DUBLIN — Alameda County prosecutors filed two misdemeanor battery costs in opposition to a 40-year-old man for allegedly spitting on a deputy throughout a cell switch inside Santa Rita Jail, court docket information present.
The person was charged Sept. 15 with two misdemeanor counts of battery on a police officer. Court docket information say he spat on a deputy’s uniform after objecting to being transferred to a special module contained in the jail’s behavioral well being middle.
The 40-year-old man was in jail in lieu of $5,000 bail, after an Aug. 17 arrest for a misdemeanor battery cost. His lawyer has already declared a doubt about his psychological competency and set an October listening to for a choose to guage whether or not each prosecutions can proceed.
Mentally ailing defendants in felony instances who're being bars — both as a result of they'll’t afford bail or a choose gained’t set bail — face a swath of hurdles to discovering therapy in California, together with a statewide lack of beds by the Division of State Hospitals. It has led to an enormous backlog, and sanctions in opposition to the DSH, that usually retains individuals in jail for months after they’ve been discovered mentally unfit for trial.
The Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, too, has been criticized for its lack of psychological healthcare. Final February, within the face of a federal lawsuit, the jail entered right into a federal consent decree that required it to enhance psychological healthcare and cease utilizing “punitive” measures, like isolation or a revocation of out of doors time.