From the get-go, police revealed that Rodriguez's blood/alcohol level was twice the legal limit and that he was bicycling the wrong was down Central Avenue in Fremont at the time Tay allegedly struck him. But at Tay's 2024 preliminary hearing, a judge threw out the manslaughter charge, finding that there wasn't even evidence that Tay knew he'd hit anything other than scrap metal, and that a second motorist struck Rodriguez's bicycle afterwards without noticing it.
OAKLAND - Within the past seven months, a local resident has been convicted of possessing child pornography, charged with having it again, convinced a judge to throw out the new charges, then been arrested and charged once again, court records show. The tumultuous year for 47-year-old Jeffrey Murdock started back in February, when he pleaded no contest to child pornography possession and was sentenced to probation. Since then, Alameda County investigators say they caught him having it on his electronic devices two separate times.