10 Years In Jail And Still No Trial For Murder Suspect

By KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Sat, 02/18/2017 - 12:59am

Prisoner advocates and court-watchers say such delays take an exhaustive toll on suspects stuck behind bars and on victims' families, who are robbed of closure that can come from trials. Davis' mother says her son is innocent but hasn't had the chance to prove it in court, and his health is suffering because of the long stretch in jail. Davis and two friends had gone to the apartment complex to buy marijuana from someone else, prosecutors say in court records. [...] that person wasn't home, so the group went into Reaves' apartment, with an open door, and tried to rob him of money and drugs - that's when Davis shot him, the records say. Two years later, McCloud pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge, avoiding the death penalty and receiving a 99-year prison sentence. Years had passed, but the case had none of the defense filings typical for capital murder charges — only simple motions for bond and a preliminary hearing. [...] he worked for his new client, hiring a private investigator, pushing to take the death penalty off the table and pressing prosecutors for information. Longtime District Attorney Doug Valeska left office in January, but his successor, Pat Jones, asked to step aside because he represented one of Davis' friends in the shooting. Davis has enough write-ups to remain in disciplinary segregation until April 2020, Reed said. Because he's had multiple violations, each piece of contraband or infraction means 30 additional days. In October, Davis handwrote a request to be returned to the jail's general population, describing segregation as "No phone calls, no visitation, no television, no sunlight nor fresh air." "Since being confined and forgotten for so long, the defendant has reached a state of stress and depression from missing family visits and voice communication, and had been compelled to taking medications," Davis wrote. An Iraq war veteran, Malcomb Reaves remembers rushing home from his military station to find his mother sobbing, "They killed my baby!"

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