Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 24

2 LOCAL THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE III I I I I I Retiring assistant DA speaks softly carries Velvet QUIST from Local 1 and blond a concert harp would surely over whelm She's soft spoken almost to the point of whispering but the words come with quick preci sion and a steady eye star ted the harp about six months ago It's a nice change of pace" see: Dissecting evidence of grisly mur ders vs peacefully plucking an angelic instrument yes tnat would quality as a change oi pace Yet she has loved every moment of her job day when you come in you never know what's going to happen" she said love the people I work with the people within the office the police officers the Judges And nothing like working in Oakland So many big cases and challenging ones" Her thoroughness and hawk eye for legal detail have prompted respect not only from her fellow attorneys but from police officers as well something cops say is pretty rare lawyers when they retire cops are prob ably saying glad said DA in spector and former Oakland narcotics officer Jim Kimzey who has known Quist for about 25 years "Not with Sandy OPD has been giving her plaques Hayward cops sent her flowers because when you walked in her of fice you knew you were there with the very best" Kimzey said knew your case better than you Knew it She had already read all the transcripts the preliminary examinations1' is one of the most competent attorneys I have ever said Oakland police Lt Jim Emery who heads up the homicide division and has worked closely with Quist for the past few years not very big a petite person and very Kimzey said If she was in volved in a case there was gonna be a hell of a fight She lives up to her nickname the Velvet Hammer She sneaks up and nails you in the head before you know what Quist was bom in Chicago but has lived in the East Bay since she was a child She went to high school in Castro Valley then on to Santa Clara University majoring in marketing with a philos ophy minor She decided to go into law and earned her degree from Hastings She then began at the district office In Oakland in 1977 In Alameda County attor neys rotate to different offices so Quist worked in Hayward Livermore and Oakland or a couple of years she was in charge of the two person Ala meda office At the Rene Davidson Courthouse in Oakland she served for nine years in the Law and Motion Department which conducts legal re search and analysis for the trial attorneys hand ling all motions from the defense to suppress evidence appeals to the Superior Court and writs And for the past decade Quist has been one of District Attorney Tom right hands I became the DA in 1995 1 made three promotions to our top positions to run major op erations in the office and Sandy was one of Orloff said have tremendous regard for her insight her work ethic her dedication to the Job first assignment was to run the South County operations which was in charge of the Hayward remont and Pleasanton offices" he said in '99 1 rotated her to head of North County which at the time was Oakland Berkeley and Alameda she charges most all of the homi cides coming out of Oakland as well as running the branch he said has total respect from all the investigators both for working closely with them and for holding their feet to the fire She has done Just a great Job marvelous outstanding any kind of positive adjective you want to say" Law enforcement may love her but not ev eryone is a fan especially those now sitting be hind bars Or those who wanted to see someone go to Jail but the evidence support it someone has been victimized they naturally want to have somebody go do something about it and I think a general belief that everyone who is arrested is always charged" Quist said not the case There's a thought pro cess in determining whether to charge a case or not when you make that decision either way somebody on one side of the case is going to be disappointed" she said challenge is to explain to them why we are doing what doing and hope to get them to understand possibly the hardest part of the Quist plans to keep it low key in retirement She is involved in a family literacy program at St Day Home in West Oakland She plans to take some great vacations and spend more time with her mother her sister and her two nieces 17 year old twins And of course practice the harp Why the harp? got the idea from an old Judy Garland movie 1 was watching where playing the harp and it's such a happy firn movie" she said I thought Td try it and I bought a harp and tried to teach myseu men 1 aeciaea i neeaea lessons it's said makes me happy" Many children cared for by grandmothers GRAND from Local 1 parents for many reasons: vio lence neglect abuse mental ill ness divorce drugs military deployment incarceration teen pregnancy poverty and the list goes on Goyer said And the list of problems and issues the grandparents face is equally daunting and compli cated ranging from legal cus tody Issues to financial prob lems health and school disci pline and more And social isolation cleaning nurturing recreation and church I'm doing it all by Williams said going to marry you when raising four crack babies" The conference focused on the wide range of resources available to the grandparents with presenters encouraging them to seek support and guid ance from the national state and local organizations The Bay Area has various kinship support services as well as agencies devoted to coun seling food assistance and more Clara Chock attended the conference Saturday was looking for ideas for raising a teenager Chock and her husband have been raising their grand daughter Antonique since she was 3 months old The girl is now 14 Chock 64 recounted the phone call 14 years ago from Antonlque's older brother one of seven siblings in all Their mother was in Jail the grandson said Chock needed to come get the baby Substance abuse was and is the problem daughter is in jail now on a four month sentence and wants to get into a drug program She should be home by Thanksgiving Chock said tinned my life Chock said of taking on the re sponsibility of raising a baby at age 50 Before the phone call she was semi retired from nursing and taking motorcycle trips with her husband across the country That stopped With her granddaughter a teen Chock said the hardest part of raising her is happening now trying to teach a young woman morals and like that" But Antonique is a good girl with good qualities Chock said calls me Mama" the Berkeley resident said with a smile calls her mother or more information about re sources for grandparents who are caregivers go to wwwAARPorg grandparents or call (888) OUR AARP or contact information for local kinship support services call the state office at (916) 445 6951 Contact Jill Tucker at jtuckerangnewspaperscom (Tletro 510 780 9266 RE ROO WITH THE BEST OR LESS! 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