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One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO (theguardian.com)
He grew up in San Jose, and at the age of 25 sold his second online advertising company to Yahoo for $300 million just nine years ago. Friday Gurbaksh Chahal was sentenced to one year in jail for violating his probation on 47 felony charges from 2013, according to an article in The Guardian submitted by an anonymous Slashdot reader:
Police officials said that a 30-minute security camera video they obtained showed the entrepreneur hitting and kicking his then girlfriend 117 times and attempting to suffocate her inside his $7 million San Francisco penthouse. Chahal's lawyers, however, claimed that police had illegally seized the video, and a judge ruled that the footage was inadmissible despite prosecutors' argument that officers didn't have time to secure a warrant out of fear that the tech executive would erase the footage.
Without the video, most of the charges were dropped, and Chahal, 34, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor battery charges of domestic violence... In Silicon Valley, critics have argued that Chahal's case and the lack of serious consequences he faced highlight the way in which privileged and wealthy businessmen can get away with serious misconduct.. On September 17, 2014, prosecutors say he attacked another woman in his home, leading to another arrest.
Friday Chahal was released on bail while his lawyer appeals the one-year jail sentence for violating his probation.
Without the video, most of the charges were dropped, and Chahal, 34, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor battery charges of domestic violence... In Silicon Valley, critics have argued that Chahal's case and the lack of serious consequences he faced highlight the way in which privileged and wealthy businessmen can get away with serious misconduct.. On September 17, 2014, prosecutors say he attacked another woman in his home, leading to another arrest.
Friday Chahal was released on bail while his lawyer appeals the one-year jail sentence for violating his probation.
must be good to have that sort of money.
I see that the SJW articles are still in full swing.
We dont care about this stuff.
Chahal's lawyers, however, claimed that police had illegally seized the video, and a judge ruled that the footage was inadmissible despite prosecutors' argument that officers didn't have time to secure a warrant out of fear that the tech executive would erase the footage.
A warrant is a phone call away; arresting the guy and then calling in a warrant to search for video evidence when seeing cctv isn't that hard nor time consuming.
All it takes is one Judge who follows the law to shut down crooked cops and now a violent offender is getting away with minimal sentencing.
Good job, cops.
Trump would not approve
I fail to see how videotaped 100% clear proof of violent crime can be ignored because the police break a rule when obtaining it. Punish the police AND the lawbreaker. Letting the sociopath go free makes YOU liable for his future crimes.
I realize that when it's convenient to the narrative, Indians are "white" but if this guy had been actually white then God help him as he'd have been lucky to make it to court before the SJW lynch mob[0] got to him.
[0] Too soon?
Fucking cunt probably had it coming.
They had to charge him with what they could prove and the judge took away their evidence. The dude is still a scumbag, though. If you are really that worried about it, just get rid of private defense lawyers and then the rich & powerful will have reason to make sure that private defenders are actually good at what they do.
Wait, never mind. Found him.
He should get a year in jail just for creating an advertising company.
Isn't it interesting how this PoC stopped being a PoC and has now become an Evil Male Oppressor[tm]? In just about every other context in the world, he would be the protected one due to his race, but apparently now he's just a generic male and can be treated as our society treats such. Police oppressing a PoC, hello? Where's the outrage about the police mistreating him? The evidence was ruled inadmissible. Judging by all the other recent incidents, there should be parties in the street that the charges have been dropped. The prosecutorial overreach still nailed him with two charges and now he's headed into the overcrowded prison system where he will learn nothing but better ways of being a criminal.
In Silicon Valley, critics have argued
After being trained by Wikipedia, a [who?] automatically appears whenever I hear this kind of "critics say" nonsense. Who are these critics, what did they say, and I'd like a link to their comments. It's just goddamn common courtesy.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
The accuser just wants his money to be hers, and to punish him for not giving enough of it to her.
Vai dar teu cuxinho que passa tua vontade de ficar me trollando sua anã retardada. Porra meu.
I don't need to hurt my own hand that much. One punch in the head of that retarded stalker and no teeth will make she realize she isn't that nice.
I'm sorry but the only reason he wasn't convicted was because the tape wasn't admissible? If some ass hits and kicks his girlfriend 117 times I'm calling in the forensics team because there's going to be the girlfriends blood in the apartment and on his clothes. They will find her blood which will corroborate her statement. Then it doesn't matter if he deleted the video. Besides from the sounds of it he doesn't really sound smart enough to securely delete so that a digital forensics team couldn't retrieve it.
But if all you are going into your trial with is a tape that the police questionably obtained (the lawyer should have seen this coming) then what is your police department and prosecutors office doing with their time because it certainly isn't preparing for cases.
Well the thing with that is if police can just do whatever they want to obtain evidence to throw you in jail, then they can practically throw anybody they want in jail[...].
Just to bolster the poster's thought, consider that police are now generally allowed to shoot unarmed blacks for no cause so long as they say that they "I thought he had a gun".
When this was allowed, the number of police shooting unarmed black people has skyrocketed.
And in other news, the police that were involved in Freddie Gray's death while in custody were all acquitted.
Pattern:
From the sources one can make a prediction by just looking at that pattern, and the knowledge about other people[1] that have exert these patterns: they are very likely to exert these patterns again.
Prediction on his longterm whereabouts:
So my prediction is unless he undergoes successful counseling he is doomed to do it again and again and again, till the point he is sent to prison for life under the three-strikes rule.
Lawyers can find caveats however at a point in time these caveats will run out (appear less frequently or no more) because higher profile people will takeover cases that leave very few caveats.
Prediction on the fallout:
The very sad thing is that on a way to life imprisonment a perpetrator will violate other people or even kill.
Avoiding measures:
And here "social justice" can be relevant, because the public knows about his behavioural pattern, possible victims can avoid him if they just google his name - which is common practice even for dating.
Circle of violence is set in motion:
However as perpetrators show these patterns, vicitims[2] show them too[3]. So even with the choice of googleling his name it his very likely that some will reenter a partnership with him and possibly this behavioural pattern will re-appear.
Ways to break the circle:
Tina Turner is a prominent example of a former victim that has successfully broken out of the circle of violence. However she needed some effort.
But the the initiator of this circle is the perpetrator, and he is the pinpoint to break this circle stop producing victims.
final prediction
We will hear from him again.
[1] perpetrator example
prominent case example1: O. J. Simpson
[2] victim example
prominent case example2: Tina Turner
[3] pattern:
abused girlfriend will go back to abusive partner after partner asures it was just a misshap, that happens again and again and again.
Or did she took his hand and punched herself?
But there is a problem indeed, there are people that state false accusations shining a bad light on the 90% real cases and give simplists like yourself a run for their money.
They could have immediately detained him while they got the warrant. That's what detention was specifically designed for. FFS get a warrant. This article should be about the officers ineptness in following proper procedure. There is a procedure for a reason. It's not perfect but it protects a lot more people than it harms.
And why could not this case be a two separate legal problems?
1) he abused his girffriend
2) police violated his privacy
A) punish the guy for abuse
B) punish responsible in police for violation of privacy
So let me get this straight... If police have olfactory evidence of drugs they can search for and seize evidence. If they have visual evidence of abuse they cannot do the same? This dumbass accidentally collects evidence of his crime and stores it at the scene and the police cannot use it? He might as well have left a written confession of the crime in his room.
Any woman that gets with this guy after this deserves it. I'm not about blaming victims in hindsight but I will gladly do it in foresight given this man's background.
And that was entirely proper: evidence that was obtained illegally should be inadmissible.
No, at best it is an example that the law is working correctly for "privileged and wealthy businessmen" (although it is difficult to see in what way a minority high school drop-out was privileged). If the legal system doesn't work like that for someone less "privileged and wealthy", then the solution is to make it work correctly for them too.
Apparently, people advocating for minorities and social justice these days are simply out for blood instead of actually working towards improving society.
Did the see the tape before or after seizing it? If they saw it after seizing it, and then based on what they viewed, brought in teams to search for the resulting blood, wouldn't that amount to fruit of the poisoned tree without parallel construction?
We'll see who chokes first!
A women-beating indian douchebag. Enough said.
In very demonstrable ways, the Silicon Valley 'judicial system' is far worse (and misogynist) than even freaking Texas.
He would be in prison now sexualy servicing Bubba for the next 15 years plue another 5 years probation. Double if he was black.
arresting the guy
Arresting someone usually requires a warrant (with some exceptions). Arresting someone in the own dwelling
requires a warrant with even fewer exceptions.
Maybe instead of tossing the evidence, the cop(s) who collected it *must* be terminated and charged. That would certainly dissuade cops from persueing warrantless activities, but it might also help prevent scumbags from getting away because of such misconduct.
I want to be a Silicon Valley CEO. Commit 47 felonies and only get a year in jail.
Where do I sign up?
filthy pooinloo indian shit, subhuman scum, just put a bullet in his head and his family too. Make a video and put it up for all to see. Indians are the scum of the earth.
Madoff got sent to jail because he made the mistake of screwing over rich and powerful people. If he just screwed over us peons, he'd be on some tropical island getting caviar licked off his dick by porn actresses and still have most of his ill gotten gains less the peanuts he would have been fined.
I guess I haven't checked in for a few years ... when did the comments section turn into an absolute cesspool of misogyny and hatred? This is disgusting. Won't be back.
2013 - PoS assaults girlfriend. Lawyers work magic and get video evidence barred. PoS s convicted of lesser crime. PoS gets probation. Grrr. OK.
2014 - PoS assaults another woman, violating probation. Case drags on until 2016(!).
2016 - PoS finally gets sentenced to 1 year in jail. Instead of going to jail, PoS is released on bail pending appeal. Grrr. This is ridiculous.
That's three years, two violent assaults, two convictions and this fucker has still not been jailed. WTF?
So, remind me again what political party controls San Francisco from top to bottom?
Oh, and here's a data point: Gurbaksh Chahal gave his political donations exclusively to Democrats.
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
Shun him, let him piss away his money and become a bag boy.
Milwaukee County Wisconsin 2011CF4463 a lawyer felony-strangles his wife and has it reduced to misdemeanor-battery. Because a lawyer was given lower charges so he could keep his bar card he was able to be not in jail and so the sexual molestation of his 3 year old daughter can happen in MKE 2015CF3592. Now - where did he get the shotgun that ended 2015CF3952 is also a good question given the violations of 18USC922.
And in social engineering style.... FBI flavor.... the very first comment is this.... a fake discussion...
And that is why you follow the law. (Score:5, Insightful)
How stupid are you FBI @ Slashdot? You think the public are just your freemason pawns?
You know this Gurbaksh Chahal, he's such a great guy, successful, young, rich. I propose he be next up on The Bachelor. Or one of those cruel Japanese game shows where the contestants get abuse. Or he joins a medical study for itch powder.
I just know that Chahal is a great catch, keep calling him ladies! What you call him, well that's your business.
Is the premise that rich people should be sentenced differently than poor people?
And we're just supposed to understand that somehow?
It seems to me that if someone has 47 felony charges against him, something a little stronger than probation might be warranted.
I wonder if he knows Hillary Clinton? Oh well, this is a pattern of behavior by our court system to let the rich, powerful and famous do as they please. After all is said and done, "Laws are for peasents."