{"id":13492,"date":"2018-12-19T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13492"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:22","slug":"concussion-inc-to-court-in-final-brief-the-141-page-binder-of-berkeley-campus-police-reports-in-the-ted-agu-football-conditioning-death-should-be-turned-over-without-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13492","title":{"rendered":"Concussion Inc. to Court in Final Brief: The 141-Page Binder of Berkeley Campus Police Reports in the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death \u2018Should Be Turned Over Without Delay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nby Irvin Muchnick<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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In our last brief filed before the judge decides whether to finalize a tentative ruling that had signaled his inclination to require the University of California to release 141 pages of Berkeley campus police reports in the 2014 football conditioning death of Ted Agu, Concussion Inc.’s attorney Roy S. Gordet today argued that the secret binder of documents “should be turned over without delay.”<\/span><\/p>\n

UC “cannot show that it is in the public interest to hide these documents,” Gordet wrote, and has failed to meet Judge Jeffrey Brand’s “requested evidence of a criminal investigation or reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In his November 19 tentative ruling, Brand identified “reasonable suspicion of criminal activity” as the standard the university would need to meet in order to justify exempting the 141-page campus police binder under Section 6254(f) of the California Public Records Act (CPRA), which protects certain types of law enforcement records.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly two years after I filed this CPRA lawsuit in 2017, our motion for the 141 pages has emerged as the climactic dispute of the case. The court invited the university to file a supplemental brief to support its claim for the 6254(f) exemption; our brief today is in response to the university’s. UC will have a final reply brief prior to a hearing before Judge Brand scheduled for January 17 at the Hayward Hall of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the next post, we will reproduce the full texts of our brief and my declaration in support of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

A facsimile of today’s brief is viewable at <\/span>http:\/\/muchnick.net\/suppresponsebrief141pages.pdf<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A facsimile of my supporting declaration is at <\/span>http:\/\/muchnick.net\/muchnicksuppdec141pages.pdf<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

UC’s December 7 brief is at <\/span>http:\/\/muchnick.net\/ucsuppbrief141pages.pdf<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow Concussion Inc. will upload the three exhibits accompanying our brief today. These are:<\/span><\/p>\n