{ Scott Dyleski } Killer's housemates lose key court ruling

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/16/7 | Henry K. Lee

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A federal judge has dismissed the bulk of a civil rights lawsuit that accused Contra Costa sheriff's deputies of traumatizing the housemates of Scott Dyleski as they searched for Dyleski after the killing of Pamela Vitale, the wife of lawyer and television commentator Daniel Horowitz.

Deputies had the right to enter the home on Hunsaker Canyon Road without warrants, as they believed Dyleski might be destroying evidence, U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote in a ruling Monday.

Kim and Fred Curiel and their three children, along with Mike Sikkema and his wife, Hazel McClure, and their two children, said deputies threatened them at gunpoint during the October 2005 raid, using profanity and violating their rights.

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Alsup, William Haskell

Born 1945 in Jackson, MS

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California
Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 24, 1999, to a seat vacated by Thelton Eugene Henderson; Confirmed by the Senate on July 30, 1999, and received commission on August 17, 1999.

Education:
Mississippi State University, B.S., 1967

Harvard University, J.D., 1971

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, M.P.P., 1971

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Justice William O. Douglas, Supreme Court of the United States, 1971-1972
Private practice, San Francisco, CA, 1972-1978
Assistant to U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1978-1980
Private practice, San Francisco, CA, 1980-1998
Special counsel, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998
Private practice, San Francisco, CA, 1998-1999


Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

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This case will never go away.

Click on keyword ScottDyleski or SusanPolk for the history of this sorry case.

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Here's the Reader's Digest version: While Daniel Horowitz was defending Susan Polk against charges that she had murdered her husband, Felix Polk, Scott Dyleski broke into Horowitz's house and murdered his wife, Pamela Vitale.

Polk and Dyleski have both been convicted.