A Livermore couple charged in a fatal apartment explosion due to illegal drug activity agreed to a plea deal Tuesday, according to a report by the Valley Times.
Evan Aviles, 23, and Lexie Hutson, 23, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and avoided possible life sentences, the Times reported.
The two were .
Officials said the illegal drug activity — reported May 21, 2011 — at Aviles' residence on Silver Oaks Way led to an apartment explosion, which critically injured Aviles, Hutson and San Jose-resident Paul Lom.
Police said Lom, 35, was also involved in the dangerous drug activity. He succumbed to his wounds five days later.
Aviles and Hutson had pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the death of Lom.
On Tuesday Aviles withdrew that plea and pleaded no contest to the lesser count of involuntary manslaughter, according to the Times. Hutson withdrew her plea to second-degree murder and pleaded no contest to being an accessory, the Times reported.
Further details from the Times report:
In exchange for their plea deals with the Alameda County District Attorney's office, Aviles will receive three years in state prison for involuntary manslaughter. Hutson will receive 5 years of felony probation and serve one year in the county jail for being an accessory. The couple also had charges of manufacturing of a controlled substance dismissed as part of the deal.
View the full article on the Valley Times website.
http://www.respi.ru/PR/pr122906PiedmontExhibit.html Which appears to be an archived copy of what the Oakland Public Library once displayed. The word is prominently displayed in the second paragraph. However, "Oaklandization" also goes back earlier than that as a word, used in a Summer 2004 publication from Berkeley called "Copwatch", which you can find the word on Page 3: http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/resources/cwr_summer04.pdf So Mr. Non-Nabisco Not-So-Honey-Made Graham Crackers is going to have to prove that he invented the word, because it's been used even longer than there has been a Livermore "Patch" site for him to use the term as derisively as that poster has. So it appears that this is not Mr. Graham's term, even to copyright. Perhaps he can purchase the domain name, which I see is available, but was once used for a Spanish language website. But that's about as close to a "copyright" he is ever going to see. And given what he has disclosed in this forum about his work at the 3400-3700 block of Piedmont Avenue recently, it could be argued that he is more a catalyst for the "Oaklandization" of Livermore, especially when he brings it home from his work on the site.
What happened to the family after that? All that promise, and perhaps all that repression that they were trying to fight off when it came to their own urges. That's why Dr. Graham invented the Graham Cracker in the first place. So when you write about my supposed proclivities these days, I can't help but wonder if they have roots in all that frustration your ancestor may have been fighting off and teaching to his descendants since then. Where did your branch go wrong? At least the North Carolina branch made something of themselves to the point that they are world-famous for their evangelism. But your branch (as we have seen from you) has embraced more of an ugly negativism. Probably after developing that snack food and letting others pump it full of sugar, honey, corn syrup and even the high-fructose stuff, what was left to capitalize on that development? For a Scottish-American family that has a lot of promise, the branch that gives us the pitiful poster proselytizing "Oaklandization" seems to have fallen way short of the ambitions that the other branches have given us since arriving here back in the 1730s. And to this descendant of English settlers, the rantings of one Scud go pretty much in one ear and out the other, especially from the scion of a clan known for its recalcitrance to English Law and subjugation.
Every time I check Patch I learn something new! Tell me more!
Let me help you get started. http://www.prohibitioncosts.org http://www.hempfarm.org/Papers/Hemp_Facts.html
"it is the people trying to make it at home that is dangerous." Those people are not going to stop and pay top dollar for something they already know how to grow in their closet. This doesn't even get to the argument about our culture being completely incapable of governing its own indulgences. Here's a taste; with the amount of drunks and obese people due to the availability of high calorie food and alcohol, do we really need another vice for our lazy culture to cling to? I can't wait for all of the support groups or even handicap status for stoners who are "addicted" to a pot "disease".
We are basically living in an age of marijuana prohibition. So you're saying we should go back to banning alcohol and snack foods? If people are fat because of snack foods, that is their own inability to have control or be responsible with snack food. So the few should ruin it for the many? I don't think so. Did you even read the links I posted? I am doubting it.