We had a pretty big win today on the homeless property trial. Jury came back around 4pm. There were 8 or 9 questions they had to answer. The first question was if the city had taken and destroyed some homeless people's property. "Yes" Did they do that as a habit. "No" They didn't think there was inadequate notice before taking people's property. They didn't agree that the cops didn't get enough training and some other "no"s. Did the city fail to give proper notice of where to retrieve property? "Yes" Habitually? "Yes" 3 yeses make a win for plaintiffs. Attorney's say this is really good. There will be a damages hearing and some other activities, yet.
I don't get it, though. It was pretty clear from the testimony that a big reason no one got notice where to retrieve their property was that the property was destroyed, habitually or ALL THE TIME. If property was never booked into storage, it was obviously never stored.
Well, anyway, good news and some change of policy is to come, we hope. And some compensation, I imagine (or did someone say so?).
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