JERRY WOLKOFF BLOG-IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF, MY FATHER SAMUEL WOLKOFF, AND ALL THE OTHER VICTIMS OF INJUSTICE, EVIL IN THIS WORLD.THEY DIMINISH YOUR RIGHTS,THEN THEY DIMINISH YOUR EXISTENCE, THEN THEY LIE ABOUT IT, SAY YOU NEVER EXISTED, AND THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE FORGET THE SUFFERING THAT LASTS FOREVER, NEVER KNOWING THE TRUTH BY WHOSE HANDS, OR HOW YOU WERE KILLED.
2ND AMENDED COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST SMC CORONER OVER MISHANDLING OF REMAINS: Wolkoff vs. County of San Mateo Coroner’s office et. al. Case No. CIV503483
On Friday, pursuant to Court Order, plaintiffs filed a Second Amended Complaint against the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office; Robert Foucrault; and DOES 1 to 25.
The Second Amended Complaint contains ten new fact allegations as well as additional violations of law.
The key allegations are that Defendant violated its own policies by not informing the parents, violated the California Attorney General’s opinion on retention of tissues, violated Health and Safety Code Section 7054.4 regarding improper disposal of remains, and Gov. Code Section 27460 – to treat remains with dignity.
The new complaint also adds ground for tortious interference with the right to dispose of the decedent’s remains and that defendants released tissues in violation of the laws of CA that those tissues be properly disposed of or released to the next of kin.
The Wolkoffs’ attorney, J. Gary Gwilliam, of Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli and Brewer states that in filing this Second Amended complaint: “the Wolkoff family hopes that we can now have a trial on the merits of their complaint. This is the only way to bring their suffering to resolution.”
CONTACT: For a copy of the Second Amended Complaint or for further information please contact attorney J. Gary Gwilliam at 510-832-5411.
PLEASE HELP US GET JUSTICE FOR STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF!-
If you want to help us, keep the pressure on San Mateo County officials by bombarding them every week, every day, whatever you are comfortable with, in expressing your feelings, until this case is over.
Keep reminding them of their moral, legal, ethical, human obligations to respect the dead, provide accountability, and to allow the people of SMC to decide if justice is owed to Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff and his family, by not opposing our legal case. Thereby allowing it to go to a fair trial by the citizens of San Mateo County who will determine how and if justice should be served for what was done to Steven.
If San Mateo County elected officials stop opposing our lawsuit by withdrawing its opposition to our 2nd amended legal complaint, the judge will not be involved in any decision, and the case can then go forward in the spirit of the true American process of due process that every citizen is entitled to and be determined in an open, democratic, fair manner, based on it's own merit by the people of that County as to whether any laws were violated.
You can help us by doing the following as often as you can and in whatever manner is comfortable for you as follows:
E-Mail,Fax, Call, Write to the following San Mateo County (SMC) Board of Supervisors.
1A) The President of the SMC Board of Supervisors Adrienne Tissier at:
atissier@smcgov.org, call her office Telephone Number (650) 363-4572, and Fax her at (650)599-1027,
The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, protects against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure.
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects individual persons from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this constitutes a due-process violation, which offends against the rule of law.
NOT IN SAN MATEO COUNTY CALIFORNIA WHERE DUE PROCESS GUARANTEED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES APPARENTLY DOES NOT EXIST.
San Mateo County Officials try to simply erase my son 30 year old Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff as if he never lived. They hide behind their Lawyers, lies, and manipulations of the weak laws that exist to deny us our rights to Due process in seeking Justice for what they did to Steven.
The Citizens of San Mateo County are strangely silent as their elected officials horrifically desecrated the remains of human beings such as my son Steven. These actions of their leaders in disrespecting the dignity of the dead, the soul of my son, cannot be the true feelings of the good citizens of San Mateo County. Yet where are you, why have you not spoken to your Leaders by raising your voices to be heard in telling them to cease their mutilation of the dead and take responsibility for what they did to our son?
Is there not one citizen of San Mateo County who will speak up and demand changes in the way innocent dead victims remains are abused by your County and who then take no responsibility for their despicable actions. Where are you good people of San Mateo County, now is the time to speak up or forever live with the fact that you did nothing!
No Matter what happens, Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff will always be remembered by those of us who love him and knew him as a son, brother, cousin, nephew, friend, and caring, kind , talented human being. He will never be allowed to be erased by others and will always be alive in our hearts forever. We will always remember you Steven.
I WILL REMEMBER YOU
Needless to say the Wolkoff family, and friends are deeply pained by the Judges ruling last week re-granting the Demurrer (motion to dismiss) to San Mateo County in their Desecration of Steven's remains, with leave for us to amend. The legal system again demonstrated that it has absolutely no regard for victims, not even for the basic rights of respect, sanctity of the innocent, voiceless human remains being mutilated in death.
San Mateo County, in spite of their having a clear conflict of interest as one of the named defendants, approved another defendant American Medical Response (AMR) to to cut apart Steven's brain to be sliced into 21 new pieces, without our permission, by the defendants hired, non coroner related 3rd party pathologist, with no medical autopsy purpose, and she then removed these parts of Steven's brain to her own private lab, away from the protective custody of the SMC Coroner.
This was all done under the guise of a limited subpoena, for the illegal purposes of conducting a non coroner autopsy in trying to refute our civil suit and the official final findings SMC Coroners autopsy report.
Even the SMC Coroner Robert Foucrault knew this was illegal, when he balked at this request by AMR, and called the SMC legal counsel for advice as to what to do. Instead of the SMC legal counsel removing himself as an involved prejudiced defendant, he approved the request.
This was done 2 years after the Coroner established the cause of Steven's death beyond a doubt as being a failure of the Paramedics in performing an unnecessary airway management procedure, where they missed the airway and instead pumped pressurized oxygen into Steven's chest, crushing his chest, organs, and resulting in a terribly painful death that my son felt as his body literally exploded.
The brain is where the soul of Steven exists. He has been buried without it and no-one originally informed us of this in spite of the SMC Coroners policy to do so. This is the brain where all the thoughts, hopes, feelings, memories, and the center of who Steven was and is to us. It has been treated like a piece of animal meat carved up by a restaurant with the approval of SMC.
Steven cannot enter the "beyond" or be at peace unless his body is buried in full. Who would be so cruel and heartless to let that happen? SMC sees it as perfectly OK and then has the nerve to claim it was a legal "routine" process that was done as part of "medical research". What possible medical research would be served 2 years after Steven's death and without any request from the SMC Coroner's Pathologist to aid him in any way.
"Routine, medical research", how dare SMC claim that as reasons for what they did. At least have the sense and class to shut their mouths at this point instead of further showing us all how low on the subhuman scale they are as unfeeling scum of the earth.
Regardless of what the Judge decides, the Officials of SMC know what they did is horribly unethical, inhumane, and they will be cursed for their actions in life and when they rot in hell.
While theJudge has again somehow decided, in spite of everything in the facts that cries out for Justice, ruled against us and grantedtheCounty's request for dismissal of our Desecration case with Leave To Amend,but he has graciouslyallowedustofileasecondamendedcomplaint. Wehaveten daystodoso and we will file the 2nd amended complaint with the Court in that required time frame.
We will file our 2nd Amended complaint further detailing other arguments that our lawyers have come up with and it will be filed by us with the Court, within the next 10 days, then the county/coroner has 30 days to reply and will naturally ask again for a dismissal. The Court will schedule a hearing for a month or 2 later and issue a ruling on our new 2nd amended complaint. Needless to say we as a family and myself are deeply pained by the corrupt laws, dysfunctional legal system that has absolutely no regard for victims, even for the respect/sanctity of recognizing the value of an innocent human beings remains in death.
HELP US GET JUSTICE FOR STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF!- In the meantime, if you want to help us, please keep the pressure on SMC officials by bombarding them every week, every day, whatever you are comfortable with, in expressing your feelings until this case is over.
Just keep reminding them of their obligations to respect the dead, provide accountability, justice for Steven by not opposing our case and allowing it to go to a fair trial by their local SMC citizens who will determine how and if justice should be served for what was done to Steven.
If SMC stops opposing our lawsuit by withdrawing its opposition to our 2nd amended legal complaint, the judge will not be involved in any decision, and the case can then go forward in the spirit of the true American process of due process that every citizen is entitled to and be judged on it's own merit by the people.
If you want, please continue to do the following as often as you can and let them know that they should immediately withdraw their legal opposition with the San Mateo Superior Court re-our case, in particular our 2nd amended complaint, and allow it to proceed to a fair trial by citizens of a Jury who will decide the merits of our legal case:
1) E-mail the President of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Adrienne Tissiernow at atissier@smcgov.orgor call her office at (650) 363-4572
6) Contact your local media with the below press release and ask them to publish it. If you have an online Blog or know of someone who has one, or online access to the media, feel free to distribute the below press release.
7) Send this blog post and other press releases to your friends, acquaintances and others to ask them to do any of the above if they feel comfortable in helping to spread an awareness to get involved in our cause.
The media has reported our case in multiple print, online articles,TV news stories across the U.S. and across the world in response to this latest ruling. This has opened a potential forum for us to educate and inform the public as to the current outrageously poorly written laws in California and elsewhere that do not protect the dignity of human remains, and the families of those who are subject to the whims of the Coroners Office in doing what they wish with no thought to the proper respect deserved by the dead and their loved ones.
If this was a case involving your loved family member or child, you would be as outraged as I am and determined to fight back against this barbaric behavior. You would assume that your loved ones body is entirely left to your wishes as to its handling in a respectful manner. Not so according to the Judges latest ruling that the coroner can do as he wishes and completely ignore your emotional, religious, and basic moral, ethical values.
Many States have toughened their Laws in response to the public demands of respecting the dead so that what happened to Steven being mutilated could not legally happen and be a violation.
Basically the Laws re- handling of human remains in California are so poorly written that the laws only specify 3 or 4 specific things that a Coroner/County is not allowed to do. Nothing else is specified as legal or illegal, so there is no violation of the state laws pertaining to deceased remains. That means by default according to this particular judges current interpretation, everything else that a Coroner/County does, no matter how despicable it may be, whether it's desecrating Stevens remains 2 years after his death by the defendants pathologist, without our permission for the sole purpose of our court case, having nothing to do with any legitimate reason to mutilate his remains, is legal according to him because it is not specified in the law as being either legal or illegal.
According to the latest ruling by the Judge, even the loved ones of the victim who suffer permanent emotional damage forever and endure unspeakable grief are ignored, as the California Laws supposedly do NOT recognize that grief, emotional damage caused by Govt. officials are not worthy of being recognized.
In fact using this current legal interpretation, the coroner can legally sell your body parts to the Circus or on E-Bay as it doesn't say they can or can't in the current laws.
All attempts by the California State legislature to change this law and make it a stronger, comprehensive statute have been defeated by lobbying from the State Coroners Association and the State Sheriffs/Law enforcement lobbyists who don't want their powers to be eroded in any way, including the power of owning your body.
Perhaps he will change his mind after considering our 2nd amended complaint and let our case be judged at trial by citizens of San Mateo County who will decide whether this is legal or not.
In the reporting (see 2 typical print media stories below) of the Judges ruling there are comments made by SMC officials that are deliberate outright lies, distortions of the truth, and heinous boasting/gloating arrogant comments quoted by SMC officials as they spin the ruling to further confuse, misinform the public about the real legal/moral issues surrounding our complaint.
This is in addition to poor reporting of this misinformation that is regurgitated back unchallenged by the media in repeating the lies of SMC, instead of investigating as journalists the truth, needs for legal reforms, and the illegal, immoral behavior in desecrating Steven's body, along with many other citizens in the State of California.
The County officials through their Law Counsel who casually, rationalizes as if they are talking about a piece of merchandise, that they have done nothing wrong in how Steven's remains have been treated, completely ignoring our feelings as human beings, needs to be made clear to all the population, as we not only have a responsibility to do our very best in securing Justice for Steven, but to try to prevent this from happening to other families in the future.
California is a State with Byzantine Laws and a dysfunctional, uncaring legal system that reflects the disregard of those in power as being full of shit in providing any resemblance of concern for it's residents as people who should be treated with respect .
It also makes you think about how dangerous it is to assume that first responders who are there to help you, can kill you, then escape with everyone else, including the Coroner who is sworn to treat the body of a deceased person and their families with dignity.
They are legalized killers who can get away with killing a human being because they are part of the System that governs us.
It shows how the "leaders" of many Towns, County's and Govt, in general don't respect human life or care about us because they are drunk with power which makes them feel they are better than the rest of us in being above the legal, moral laws that the rest of us abide by. They only care about covering their ass as subhumans.
To them it is never about justice or taking accountability for their mistakes. If they had simply admitted their errors and apologized in writing to my family, we probably would have never sued them. But their arrogance and deliberate ignoring of Steven's life and death as a human being is so disgustingly real, cruel, and offensive, that we must not give up until we have done our best to expose them.
Every time we rock their boat and punch back, they have to deal with us and think of Steven's memory, instead of simply erasing it easily with their lies and corruption.
So much for due process that every American supposedly is entitled to, the sanctity of life and death that we assume others in power respect. It is all too real and not a nightmare what you are witnessing going on in Steven's case.
The use of the word "routine" in the article by the SMC lawyer is a lie and despicable and they all act like "parrots" in repeating the garbage fed to them by SMC instead of seeking the truth.
We will keep on fighting, doing our very best to get some Justice for Steven.
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A New York couple who accused the San Mateo County coroner of negligence for letting an ambulance company dissect their son's brain may not pursue a lawsuit, a judge tentatively ruled Wednesday.
Under the ruling, the family can amend the complaint and try again.The tentative dismissal, however, suggests that the coroner acted properly in 2008 in complying with a subpoena to release brain tissue from the couple's son, Steven Wolkoff, 30, to an ambulance company after the man died in an auto accident on Highway 1.
The American Medical Response ambulance company wanted to analyze the brain to defend itself in a separate, wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the man's parents. In that suit, now settled, Jerald and Sandy Wolkoff accused paramedics of hastening their son's death through a procedure meant to help him breathe.
In 2010, the Wolkoffs learned that Coroner Robert Foucrault had allowed American Medical Response to remove a portion of their son's brain from his office and slice it into multiple pieces.
Observant Jews, the Wolkoffs said their faith requires them to bury their son whole, and that they were unaware that the ambulance company's subpoena would involve removal and dissection of Steven Wolkoff's brain.
The Wolkoffs then sued the coroner's office and Foucrault.
David Levy, the deputy county counsel representing the coroner, said complying with subpoenas that let a third party dissect tissue is "very routine."
A San Mateo County judge has tentatively dismissed a lawsuit filed by a New York family who claims their son's remains were mishandled by the county coroner's office.
Jerald and Sandy Wolkoff filed the lawsuit against the coroner's office last year after learning that it had given parts of their 30-year-old son Steven's brain to an ambulance company to be dissected and examined.
The suit claimed that the couple experienced emotional distress because the coroner released the brain samples to American Medical Response, which was gathering forensic information to defend itself against a wrongful-death lawsuit also filed by the Wolkoffs.
In a tentative ruling issued Wednesday afternoon, the lawsuit was dismissed with the option for amendment. The court had been scheduled to hear a motion to dismiss the case on Thursday at 9 a.m.
The family's attorney, Jayme Burns, said the Wolkoffs are planning to file an amended complaint and are deciding whether to contest the tentative ruling.
In the separate wrongful-death suit, which has been settled, the couple sued the ambulance company claiming that a procedure paramedics had used on their son caused brain damage and contributed to his death, according to Burns.
Steven Wolkoff was one of two people killed in a seven-car pileup on state Highway 1 in unincorporated San Mateo County in June 2008. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The lawsuit dismissed Wednesday alleged that the coroner's office released Wolkoff's brain to a third party -- referring to AMR -- and allowed it to be cut into almost two dozen pieces, without the consent of the Wolkoff family, whose religious beliefs under Judaism required that their son's remains be buried in totality.
"It's important to them to bury the entire body," Burns said.The Wolkoffs learned of the coroner's office's actions through a deposition for the wrongful-death lawsuit against AMR.
"No one from (the coroner's office) ever informed us or sought our permission to have the defendant in the wrongful death suit dissect new slides of Steven's brain over two years after his cause of death was determined by their office," Jerald Wolkoff said in a statement issued Tuesday.
Burns said that Steven Wolkoff's cause of death had been determined in 2008 prior to the release of his brain to AMR.
San Mateo County Deputy County Counsel David Levy said American Medical Response requested a sample of the brain after the autopsy and has the right to retain such samples for research purposes under California law.
The ambulance company had registered a subpoena for the brain tissue to further investigate the son's medical condition at the time of the crash.
Levy said the Wolkoffs' lawyers received the subpoena and did not object, and that San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault was following the law when he turned over the materials requested."If the family didn't want him to do that, they should have objected through their lawyer," Levy said.
Foucrault did not return a call for comment.
The Wolkoff case is not the first time the coroner's office has been faced with a lawsuit over the alleged mishandling of remains.
In 2006, Daly City resident Isolina Picon learned after interring her son's body that the coroner had returned her son's remains without his heart.
Picon sued the coroner for keeping his heart to study the cause of death, but a state appeals court tossed out the case in 2010. The appeals court said that state law gives a coroner's office "discretion to retain tissues and parts of the body" to determine the cause of death, as well as to perform other duties.
Although the Picon's case was dismissed, it led the Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution recommending the coroner institute a policy of informing the next of kin when remains are retained.
Burns, an attorney for the Wolkoffs, said the new lawsuit aimed to rekindle a conversation on that policy.
"We'd like to -- that was kind of the purpose," she said.
Is there not one courageous person in all of San Mateo County that has the ethics and the guts to stand up and fight to help us get Justice for Steven by making their feelings public to the inappropriate behavior of their leaders?
We will now get to see who you really are as citizens of the United States, parents, grandparents, and decent human beings.
How much is the life of Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff, and his soul worth?
After you read this post,if you want to help obtain Justice for Steven, it would be helpful for you to IMMEDIATEY contact any or all of the following and let them know your feelings about what has happened and needs to be done by them going forward.
The San Mateo County Coroner and San Mateo County has moved in court to dismiss our Desecration of Steven's human remains case. That motion will be heard on February 23, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. (we have only 2 days from now) in the San Mateo County Superior Court. The case is Wolkoff vs. County of San Mateo Coroner’s Office et. al, Case No. CIV503483.
1) E-mail the President of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Adrienne Tissiernow at atissier@smcgov.orgor call her office at (650) 363-4572and let her know that they should immediately withdraw their legal opposition with the San Mateo Superior Court re-our case being allowed to proceed to a fair trial by citizens of a Jury who will decide the merits of our legal case.
3) Call the San Mateo Coroner-Robert J. Foucrault-(650) 312-5562.
Steven should be alive today but he is now rotting away at the bottom of his grave, instead of enjoying life to its fullest. Death is permanent, forever he will be missed and loved.
What I feel as Steven's father even though is so painfully impossible for me to reduce into words that you can understand the magnitude of what my family and I live with every day, now, for the rest of our lives.
My feelings will never change and I will carry them with me forever in my broken heart as a parent. Steven was an amazing loving son, a talented, skilled craftsman who was working on streaming media projects as the head team supervisor for major tech Company's, a amazing bass guitarist with his band, a voracious reader, writer, who embraced every aspect of life. He was a uniquely gifted young man, patient, kind, humble, caring, and loved by everyone he met. I am so proud of who he was as my son and as a man.
Yet somehow he ended up dead forever at such a young age, before he could experience the many beautiful things that he deserved. He will never be a father, have a family, smell the air, see the sun, feel the rain, talk, hug, kiss and feel love ever again. We buried him against the natural order of life as his parents, instead of his burying us, a true tragedy.
In death, Steven was not even given the basic dignity by those responsible in their sworn responsibilities of taking care of him in a way that is expected and required in a civilized society to recognize the sanctity of a human being who is no longer alive.
How can this be, why Steven, why did he have to suffer so much, why is he not here alive today, we will never know. I will never stop asking those questions.
Instead of San Mateo County officials acting in a humane manner, and being honest by holding themselves accountable for their actions to Steven as an innocent victim, they have disrespected, mutilated, his body, and tried to erase him as if he never existed.
San Mateo County has treated their horrific actions in the desecration of my sons body in death, as if their barbaric behavior is somehow acceptable. For me, this is not about a legal case, fancy legal words, and manipulations of laws by SMC to avoid their taking seriously the violation of their sworn responsibility to respect with dignity to protect, and treat with the utmost sanctity that we all expect for the dead, and of the human soul.
This is about the basic inability of SMC as a government entity that has instead gone out of it's way in treating Steven's body and the grief of my family, in such a disgraceful, cruel, inhuman way. Apparently San Mateo County feels that it is perfectly acceptable legally and morally to defile a human body.
What if this was your innocent child who was killed traveling through my community where I live, and his body allowed to be illegally mutilated by those in charge ? Would you not expect the honesty and dignity from me, my neighbors, to treat every human life in death as precious. Apparently NOT so in San Mateo!
How do the SMC officials live with themselves? How is it possible that there is not at least one brave human being, not one County Official in San Mateo County involved in all of this, who will come forward and recognize that a human life is precious and allow the citizens of San Mateo County to decide through a jury trial, as to whether justice should be given to Steven?
We will see, when the Court rules in the next 2 days on Thursday February 23, 2012 as to whether what was horrifically done to Steven in death is acceptable, has merit to go to a jury trial, or is "frivolous", and the acts of desecration of the dead is an acceptable practice in San Mateo County. We will see how the citizens of San Mateo County feel about the value of a human life.
Below is a press release appearing in the media over the next 2 days and we will get to see whether a human life is worth being respected while living and in death. I guess I expect that that the answer will be my worst fears that the corrupt legal system will continue to ignore Steven's human rights but I will hope for the best, that they are still capable of recognizing the value of a human life. We will see.
PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release: February 21, 2012
SAN MATEO COUNTY Coroner Sued Again Over Mishandling Remains
Jerald and Sandy Wolkoff attended a deposition for the wrongful death of their 30 year old son Steven Wolkoff. They were shocked to learn that the office of Robert Foucrault, the San Mateo County Coroner, had retained parts of their son’s brain. The Wolkoffs were not informed by the Coroner’s office that parts of Steven Wolkoff’s brain had been retained at the time he was released to their custody for burial. After having buried their son Steven, to learn about the mishandling of their son’s remains was devastating and in violation of their faith. Moreover, the Coroner’s office had released Steven Wolkoff’s brain to the Defendant’s third party lab and allowed it to be desecrated, cut into 20 pieces, all without the consent or permission of the Wolkoffs.
The Wolkoffs then discovered this was not the first time the San Mateo County Coroner had acted with such disregard for the deceased and the surviving next of kin. In 2006, San Mateo County resident Selina Picon learned that the Coroner had returned her son’s body for burial without his heart. She was outraged. Her lawsuit prompted the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution recommending the Coroner put in place a policy of informing the next of kin when body parts of the deceased are retained. That policy was carelessly disregarded in the Wolkoffs’ case.
The Wolkoffs are suing the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office and San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault to prevent this trauma from happening to other grieving parents. The overpowering issue is that families of all faiths would desire their loved one’s remains be treated with dignity and not indifference. Sandy Wolkoff said, “This is a very big issue for me, maybe because there are so few chances left for me to fight for my son. I can't have him back, but I want all of him. I, as his mother, felt dismissed by the people involved in his death. They also seem to have forgotten that they have a moral and legal mandate to be respectful of him, and us, after his death."
Jerald Wolkoff said, “Despite the allegations of the SMC Coroner as to their change in protocol after the Picon Case, NO ONE from the SMC Coroner’s Office ever notified me or Sandy, post autopsy that they were returning Steven’s body to us without the various human remains that they kept. Furthermore, no one from the SMC Coroner’s office ever informed us, or sought our permission to have the Defendant in the wrongful death suit, dissect new slides of Steven's brain, over 2 years after his cause of death was determined by their Office.”
The San Mateo County Coroner has moved in court to dismiss the Wolkoffs’ Complaint. That motion will be heard on February 23, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. in the San Mateo County Superior Court. The case is Wolkoff vs. County of San Mateo Coroner’s Office et. al, Case No. CIV503483. The Wolkoffs are represented by longtime Oakland Plaintiffs’ lawyers J. Gary Gwilliam and Steven J. Brewer. For questions please contact: J. Gary Gwilliam, Steven J. Brewer, Jayme Burns at 510-832-5411,or Jerry Wolkoff at 516-697-4804.
Now we will learn just how much my sons life is worth in the the "justice System". I Don't expect very much but I am hoping for the best, a chance to exercise our rights to have the truth told, be decided at a Jury Trial and not have our case ruled on randomly by an indifferent Judge.
