district judge michael davis decided to step in and overrule the jury's judgment davis said their decision was so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportionate to the offense and obviously unreasonable and that is a quo so rather than the one point five million dollars fine the woman will only be shelling out lost a lot fifty four thousand dollars for all twenty four songs but let's put that into a comparison under the original ruling by the jury thomas ross that was going to pay sixty two thousand dollars for each song you downloaded but after judge davis intervened they'll only pay two thousand dollars per track and to be very clear that's still a very hefty price but it proves there are more reasonable individuals in this world who agree that nobody should be forced into the poorhouse for downloading a few songs and it's become clear that the record industry is out for blood. and they want revenge on the millions of people who found ways to avoid paying for their media so they god there are judges out there like judge michael davis who thinks the outrageous fines pursued by the

judge, katherine feinstein, about deep budget cuts to california's court system. coming up next. >> belva: good evening. i'm belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me tonight on our news panel are michael montgomery, reporter for kqed news and "california watch." josh richman, legal and political affairs reporter for "the oakland tribune." and joshua johnson, morning newscaster for kqed news. joshua, let's start by talking about what are some of the concerns that have been raised around this whole affair and why is there so much upheaval over it? >> the concerns seem to fall into two basic buckets. one has to do with the actual actions of the police in general toward people in the bay view. the other has to do with the environment in the bay view and conditions that may have given rise to what happened saturday. let me set up what happened saturday. we can go from there. san francisco police say that they were making an investigation into a young man who came into the back of the muni t third line around third and oak dale. that young man apparently took off running. police pursued them. they say he fired indiscriminately, over shoulder, perhaps over his arm, back in the direction of t