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Three were acquitted on all charges.
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_16228026
Three acquitted in videotaped 2009 beating of Jesse Bethel High student
Juror says prosecution case hurt by gang, torture allegations
By Tony Burchyns/Times-Herald staff writer
Published By Times Herald
Posted: 10/01/2010 12:49:22 PM PDT
FAIRFIELD - Three defendants were acquitted of felony charges Friday morning stemming from a 2009 campus brawl that left a 17-year-old Jesse Bethel High School basketball player seriously injured.
Following nearly two hours of deliberation Thursday and Friday, a Solano County Superior Court jury found Ray Tili, Ron Tili and Kevin Young not guilty of assaulting and torturing Bryant Lee.
The defendants also faced gang charges.
The Jan. 15, 2009 after-school fight gained widespread media attention because it was captured by Bethel security cameras.
However, video released to the media only showed part of the fight.
During closing arguments Thursday, Solano County Deputy District Attorney Bryan Kim told jurors the crime was deliberate. Kim said the suspects repeatedly punched, kicked and stomped on Lee even after he was subdued and locked in a choke hold.
Defense attorneys, however, argued that it was Lee's teammates and others who started the fight.
Lee suffered serious injuries and was briefly in a coma. He was hospitalized for several days and at one point placed on a ventilator.
Eight people were indicted in the attack. Five other suspects face the same charges, but no trial date has been set.
The defendants, all 20, have spent nearly one year and nine months in jail before their release Friday.
After the verdict was read, one juror said the prosecution's case was foiled by the video.
"I think we were pretty close to a verdict by the time we got (into the jury room)," said the juror, who asked to remain anonymous. "The video really helped."
The jury also found that the brawl, which lasted just a few minutes, did not constitute "torture" even though one participant was badly hurt.
"It was a fight," the juror said. "How can you say that's torture?"
Defense attorney Tom Gill said afterward, "They (the defendants) didn't start this fight, but they did finish it."
Defense attorneys told jurors in closing arguments Thursday that the fight was "personal" between two groups of friends, not gangs.
Kim, the deputy district attorney, was unavailable for comment after the verdict
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_16228026
Three acquitted in videotaped 2009 beating of Jesse Bethel High student
Juror says prosecution case hurt by gang, torture allegations
By Tony Burchyns/Times-Herald staff writer
Published By Times Herald
Posted: 10/01/2010 12:49:22 PM PDT
FAIRFIELD - Three defendants were acquitted of felony charges Friday morning stemming from a 2009 campus brawl that left a 17-year-old Jesse Bethel High School basketball player seriously injured.
Following nearly two hours of deliberation Thursday and Friday, a Solano County Superior Court jury found Ray Tili, Ron Tili and Kevin Young not guilty of assaulting and torturing Bryant Lee.
The defendants also faced gang charges.
The Jan. 15, 2009 after-school fight gained widespread media attention because it was captured by Bethel security cameras.
However, video released to the media only showed part of the fight.
During closing arguments Thursday, Solano County Deputy District Attorney Bryan Kim told jurors the crime was deliberate. Kim said the suspects repeatedly punched, kicked and stomped on Lee even after he was subdued and locked in a choke hold.
Defense attorneys, however, argued that it was Lee's teammates and others who started the fight.
Lee suffered serious injuries and was briefly in a coma. He was hospitalized for several days and at one point placed on a ventilator.
Eight people were indicted in the attack. Five other suspects face the same charges, but no trial date has been set.
The defendants, all 20, have spent nearly one year and nine months in jail before their release Friday.
After the verdict was read, one juror said the prosecution's case was foiled by the video.
"I think we were pretty close to a verdict by the time we got (into the jury room)," said the juror, who asked to remain anonymous. "The video really helped."
The jury also found that the brawl, which lasted just a few minutes, did not constitute "torture" even though one participant was badly hurt.
"It was a fight," the juror said. "How can you say that's torture?"
Defense attorney Tom Gill said afterward, "They (the defendants) didn't start this fight, but they did finish it."
Defense attorneys told jurors in closing arguments Thursday that the fight was "personal" between two groups of friends, not gangs.
Kim, the deputy district attorney, was unavailable for comment after the verdict
damn, they been locked for a year and some change and just now got acquitted?
I mean, they jumped somebody. that's bad. but not like some murder shit. I been jumped before, I don't excpet the assailants to be tried for attempted murder and gang raped in prison for it. it truly is bitch shit to jump someone who's defending a girl who's getting beat on by a man, but I don't agree with attempted murder. I think that charge was put up because of their names and the association with other violence.
that being said, fuck the tilis if they the reason that the emeryville dennys don't stay open. that's some hater shit. I used to fuck with that.
I mean, they jumped somebody. that's bad. but not like some murder shit. I been jumped before, I don't excpet the assailants to be tried for attempted murder and gang raped in prison for it. it truly is bitch shit to jump someone who's defending a girl who's getting beat on by a man, but I don't agree with attempted murder. I think that charge was put up because of their names and the association with other violence.
that being said, fuck the tilis if they the reason that the emeryville dennys don't stay open. that's some hater shit. I used to fuck with that.
Allegedly
Girl got her boys together (victim was with them). She confronts the boy who was with Ron Tilli over some previous altercation. Group of boys (victim and his friends) beat up other boy with Ron, then Ron jumps in to help his friend and he gets beat up too. Afterwards Ron calls his brothers and they rush to the High School to beat up the boys who jumped their brother. The boys either scattered or were not around, the brothers found the girl and started beating her up, victim goes to help her and gets jumped by all six of them.
For some pathetic reason the supporters of this family think it was okay for the adult brothers to go to a high school and exact revenge. They feel that the boy had it coming to him for what happened earlier and that everybody else woulda responded in this manner too so its okay....also that the Vallejo PD is out to get them and the Newspaper as well. I hope for society' sake they use this story as their defense, it'll assure a conviction.
To know the whole story on the family just google the names. From what it sounds like:
The brother that was shot by the police officer robbed the toys r us he worked at....someone here said he stole cash and video games. While he tried to flee on foot he was chased down by cops, he pointed the gun at one of the cops and the cops responded with deadly force. The kicker is that the officer who shot him was a mentor of sorts to the brother who is currently in prison. Thats right, the police officer had previously made attempts to guide the boy toward a positive life but the PD is secretly trying to take the family down.
The brother in jail for murder shot one of his friends in the head and neck cause the dude knocked his brothers **** out in a fight....retaliation sound familiar? On the witness stand he placed the blame on his dead brother.
Apparently 2 of the brothers have been shot before and one has done time for participation in a drive by. After being paroled he was locked up again for being a felon in possesion of a firearm....this parolee was also one of the guys who beat the kid, you'd think he'd know better.
The families house was firebombed as a result of this family's feud with another family. 2 of the boys were severely burned.
This family reps Mac Block....the un-gang. They make un-gang comments and flash un-gang signs in their fam pics on myspace and scream the un-gangs name "mac block" while 6 of them beat up one boy. Don't get it confused though, they are not a gang.
These are the sweet misunderstood warm hearted honor students that hosted softball games and barbecues. Sounds like alot of tragedy that was brought upon by their own actions, kinda hard to empathize.
Go ahead fam, correct anything I wrote that wasn't true.
Girl got her boys together (victim was with them). She confronts the boy who was with Ron Tilli over some previous altercation. Group of boys (victim and his friends) beat up other boy with Ron, then Ron jumps in to help his friend and he gets beat up too. Afterwards Ron calls his brothers and they rush to the High School to beat up the boys who jumped their brother. The boys either scattered or were not around, the brothers found the girl and started beating her up, victim goes to help her and gets jumped by all six of them.
For some pathetic reason the supporters of this family think it was okay for the adult brothers to go to a high school and exact revenge. They feel that the boy had it coming to him for what happened earlier and that everybody else woulda responded in this manner too so its okay....also that the Vallejo PD is out to get them and the Newspaper as well. I hope for society' sake they use this story as their defense, it'll assure a conviction.
To know the whole story on the family just google the names. From what it sounds like:
The brother that was shot by the police officer robbed the toys r us he worked at....someone here said he stole cash and video games. While he tried to flee on foot he was chased down by cops, he pointed the gun at one of the cops and the cops responded with deadly force. The kicker is that the officer who shot him was a mentor of sorts to the brother who is currently in prison. Thats right, the police officer had previously made attempts to guide the boy toward a positive life but the PD is secretly trying to take the family down.
The brother in jail for murder shot one of his friends in the head and neck cause the dude knocked his brothers **** out in a fight....retaliation sound familiar? On the witness stand he placed the blame on his dead brother.
Apparently 2 of the brothers have been shot before and one has done time for participation in a drive by. After being paroled he was locked up again for being a felon in possesion of a firearm....this parolee was also one of the guys who beat the kid, you'd think he'd know better.
The families house was firebombed as a result of this family's feud with another family. 2 of the boys were severely burned.
This family reps Mac Block....the un-gang. They make un-gang comments and flash un-gang signs in their fam pics on myspace and scream the un-gangs name "mac block" while 6 of them beat up one boy. Don't get it confused though, they are not a gang.
These are the sweet misunderstood warm hearted honor students that hosted softball games and barbecues. Sounds like alot of tragedy that was brought upon by their own actions, kinda hard to empathize.
Go ahead fam, correct anything I wrote that wasn't true.