{"id":1108,"date":"2010-10-15T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2024-02-18T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:00:50","slug":"michael-harris-convicted-of-voluntary-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/michael-harris-convicted-of-voluntary-manslaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Harris convicted of voluntary manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was recently in the Chronicle when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/crime\/detail?entry_id=67841\">Harris was acquitted<\/a>, mostly because a prominent defense attorney was on the jury<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A San Francisco homicide trial notable for the presence of a prominent defense attorney on the jury ended in deadlock Tuesday &#8212; but not before the panel cleared the defendant of first-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.<br \/>\nThe jury split 7-5 in favor of guilt on a voluntary-manslaughter charge against Mikel (sic) Harris, 45, in the May 8, 2009, death of Andre Fluker, 41, outside Harris&#8217; room in a Tenderloin residential hotel.<br \/>\nRead more: http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/crime\/detail?entry_id=67841#ixzz0zW2DCbsI<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the incident happened at The Dalt hotel, on the first block of Turk street, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/1087-quote-of-the-day-and-McDonalds-bookstore.html\">same building as the beloved and legendary McDonalds Books<\/a> where a friend of mine lives and when it first appeared in the news last year, I sent him a link, and then he sent me back an email, which included info about a restraining order my friend had against Harris because it turns out he lived right below Harris and had been harrased by him. This was included in this post right here on Bluoz<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Gg9608DC6o\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/Murder-at-the-Dalt\/\">Murder at the Dalt<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Murder at the Dalt&#8221; &#8212; Bluoz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/Murder-at-the-Dalt\/embed\/#?secret=G2DyVSTjv0#?secret=Gg9608DC6o\" data-secret=\"Gg9608DC6o\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nwhen the acquittal verdict was reached and appeared in the Chronicle, I made reference to this last link in the comment section that there may have been more to the story the jury never heard about, and sure enough, there was. You &#8216;ll see in the comments that Bluoz was contacted by the assistant District Attorney, Asit Panwala, and I then hooked them up via email and my friend ended up testifying at the new trial which concluded yesterday with a guilty verdict on a new charge of &#8216;voluntary manslaughter. A short statement yesterday from Asit just after the verdict was reached<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe jury came back today with a conviction on voluntary manslaughter.<br \/>\nThey also found true the allegation that the defendant used a deadly<br \/>\nweapon, a knife.   The defendants faces at most 12 years.   The jurors<br \/>\ncommented that the short amount of time that the victim went out of view<br \/>\nfrom the camera suggested that this was not self defense because not much<br \/>\ncould have happened.<br \/>\nYours,<br \/>\nAsit S. Panwala<br \/>\nAssistant District Attorney<br \/>\nSan Francisco District Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>for some strange reason, the Chronicle isn&#8217;t reporting it this time. and if anyone had any doubt before, blogs can and DO help with crime<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5112258503\/\" title=\"michael.harris.sf.police by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1060\/5112258503_da504c5295.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"500\" alt=\"michael.harris.sf.police\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was recently in the Chronicle when Harris was acquitted, mostly because a prominent defense attorney was on the jury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[21,19],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-mid-market","category-4-San-Francisco","tag-mid-market","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}