The former vice -mayor of Santa Clara, Anthony Becker, sentenced 40 non -consecutive days in County prison – The Mercury News

After a legal battle of almost two years which rocked the community of Santa Clara, Anthony Becker, the former vice mayor who resigned in December following his conviction for perjury, was sentenced to 40 days in county prison which he will serve in a non -consecutive manner on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Judge Javier Alcala announced the decision on Friday morning before the County Court of Santa Clara to Morgan Hill following excuses from Becker – the first time he said it publicly – “to the inhabitants of Santa Clara for this long test.”

The members of the municipal council of Santa Clara, Kevin Park and Suds Jain, also pleaded the judge, asking for the leniency for a friend whom they described as a worker and a “dedicated civil servant”.

The District Prosecutor of Santa Clara, Jeff Rosen, and the deputy district prosecutor Jason Malinsky, asked Alcala a “important prison sentence” in a January note to the judge. The prosecutors argued that the former head of Santa Clara “had not shown remorse”, invoking a report which said that Becker declared to his probation agent that he thought that his conviction was “of politics” and that “justice was not rendered”. But the county’s probation service and one of Becker’s lawyers – deputy public defender Chris Montoya – asked him to receive only probation.

Alcala’s decision comes almost two years after the charging of Becker in April 2023 for him for a bomb of the bomb of the Grand Civil Jury of the County of Santa Clara on the influence of the 49ers of San Francisco on the city of Santa Clara, then to it under oat. His highly anticipated trial began the day after last year’s election day, in which the failed re -election offer from Becker made him fall in a three race for his headquarters of the District 6 Council.

The accusation called more than a dozen witnesses in several weeks, while the defense did not call any and Becker refused to take a stand. On December 5, after only a few hours of deliberation, the jury returned to the courtroom with their verdict, judging Becker guilty of having violated his duty as a civil servant of the government, then appeared later before a great jury investigating on the source of the flight.

The report to the center of the Becker trial was a “anti -portive conduct” – a report by the great civil jury of the County of Santa Clara in 2022 which was to be published a few weeks before the day of the ballot. At the time, Becker defying mayor Lisa Gillmor for her seat.

But the report, which sent shock waves via Santa Clara, was disclosed several days before it was made public. The 49ers spent a lot for the town hall elections in 2022 and spent more than $ 1.4 million trying to have Tecker and another $ 1 million attacking Gillmor.

The NFL team described the “ax work” report and was revealed to the trial that the 49ers studied if one of the jurors who wrote the report was biased.

The accusation has relied heavily on his star witness: Rahul Chandhok, the former 49ers communications chief. Chandhok, who is now working for the Federation of the United States of Football, testified that Becker had disclosed the report to him.

Throughout the trial, Becker’s lawyers fought to launch a doubt in the mind of the jury and argued that he was not the only one to have access to the report before he was public.

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