Sherrice Iverson Case

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Jeremy Strohmeyer, 19. a California teenager, sexually assaulted and strangled a7-year-old girl in the bathroom ofa Nevaua casino while her father was gambling intheearly morning hours of May 25, 1997.Mr. Strohmeyerisaccused of following Sherrice Iverson into the women's restroom of the Primmadonra casino inPrimm, Nev., a small town about 40 miles south of Las Vegas, and attacking her in a handicapped stall beforestrangling her ano breaking her neck.The gifl had been left to playinan arcaoe by her father, who was gambling elsewhere in the casino.Mr.Strohmeyer and his high school friend. David Cash, were in the arcaoe waiting for Mr. Cash's father to finishgambling.Mr. Cash - who witnessed the beginning of the attack and did not report it or intervene - has not been charged withany crime.Law: The Baa Samaritan A friend told David Cash he hao committed murder. Cash kept quiet ;CathyBoothfBerkeley With reporting by David Willwerth/Berkeley; ; Time; 09-07-1998;He was just an innocent bystander, he says. A bystander who peered over the top of a toilet stall and discovered-inthe women's rest room of a casino on the California-Nevada border-his best friend Jeremy Strohmeyer, 18,struggling with a seven-year-old girl. He tapped his friend's head, he says, knocking off his hat, but couldn't get himto stop. So David Cash Jr. decidea to take a walk.The scene in front of him could not have been any clearer a nearly 6-ft.-tall teenager and a little girl who didn't yetweigh 50 lbs. locked in the stall of the Primaoonna Resort casino at 3:47 in the morning. Ana yet Cash goes for awalk. He says nothing to the security guards. Less than half an hour later, Strohmeyer emerges a r d tells Cash hehas molested and murdered the child. Cash, stunned, does not ask why. Accoroing to grand jury testimonyobtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Cash does venture one question: Had the little girl been aroused? Bythe time Sherrice Iverson's broken body is found at 5 a.m., stuffed in a toilet bowl, the two teenagers are already ontheir way to Las Vegas.Flash forward 15 months. This week Strohmeyer goes on trial in Las Vegas for the murder, kianapping and sexualassault of Sherrice Iverson. If convicted, he faces a possible death sentence, but his lawyer, Leslie Abramson,claims his confession was extracted by police while he was drugged. His friend Cash, now 19 and an aspiringnuclear engineer in his sophomore year at Berkeley, is not chargeo with anything, but he faces a trial of anotherkind, from angry Californians. The tale of the bad Samaritan has touched a nerve.Theyare angry that he told the LosAngeles Timeshe was not going "to lose sleep over somebony eIse'sproblems ' Angry that he felt more sorry for Jeremy than for Sherrice because, after all, he had lost his best friend,and he did not knowthegirl or her family. Angry that he told theTimeshisnotoriety had helped invigorate his sociallife—a comment he has since denied. And angry simply because he did nothing before or after the carnage. "Whathave I done?' he defiantly asked radio disk jockey Tim Conway Jr. one night during an impromptu call-in to LosAngeles station KLSX. “I have done nothing wrong." Even the police have tola him so. Cash said. "You s.o.b.l"screamed Conway in return. "I hope you burn in hell!!"Technically, Cash is right.InNevada, California and in fact most of the U.S., doing nothing about a crime is nocrime at all. Only a handful of states—including Vermont, Wisconsin a r d Minnesota-have "duty to assist" lawsrequiring those who witness a crime to offer aio a r d report it. Cash's callousness, though, has sparkeo a movementi r both California and Nevaoato pass something calleo "Sherrice's Law" to reouire witnesses to intervene andreport cases of sexual assault against children. If necessary, says Najee Ali, spokesman for Sherrice's motherYolanaa Manuel, advocates of the proposeo law will go to the federal level to win passage.Meanwhile, they want revenge on Cash. Last week an unusual coalition of Muslim and Jewish activists, mothersa r d ranio deejays drove 400 miles north from Los Angeles to stage a protest in Berkeley's historic Sproul Plasa inhopes of ostracizing the college sophomore—if not ejecting him altogether from the University of California system."This isn t a guy who should be going to Berkeley. He should be going to San Quentin," said an irate Conway."WeTe going to do everything possible to get his ass kickeooutof Berkeley and make his life as miserable aspossible."

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