiculous" the suggestion that police were focusing on him as a suspect, telling CNN he had nothing to do with Vitale's death.

"I am innocent. I have not been on the premises up there," Lynch said.

Officials have described Lynch as cooperative and said he is one of many people they have spoken with about the case.

Four months ago, Horowitz and Vitale petitioned for a restraining order against Lynch, charging that he was dangerous. But Horowitz told CNN they never had the order served because they feared inflaming the situation.

Lynch acknowledged he has had trouble with alcohol and drugs, including methamphetamines, for more than 20 years, but he said he has put those troubles behind him.

He said Horowitz had been supportive, even writing a letter on his behalf to the judge after he was charged with driving while under the influence.

"I've been a real jerk over the years, but now I'm clean, sober and trying to concentrate on the present and the future," Lynch said. He would not say how long he had been off drugs, only that he was "currently clean."

Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, said Monday that the case remains "wide open."

"We're looking at all possible theories and motives. We're not focused in one area," Lee said.

Ivan Golde, a fellow attorney and friend of Horowitz, said Tuesday on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Horowitz "is pretty sure who did this crime" but cannot identify the person publicly.

Golde had earlier said police were "zeroing in" on Lynch as a potential suspect.

In response, Lynch said, "It doesn't matter what he says. I didn't do it."

Golde, who is Horowitz's co-counsel in the Polk trial, said he was "confident" there was no connection between that case and Vitale's slaying.

Horowitz and Vitale had been building a 7,000-square-foot Italian-style mansion for the past two years. It was primarily her dream house and she supervised the project down to the last detail, Horowitz told CNN.

He said he is aware that media attention will "probably" turn to him as a suspect in his wife's death.

"I don't care," he said. "My wife is gone. ... It doesn't matter. What's the difference?"

Horowitz has represented numerous high-profile defendants and appears frequently as a legal analyst on cable television networks, including CNN.

Golde said Horowitz carried a gun because "he received threats from time-to-time."

"Dan had to protect himself," he said

CNN's Rusty Dornin and Ted Rowlands contributed to this report.

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City Manager Ken Nordoff

The City of Walnut Creek has far too many suicides, dubious jumpers, and has a history of covering up investigations. 
The City Manager resigned effective Dec. 31, 2016 but my first successful use of the Brown Act occurred on Nov 2nd, 2011. 
Not knowing the specifics of the Brown Act uses and timing relevant to the Agenda Items.  I stood up. 
Later I learned one of my oldest customers Bill Hoot was ranting at the correct time.  We basically said the same thing to the Council. 
We’ve been robbed, our cases are stalled and the Walnut Creek Police were corrupt. 

Pete Bennett was holding a protest at the B of A tech Center in 2003, a year later just about every employee at the Town of Danville witnessed Bennett’s truck explode.  I know I have witnesses and those employed in Danville could end up dead like my other witness. 

The prior day I’d met with City Manager Ken Nordoff and then Chief Joel Bryden.   There was late June conversation with Bryden about the recent Federal Indictments of officers connected to the Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce linked to an attack by Gary Vinson Collins who was a building inspector who nearly beat me to death in my house.  
The Bennett/Bryden/Nordoff meeting was about Bennett v.  Collins (2004) with then Chief Chris Wenzel.

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For Eric Christensen, the call came early.

Lafayette’s new top cop says he was in fifth grade when he realized he wanted to become a police officer. His inspiration was a teacher with a dual career in law enforcement.

“He was such a compelling guy, he was the person I wanted to model myself after,” Christensen, 47, recalled. “Because of that contact, (I thought it) was an honorable profession.”

Now a 20-year veteran of the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, the respected lieutenant was recently tapped to head Lafayette’s police department following chief Mike Hubbard’s retirement, announced in February. Christensen will oversee a staff of 16 sworn officers and five department employees, and said he’s eager to address the challenges facing those involved in public safety. “The biggest thing that affects all of us as police chiefs or citizens is complacency, and not being ready for what’s around the next corner,” he said.

Selected from a handful of applicants following interviews with citizens, lawmakers and fellow officers, Christensen was the right candidate for Lafayette, said City Manager Steven Falk. He singled out the lieutenant’s expertise in volunteer management and emergency preparedness.
“We really are an area that is ripe for some kind of emergency” Falk said. “It’s good to have another police chief who is comfortable dealing with those situations.”

Crime Prevention Commission chair Traci Reilly said she too was impressed by Christensen’s handling of disasters, including the Walnut Creek pipeline explosion in 2004. Immediately following the blast, Christensen, then coordinator of the Sheriff’s Emergency Services Support Unit, helped set up and run a command post that included emergency personnel and members of the public.

During his five-year assignment with the support unit, he managed more than 600 volunteers, and was involved in other high-profile cases, including that of Laci Peterson, the Modesto woman whose husband was convicted of her murder.

“He’s just a very likable person and incredibly enthusiastic,” Reilly said. “He’s got a lot of energy.”
That energy has propelled Christensen from the start of his career, which began as a military policeman in the Army. The skills he picked up while assigned to the Army’s emergency services are still in practice today, Christensen said.

His first civilian job was with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department, which provides Lafayette’s police services by contract. He was assigned to the Martinez Detention Facility, working there for four years before becoming a field training officer and putting himself through police school.

After hitting the streets, he realized his goal of becoming a detective in San Ramon, which is where he won Sheriff’s Officer and Employee of the Year for 1999. Other awards followed. He joined the Oakley Police Department and became a supervising sergeant and took other assignments before being promoted to lieutenant. These days, he’s running the sheriff’s civil unit in Martinez and training for his new position.

“I enjoy working to no end,” Christensen said about his busy schedule, which includes instructing police academy recruits. He credits his strong work ethic to his Danish immigrant parents and said he took his first job at age 13.

As for his new job, which some consider a plum assignment due to Lafayette’s low crime rate, Christensen is both philosophical and grateful.

“I think that with any assignment you get, it’s what you make of it,” he said. “Having a community that appreciates it’s law enforcement officers is not a bad thing.”

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