The Times-Standard, September 26, by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_10564629

“The prosecution has a real problem,” said University of California Berkeley School of Law professor Franklin Zimring.… “That means that either the jury wasn’t aware of (the statute of limitations for misdemeanors), or that there’s somebody brilliant on the jury who found a way to reprimand the chief without really convicting him.”