Eric Kleemeyer shooting death goes to closed Grand Jury, say NO! CALL!

Forwarded from Katrina, cousin of Eric Kleemeyer:

Please distribute widely. Please call the Santa Clara County D.A.s
office 408-299-3099 and complain as a concerned citizen that the Eric
Kleemeyer shooting death should NOT be a closed Grand Jury. Demand an
open Grand Jury!

I called the office today, I forgot to ask who I was speaking to,
someone in the investigators office, was told she would check when the
closed Grand Jury for Eric Kleemeyer starts. I don't know if we can
make enough noise to stop the closed Grand Jury and change to an open
one, but it is worth the effort.

Please do what you can to complain about how serious this is and how
very concerned you are!

in solidarity,
Donna

From: lalowski05 at yahoo.com

Subject: Closed Grand Jury

Date: April 5, 2005 8:33:14 PM PDT

After all of our efforts, they decided to keep it a closed grand jury.
This is not the end for us though. We will continue to fight this.
This is a link to the San Jose Mercury News article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/
11310066.htm. After reading the article, my mother sent this e-mail to
the author:
Hi Crystal,

I read the article in today's paper and just wanted to clear some
things up for you. We had originally requested an open grand jury when
we first met with Karen and Peter. I'm not sure what Karen is talking
about in saying that we met with her "at length" because the one and
only meeting Sue, Tony and I had with Karen was all but 1/2 hour if
that. In my book that isn't a meeting "at length".

How does Karen know that there hasn't been a public misunderstanding,
when the DA's office hangs up on the public and is told that George
Kennedy doesn't want to talk to them, and that they have to have a
lawyer in order to talk to the DA's office. This is what happened last
Friday when we had asked the public to call the DA's office and request
that the Kleemeyer case change to an open grand jury. Does this type
of response from the DA's office instill public trust?

We were just told last week that Peter was no longer on the case and
that it was assigned to Dan. We were told at that time that the grand
jury was meeting on 4/5 to 4/8 and not at the end of June as originally
planned. We really didn't have time to respond.

Eric's family and the public really believe that the DA's office is
representing the police officers that murdered Eric and not
representing Eric and his family. We have talked to so many people who
have shared heart wrenching stories of similar experiences. We have
also learned that the SCPD is harassing Eric's friends an in one case
going into San Jose to do so. Stay tuned for yet another possible law
suit against SCPD on this one. We will keep you posted.

I guess that when Karen says that "our version of the events are not
based on hard facts" that she is backing the SCPD report and not what
the eye witnesses have stated. So the message the DA's office is
sending to the public is that "The Police are Above the Law" and that
the DA's office will protect and represent the police and not the
public.

When we met with Dan this past week we were told that we would not have
access to the facts.....that all testimony would be sealed. So, why
are we getting conflicting information from the DA's office?

Thanks Crystal and if you need to contack either Sue or myself (Cindy),
here is our contact information:

Cindy Lalowski
cindylalowski [at] hotmail.com
408-839-1394

Sue Reardon
shaxton3 [at] netzero.com
408-410-5105

This is the latest information. Thank you for all of your help with
this matter.
~Katrina~