Watching the evidence

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Catholics rally in Los Angeles
Group urges easing of immigration laws
media, speakers also demanded legislation the United States. In a statement issued Thursthat would maintain policies that make it day, she referred to such immigrants as “good
easier for immigrants’ relatives to follow their citizens without citizenship.”
LOS ANGELES — Southern California family members into the United States.
At the close of Tuesday’s event, diocesan
Catholics urged Sen. Dianne Feinstein and
“Workers must have a path to citizenship so representatives carried boxes full of signature
other legislators to embrace changes to immithat we don’t have a permanent underclass,” cards to the senator’s offices. Solis said about
gration law that would make it easier for said Bishop Oscar Solis, director of the Arch45,000 California Catholics signed cards that
illegal immigrants to become legal U.S. resi- diocese of Los Angeles’ Justice and Peace petitioned Feinstein to support pro-immigrant
dents.
Office.
policies.
By Andrew Edwards
Staff Writer
About 30 people drawn from Catholic and
Representatives of Feinstein’s office could
Jeanette Arnquist, director of the San BerJennifer Cappuccio/For The Sun
pro-immigrant groups stood outside the white not be reached for comment Tuesday. The nardino Diocese’s office of social concerns, Jeanette Arnquist, center, who works for the San
stone-and-glass tower in west Los Angeles senator favors a legalization process for ille- helped carry the messages to Feinstein’s staff- Bernardino Diocese, protests Tuesday at the office of
where Feinstein has offices. Addressing the gal immigrants who are already working in
See RALLY ❘ Page A4 Sen. Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles.
EX-DEPUTY GETS HIS DAY IN COURT
Watching the evidence
Jury views
videotape
as Webb’s
trial begins
Charter cutting jobs, moving
after state slashes its funding
By Charlotte Hsu
Staff Writer
Financially troubled Gorman Learning Center of
Redlands is closing all of its campuses by Thursday
and will move its headquarters to Los Angeles
County before September.
By Rod Leveque
Staff Writer
SAN BERNARDINO —
Attorneys painted vastly different portraits of the evidence
Tuesday during opening statements in the trial of Ivory J.
Webb Jr., the former San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy
accused of shooting an unarmed
man at the end of a high-speed
car chase in Chino.
A prosecutor portrayed Webb
as a rogue officer who failed to
follow procedures and unreasonably shot off-duty Air Force
Senior Airman Elio Carrion,
even as a compliant Carrion
tried to surrender to the deputy
after the chase.
Deputy District Attorney
Lewis Cope showed jurors a
dark, grainy video recording of
the shooting made by an amateur cameraman, and told them
it would be a key piece of evidence as the trial unfolds.
“It will be up to you to decide
whether Mr. Webb should have
shot,” Cope said. “It will be up
to you to look at the evidence in
its entirety.”
Webb’s attorney, meanwhile,
characterized his client as an
honest, hard-working lawman
who found himself in a dark,
dangerous and frightening scenario while trying to arrest two
dangerous chase suspects.
He told jurors Carrion antagonized Webb repeatedly during
the encounter by not following
orders, and said the deputy only
shot because he honestly
“
(Detectives) really
worked tirelessly
to get this done.
From the time they
got on the plane to
go over there, to
working with the
Sheriff’s Department, things moved
pretty quickly.”
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The charter school will continue to offer independent study, said Kim Clark, board president.
The school said the cutback also means laying off
87 employees, effective Thursday.
The crisis is a result of a state order that trimmed
40 percent of the public money the school was
anticipating for this year and next.
An audit requested by the Los Angeles County
Office of Education found that Gorman had claimed
$7.7 million in undeserved state funding over three
years.
Photos by Therese Tran/Staff Photographer
Former San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory J. Webb Jr. greets defense lawyer Michael
Schwartz in San Bernardino Superior Court on Tuesday. Webb is charged with attempted voluntary
manslaughter and assault with a firearm for shooting Senior Airman Elio Carrion in January 2006.
believed Carrion reached into
his jacket for a weapon and was
about to charge forward.
“My client did not want to
shoot anybody,” defense attorney Michael Schwartz said. “He
did not want to use his weapon
that night.”
Webb, 46, is charged with
attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm in
connection with the Jan. 29,
2006, shooting.
He is the first law-enforcement officer known to have
been charged in an on-duty
shooting in San Bernardino
County history.
The shooting followed a pur-
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TIMELINE: Follow the case
involving former San Bernardino
County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory J.
Webb Jr., who is charged with
attempted voluntary
manslaughter and assault with
a firearm for shooting Senior
Airman Elio Carrion in January
2006 in Chino.
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Carrion’s parents sit in court on Tuesday
during opening statements in Webb’s trial.
Webb shot Carrion at the end of a
high-speed car chase in Chino. The
incident was caught on tape, and both the
prosecution and defense showed the tape
See TRIAL ❘ Page A6 to jurors in court on Tuesday.
■ Check out past stories about the
shooting incident.
■ See past photo galleries covering
the incident.
■ See more photos from former
sheriff’s Deputy Ivory J. Webb Jr.’s
first day in court.
Trail doesn’t end with suicide
Man linked to firefighter’s death
By Melissa Pinion-Whitt
Staff Writer
The Associated Press
Salvatore Princiotta, a retired New York firefighter,
was found dead in his Arizona apartment May 14.
Authorities suspect Jeffery Lynn Bigham, who
shot himself in San Bernardino after fleeing arrest.
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A man who committed suicide during a police chase Friday
was suspected in the shooting death of a retired New York
firefighter who worked at ground zero in the aftermath of the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Jeffery Lynn Bigham was identified by the Scottsdale
Police Department in Arizona as the suspect in the death of
Salvatore Princiotta. When local and Arizona authorities
tracked Bigham down at a Days Inn in San Bernardino, the
56-year-old Arizona man fled and then shot himself in the
head.
It was a case that began two weeks ago as a suspiciousdeath investigation and developed into a homicide when
coroner’s officials in Maricopa County, Ariz., determined
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Gorman will shutter its learning centers in Redlands, Rancho Cucamonga, Lancaster, Pasadena,
Pomona, Saugus and Whittier, Clark said. Students
used to visit those sites for group-learning sessions
and to socialize with fellow Gorman attendees.
“I’m very pleased with the reconfiguration,” Clark
said. “I think that it’s going to be a more efficient
operation and … I think we’ll emerge as a stronger
organization because of it. I’m also very pleased
with the level of support that we’re receiving from
parents and (teachers) wanting Gorman to continue.”
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