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SAN FRANCISCO: Widow pleads for death penalty
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/27/8 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

Posted on 06/27/2008 7:52:55 AM PDT by SmithL

She says home is cold and silent after husband, 2 sons slain in S.F.

Danielle Bologna can't go back home.

Just a week ago, her two-story house on a quiet street in San Francisco's Excelsior district was a bustling place, crammed with sports gear and trophies and team portraits, where she and her husband of 21 years were raising their four children.

But in just seconds on Sunday, her family was torn apart: Her husband, Tony, 48, and the couple's sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were shot and killed as they drove home from a family barbecue in Fairfield.

What is left at home, for Danielle Bologna, is only stark silence.

"I went back there one time," she said Thursday. "It was extremely cold. It was empty. It was the cold, the silence.

"It was hard seeing my kids' things all over ... my husband's shoes, his work stuff, his clothes, jackets all over."

Danielle Bologna says she wants San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris - who has pledged never to seek the death penalty - to understand a little of what she must endure and to seek the death penalty for her family's killer.

"The district attorney really needs to pay attention - she doesn't have kids, she doesn't know what this means," Bologna said.

Prosecutors filed three counts of murder and other charges Thursday against Edwin Ramos, 21, of El Sobrante, an alleged street gang member who police say opened fire on the Bolognas after their car briefly blocked Ramos from completing a left turn down a narrow street. The charges include special circumstances that could carry the death penalty.

But Harris had long promised to not seek the death penalty in the city. After taking strong criticism for quickly ruling out the death penalty against the gang member ultimately convicted of killing...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; kamalaharris; sanfransiscovalues
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San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has always been more interested in agenda than justice.
1 posted on 06/27/2008 7:52:55 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: NormsRevenge
Follow-Up to CA: Gang member arrested in killing of dad, 2 sons (MS-13, "nothing more than a soccer group")
2 posted on 06/27/2008 7:54:34 AM PDT by SmithL (Look at Hillary's marriage, and tell me she won't settle for second place)
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To: SmithL

What’s wrong with SF? Is there some strange radiation leaking up from the ground that fries peoples’ brains there or something????..............


3 posted on 06/27/2008 7:57:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: SmithL

with this liberal minded prosecutors, I predict the times are very close to citizens taking the laws into their own hands and dispensing quick justice on their own.


4 posted on 06/27/2008 7:59:02 AM PDT by pennboricua
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To: SmithL

Kamala Harris...she is featured in this month’s “MORE” magazine. I believe she is an Obama advisor.


5 posted on 06/27/2008 8:00:07 AM PDT by merry10
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To: Red Badger

The rseult of commie bag fastards.


6 posted on 06/27/2008 8:01:00 AM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: SmithL

“Widow pleads for death penalty...”

Doesn’t she realize where she LIVES?


7 posted on 06/27/2008 8:01:46 AM PDT by WayneS (What the hell is wrong with these people?)
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To: Red Badger

I think there’s still a lot of LSD floating around in the air there.


8 posted on 06/27/2008 8:02:05 AM PDT by SeanOGuano
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San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris - who has pledged never to seek the death penalty

San Fransisco type dims are now running the country, and obama is just another of the ilk trying to take charge. Who is going to be the Republican to stand up to this crap? I'm waiting.....

PS Is the San Fran DA a homo?

9 posted on 06/27/2008 8:03:25 AM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: pennboricua

I agree, had that been my family, I would have gone hunting...start at the bottom and work up...never mind the police you furry little bastards...worry about what I will do to you when I get you.


10 posted on 06/27/2008 8:04:02 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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To: SmithL
Liberals are anti-Death penalty until they are the victim. When this prosecutor is faced with the death of one of her own by the hands of a ruthless scum of the Earth, she may begin to understand. Then again she may not. This is San Francisco.
11 posted on 06/27/2008 8:05:14 AM PDT by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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To: SeanOGuano

Those dumb clowns out there are more interested in legalizing gay/lesbian weddings than good old fashioned justice. It has to happen to one of their own to finally wake up. I pray for this mother in her loss. Something has to “start a ‘reverse’ revolution” out there.


12 posted on 06/27/2008 8:06:51 AM PDT by lildoc511 (USAF pilot vet and longtime lurker!)
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To: SmithL

This story turns my stomach. The death penalty should be applied to the murderers surely and swiftly. Let it be a lesson to the other vermin who think gangs are untouchable.


13 posted on 06/27/2008 8:08:52 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Rumplemeyer

My wife would be out hunting them down too. And had I been left behind so would I.


14 posted on 06/27/2008 8:10:16 AM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
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To: SmithL

The district attorney really needs to pay attention - she doesn’t have kids, she doesn’t know what this means,” Bologna said.

This isn’t going to get Harris’ attention or sympathy. It was just a few typical white people who died. No big deal.


15 posted on 06/27/2008 8:10:16 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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"This is a horrific tragedy most painfully felt by the family and friends of these innocent victims and shared by our entire city," the [District Attorney's] office said in a statement.

When a child is diagnosed with a terminal illness, that's a tragedy. When a subhuman (and probably illegal) gang member murders three innocent citizens in cold blood, it is not a tragedy, it is an outrage.

When the district attorney cannot understand the difference it is pathetic.

16 posted on 06/27/2008 8:12:07 AM PDT by freespirited (A Democrat is a person who lives in fear that someone, somewhere is proud to be an American.)
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To: Rumplemeyer
If just one or two percent of the folks adopted that policy, things would change for the better. After a sufficient culling of the knuckle draggin’ predators and their protectors.
17 posted on 06/27/2008 8:13:21 AM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: SmithL
The day the Lefties in San Francisco will push the death penalty for murder will be a revelation.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

18 posted on 06/27/2008 8:13:57 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Red Badger

San Francisco

no Guns for honest people
only death and Murder, as San Francisco coddles
Murdering Gangsters
Mostly Illegals protected By San Francisco.
Gavin Newsome friend to Killers


19 posted on 06/27/2008 8:18:36 AM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: HiramQuick
The rseult of commie bag fastards.

I dunno but I think you can say fag bastards here at FR.....Hey, "if the foo $h!t$, wear it"!

20 posted on 06/27/2008 8:18:44 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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