WOLKOFF PARENTS SUE SAN MATEO COUNTY CORONER FOR FOURTH TIME OVER SON'S BRAIN

 "APPARENTLY THEY DON'T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER"


San Mateo County's attorney John Beiers  words are stated above about our legal fight to obtain JUSTICE FOR STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF in the desecration by them of Steven's human remains.

Mr. Beiers further arrogantly says a fourth filing by us is a "colossal waste of public resources." 

Apparently Mr. Beiers considers our right to due process under the laws of the United States and California as a waste of time, money and an annoyance to him. 

Mr. Beiers apparently does not believe that the desecration by his County of the dignity deserved by my son in death and the horror in the manner it has damaged our family, is worthy of his valuable time. Nor does he seem at all concerned about the way a human being can be killed in San Mateo County and no one in authority has ever fulfilled their sworn duty to protect the remains of my son from being abused in any manner, by the defendants, including his own Office's legal conflict of interest in this case in originally allowing this inhuman behavior to take place . 


A human life apparently is cheap in San Mateo County and the only thing Mr. Beier's gets correct is that the Wolkoff Family does not take no for an answer when you have stolen our son's soul from him. I am certain that the good Citizens of San Mateo County would agree with me and do the same in trying to gain justice for their loved ones.

See you in Court Mr. Beiers, Oh yeah, you won't be there since your Office has wasted a ton of money in tax payers money by hiring a large private Law Firm to do your dirty work in covering your ass and that of the others involved in violating my son's body. After all it is only about covering your asses and not about being accountable for the true facts of the horrific acts your Office, plus the Coroners Office allowed to happen to Steven.


What are you so scared of Mr. Beier's in allowing a Jury of your neighbors to decide whether what happened to Steven was a violation of his rights, a violation of laws that you are trying to manipulate by hiding behind, and which has damaged us beyond agony that any parents should ever experience. 

Shame on you, shame on the San Mateo County Government, how any of you can sleep at night is beyond me. You have no conscience nor courage to do the right thing and admit you have violated the sanctity owed to a dead person, a victim, and their family. 

I wonder how the people of San Mateo County feel about what you have done in the past to their own dead, to our son, and in the future to other families. Hopefully by our not taking no for an answer, others will be spared from your cruelty in disrespecting the remains of our loved ones.

Couple sues San Mateo County Coroner for fourth time over son's brain

By Joshua Melvin

jmelvin@bayareanewsgroup.com

Posted:   08/01/2012 04:17:59 PM PDT

Updated:   08/01/2012 07:00:29 PM PDT

REDWOOD CITY -- A New York couple have refiled for the third time their lawsuit which claims San Mateo County's coroner broke the law when he let an ambulance company take samples of their dead son's brain.

Jerald and Sandra Wolkoff's suit, filed Tuesday in San Mateo County Superior Court, alleges state rules require officials to get permission to turn over body parts to investigators in certain circumstances. The Wolkoffs say they never gave their OK for Coroner Robert Foucrault to give some of their son Steven Wolkoff's brain stem to American Medical Response.

Although judges have dismissed the three previous iterations of the Wolkoffs' lawsuit, each time they also allowed the family to file a revised complaint.

Steven Wolkoff died after a July 21, 2008, car crash on Highway 1 near Green Oaks Way. 

His parents alleged, in a separate 2009 suit, that American Medical Response workers made medical errors that led to their son's death. The company got Wolkoff's brain tissue in preparation for its defense against the wrongful death case, which has since been settled for an undisclosed sum, attorneys said.

San Mateo County's attorney John Beiers said the Wolkoff's case against the coroner has already been thrown out three times and that a fourth filing is a "colossal waste of public resources." He added Foucrault didn't do anything wrong and there's no legal basis for yet another suit.

"Apparently they don't take no for an answer," said Beiers. "Everything that's in their complaint has already been (thrown out)."  

Foucrault has been accused previously of mishandling the remains of the dead. Isolina Picon sued the coroner in 2007 after learning his office had retained her son's heart. Picon's suit was later dismissed.

The Wolkoffs' attorney Steve Brewer said his clients, who are devout Jews, were horrified to find out they had buried their son without all of his body parts and that his brain had been dissected. Judaism considers dissection, except for urgent reasons, a matter of "shame and gross dishonor," the complaint says.

Brewer said he hopes the judges have given his client three chances to refile because they see some validity in their complaint."We're kind of dancing with the judge," said Brewer. "We're trying to find the language he would find acceptable to let us pursue this."

Contact Joshua Melvin at 650-348-4335. Follow him at Twitter.com/melvinreport.

LEIBY KLETZKY MURDER UPDATE, KILLER, LEVI ARON, TO PLEAD GUILTY

 

   REST IN PEACE LEIBY KLETZKY

Leiby Kletzky's Suspected Killer, Levi Aron, To Plead Guilty 

Killer of 8-year-old boy to get 40 years to life

 What does all this mean? It is about the agony and indescribable pain of victims and their families. Can anyone really understand, feel, imagine what 8 year old Leiby Kletzky felt in his last few minutes of life before his body was literally torn apart, limb by limb, by the animal Levi Aron.

Let us not forget the permanent living agony, emotional damage, ever present demons that the parents, sisters, and family of Leiby Kletzky must endure for the rest of their lives. It is NOT something that ever goes away or gets better, it bleeds profusely forever. 

No-one should ever question whatever the parents of Leiby Kletzky decide to do or not in the circus of  the  legal cesspool and Court clowns of Judges, lawyers, media. There can never be any justice given for horrific killings of innocent victims who lie 6 feet under in graves, rotting away while their killers stay alive, gone forever, their lives stolen from them and their loving families. 

It is also about the Lawyers for Levi Aron who have reached the obvious conclusion that they will never be able to convince a jury that their client was insane and somehow not responsible for his depraved killing of an 8 year old.

In New York State $60,076 is the Average Annual Cost per inmate in housing a jailed prisoner (not including the overhead costs of Corrections Department staff, etc.)

IN FISCAL YEAR 2010, the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) had $2.7 billion in prison expenditures. (In 2011, DOCS merged with the Division of Parole to become the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.) However, the state also had $812.5 million in prison-related costs outside the department’s budget. The total cost of New York’s prisons—to incarcerate an average daily population of 59,237—was therefore almost $3.6 billion, of which 22.8 percent were costs outside the corrections budget.

The "Brooklyn Butcher" who killed little Leiby Kletzky and hacked up his body will likely die in prison under a plea deal that’s got his blessing and that of the slain boy’s parents. His incarceration will cost much more than the above average inmates annual cost as he will require complete isolation from the rest of the prison population, no doubt a special Kosher diet, and the various amenities such as Cable TV that prisoners receive.

Levi Aron, whose gruesome murder of the 8-year-old boy shocked the city last summer and stunned their insular Orthodox Jewish community, would receive a prison sentence of 40 years to life, according to sources.


“There is a deal,” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents the Borough Park neighborhood where Leiby lived and has been speaking for the boy’s family.


The confessed killer would get 25 years to life in prison for murder, plus 15 years for kidnapping, sources said.
Hikind, who said he plans to read a statement from the family at Aron’s court appearance next week in Brooklyn Supreme Court, said the murderer could still scuttle deal and prolong the agony for Leiby’s family.


Assemblyman Dov Hikind told VIN News, “Ever since a story broke this afternoon, our office has been inundated with calls. It is our understanding that a deal has been reached but things can change. Until this is officially announced, it’s premature to say that this matter is concluded.

“The Kletzky family has been through more than any of us can or should imagine. They want to bring this to a conclusion without the additional pain of a lengthy trail.
“I will be at the court next week to address the public and press on behalf of the Kletzky family, at their request. The family asks that their privacy is respected. They have been through quite enough.”


“At any moment, Levi Aron can change his mind,” Hikind said. “Until this is officially announced, things can change.”
Aron faced life without parole if he had been convicted by a jury of first-degree murder.


But Leiby’s parents couldn’t face the agony of a trial. And the dead boy’s dad, Nacham Kletzky, had been discussing the plea with leaders in the Jewish community, sources said.“They don't want to have any more open wounds,” a family friend said. Leiby’s family wants “to bring this to a conclusion,” Hikind added.“The family has to live with this for the rest of their lives,” he said. “The idea of having a trial was not something that they wanted to go through. They want to make sure that there is justice.”


Neither prosecutors nor the defense lawyers for the confessed child killer, Howard Greenberg and Pierre Bazile, would comment on the pending deal.


But still-seething neighborhood residents said Aron should never be allowed to walk free again.


“He’s an animal,” said 50-year-old Charles Gazal. “It's not enough. The way he cut the kid's body up, he should be gone for the rest of his life. He's just an animal. Everyone here was shaken last year.”


In Leiby’s old building on 15th Avenue, where his parents no longer live, a 35-year-old mother of three said Aron’s punishment is “the least he deserves.You’re not going to bring Leiby back either way though,” she added.


A father of two who also lives in the building, and identified himself only as M. Gottlieb, said Aron “should be in for life.”“It’s very hard to take such a piece of news,” he said. “We wouldn't expect any punishment except life in prison.”


"Brooklyn Butcher"after the sickening details of his crime were revealed, is accused of snatching the lost boy off the street last July.


Aron held Leiby captive for more than a day, then smothered him in a panic when he realized a massive search was underway, police said. Under police questioning, Aron admitted that he chopped up the body and left the boy's feet in his freezer.


Aron’s lawyers insist their client, who has grown morbidly obese in jail, is schizophrenic and have vowed to pursue an insanity defense. Recently, Aron’s defense team turned over the results of a psychiatric exam by their expert to prosecutors.

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