Gangs and Troubled Youth Expert Witness

EDUCATION

1993-1997, Expert 1616 earned his Ph.D. degree from the Claremont Graduate University and received the Phi Delta Kappa (Mt. Baldy Chapter) "Best Dissertation of the Year" award for his pioneering study of a spectrum of children-including gang members-incarcerated in state prisons for murder and homicide. His 4-year in-person/in-prison research of 103 girls and boys was the subject of his doctoral dissertation

1972-1974, The University of Southern California, Teacher Corps Cycle VII, two-year graduate studies program focused on (a) Gangs; and (b) Troubled Youth, California. MSEd. Degree

1965-1972, California State University, B.A. Degree

APPOINTMENT

Expert 1616 is a member of the Panel of Experts of the Los Angeles Superior Court, Foltz Criminal Justice Center

EXPERTISE

Certified as Court Expert Witness by a County Juvenile Court in California, with the following designations:

Gangs

"California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act" (Also called the "S.T.E.P. Act")

CASE EXPERIENCE (partial only)

Gangs/Street Terrorism [For an attorney in California)

My opinion and testimony: Police agency fact-gathering and lapses in documentation, including absent "Field Investigation Card" (F.I.C.), consistently failed to show, in a clear and convincing way, that the juvenile suspect was a member of a gang, or acted in service of that specific gang, or conspired with others to engage in a criminal act against a designated rival gang. Therefore, the charge against the juvenile-"Illegal Gang Activity" enhanced by the charge of " Violation of the S.T.E.P. (Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention," P.C. 186.32 (B) )" act-was without necessary evidence grounded in fact.

Gang-related Homicide

My opinion and testimony: The mortality/morbidity rate of the typical gangbanger's lifestyle is short, limited, and hastened by anti-social, illegal, and homicidal activities. Gangbanger-victim's unfortunate death was brought about by his repeated visits to the subject venue where he deliberately and continuously engaged in aggressive anti-social behaviors and criminal acts that terrorized and harmed others.

Assault and Rape [For an Attorney General]

My opinion and testimony: School District did not, through dereliction of responsibility, breach of duty of care, or negligent indifference, cause the victim-student to be assaulted and raped by the perpetrator-student recently paroled from prison and returned to school.

Triple Murder/Gang Retaliation [For an attorney in Los Angeles County]

My opinion and testimony: School district and social services agency oversight, negligence, incompetence, and reckless disregard for defendant's obvious psychological, educational, and social needs, exacerbated his birth defects (caused by Fetal Alcohol and Drug Syndrome) and eventually stimulated his social aggression, contempt for the law, and a morbid dedication to [committing] acts of homicide.

Student assault/Personal Injury

My opinion and testimony: Previous documented violent events, by the perpetrator-student were ignored by both the social services agency and the student's foster parents. Their combined reckless disregard led to the traumatic assault on the victim-student, and rendered her maimed and partially disabled.

Student Non-Assault Personal Injury [For a Law Group]

My opinion and testimony: Teacher-enunciated admonitions, school district's posted behavior warnings, and student discipline policies were, per California state law, in [permanent] evidence before and during the injury-causing event. School district was not negligent. Student flouted school regulations and violated student discipline policies independently; with disregard, student committed a harmful act against another.

Juvenile Homicide/Gang & Drug Event

My opinion and testimony: His parents' negligence and their pattern and practice of confronting school authorities and students in a hostile manner-including his mother's brandishing a loaded .38 handgun in front of a dozen students in the parking lot-ultimately inspired defendant to commit his act of homicide.

Student Assault/Gang-related

My opinion and testimony: Inadequate training of the subject school's vice principal, and her views that her gang-attire wearing middle school students were "so cute," led directly to negligence in duty of care to supervise; hence, the foreseen event of students engaging in a "gangbang" on the school quad because they knew there was no supervision. Victim-student injured as a result.

Student Assault/Personal Injury

My opinion and testimony: Student's waiting in the student parking lot, for thirty minutes in a downpouring of rain, was in fact an act of lying in wait, prior to his battering and brutalizing the unsuspecting victim such that the car he was repeatedly flung against had to be taken to an auto body shop to repair dents and paint damage. Further, previous conflicts between these two students, known and interrupted by the principal and other administrators, made the victim-student's assault a foreseen event. Equally, the principal failed to exercise his standard duty of care.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003-present, Instructor, Master's Degree Program, the University of Phoenix, Courses: Child and Adolescent Development and Teacher-training courses

2002-present, Instructor, Police Sciences Curriculum, El Camino Community College, California, Course: Administration of Justice: Juvenile Delinquency and Legal Procedures

1999-2000, Director, Pupil Personnel Services, Unified School District, (24,000 students - 31 schools) and Director, Student Attendance Review Board (S.A.R.B.) No. 21, at the Norwalk Superior Court, Prosecuted, for the L.A. County District Attorney, parents and children in violation of school attendance laws. Designed and co-conducted, with Sheriff Dept., "Stop-Crimes-on-Campus" programs: Drug-Dog Sniffing Program; Juvenile Citation-into-Court Program (for gang activity, graffiti-tagging, vandalism, fighting, alcohol possession, profanity, drug possession and use); and specialized gang diversion programs such as G.R.I.P., "Gang Reduction Intervention Program" and the "Gang Awareness Project" (G.A.P.), both of which were coordinated with local law enforcement.

1995-1999, Consultant, Public School Law, L.A. County Office of Education, Advisor to 81 school districts in L. A. County, state laws pertaining to child welfare and school attendance, student violence, suspensions and expulsions, gang activity/violence and parents' roles and responsibilities, helped to write the L.A. County" Anti-Truancy Ordinance

1991-1995, Producer, Educational Television, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Produced focused programs: gang awareness and education; interviews with the State of CA Superintendent of Schools; curriculum series involving Institutes of Higher Education (IHE's): USC, Claremont Graduate University, and UCLA; and a widely-acclaimed special program I conceived, produced and hosted following the 1992 Los Angeles riot: "Let's Not Experience it Again."

1973-1991, Teacher, Juvenile Court Schools and Probation Camps, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Taught high school-level subjects to gang members and other incarcerated juveniles.

HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

"Certificate of Recognition" from the California State Legislature, for book

The Neil Matsumora Scholarship, University of Southern California

The Phi Delta Kappa, Mt. Baldy Chapter, "Best (Doctoral) Dissertation of the Year" Award for four-year in-prison/in-person research on children who killed

President-Elect of the California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance (CASCWA)

Association of California School Administrators (ACSA)

The California Teachers Association (CTA)

Associate Member of the American Bar Association

Associate Member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association

Associate Member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Member of Consumer Attorneys of California

Affiliate of T.A.S.A. (Technical Advisory Services for Attorneys)

Affiliate of Martindale-Hubbell Expert Witness Services for Attorneys

CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS

Board member of G.O.O.D. ("Gangs Out of Downey") Organization, Other G.O.O.D.

Rotary International District No. 1774

OTHER INFORMATION

Expert 1616 is one of the nation's foremost gang, troubled youth, school safety and youth violence experts, and is a regular guest expert on television and radio. He is quoted by a range of publications, from TRIAL magazine to the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post Media Group to the Baca Raton Times to the Atlanta Journal Constitution to the Long Beach Press Telegram to Seventeen Magazine. He spent 48 months inside California Youth Authority state youth prisons interviewing and studying 103 girls and boys, among them gang members, incarcerated for committing murder and homicide.

The only researcher in the country allowed to go inside prisons and behind bars to get the life stories of a spectrum of children who killed, Expert 1616 wrote a nationally acclaimed book as a result of his four-year study. Referred to on CNN as the "The smart answer for today's troubled times," his book has a wide readership among school administrators, teachers, social workers, attorneys, law enforcement officers, districts attorney, probation officers, members of the clergy, psychologists, medical doctors, judges, and students themselves. Expert 1616 coined the word "adolescentcide," meaning children who kill other children.

PROPRIETARY PUBLICATIONS and INVOLVEMENT WITH OTHERS

Available upon request

KEYWORDS

Gangs Expert Witness, Street Terrorism Expert Witness, Juvenile Homicide Expert Witness, Troubled Youth Expert Witness, School Safety Expert Witness, Juvenile Violence Expert Witness, Personal Injury Expert Witness, Youth Homicide Expert Witness, Weapons Expert Witness, Drugs Expert Witness, Assault Expert Witness, Gang Related Homicide Expert Witness, Gang Related Violence Expert Witness, California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act Expert Witness, S.T.E.P. Act Expert Witness, Gang Retaliation Expert Witness, Student Assault Expert Witness, Child Development Expert Witness, Adolescent Development Expert Witness, Gang Awareness Expert Witness

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