Andrew Martinez was not some "crazy" nudist and he died a horrible tragic death.  What really happened is what I have spent over two years investigating. This webpage is provided under federal fair use guidelines and for investigative purposes. My investigation is not over.  If you have any information old photos, videos, etc. of Andrew Martinez, please contact me at alberta2-judgebusters@hotmail.com. I am willing to pay for their use.  Written by Alberta Rose Jones, September 26, 2010, copyright protected

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"You could see it in his eyes -- the meds were taking a lot out of him," Schwartz said. "It's just such a waste. This never should have happened." Bryan Schwartz, Martinez's best friend, said the man who died in the jail cell hardly resembled the former high school star defensive lineman and straight-A student who charmed peers with his laid-back, kindhearted nature and penchant for non-conformity. Martinez was found under his bed covers with a plastic bag cinched around his head, Cursi said. Officials are investigating the death as an apparent suicide. story continued... Doctors were never able to give Martinez an exact diagnosis, and he struggled for years with his medication. Some periods he was his familiar, lucid self, but other times his mind "seemed to be commanded by an alien spirit," Schwartz said. Andrew Martinez From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the nudist and activist. Luis Andrew Martinez commonly known as Andrew Martinez, was an activist who achieved fame at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was known as The Naked Guy.[1] Martinez was a high school football player when he attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California.[2] Martinez attended classes at University of California, Berkeley. In September 1992, his second year in college, he began appearing naked in public and led a campus "nude-in" to protest social repression. Campus police first arrested him that fall for indecent exposure when he jogged naked near southside dormitories late on a Saturday night. The county prosecutor refused to prosecute, concluding that nudity without lewd behavior was not illegal. The university then banned nudity on campus. Martinez began strolling around campus naked, citing philosophical reasons. He explained that when he dressed in expensive, uncomfortable, stylish, "appropriate" attire, he hid the fact that his personal belief was that clothes were useless in his environment except as a tool for class and gender differentiation. Martinez wrote a 1992 guest column in The Oakland Tribune: "When I walk around nude, I am acting how I think it is reasonable to act, not how middle-class values tell me I should act. I am refusing to hide my dissent in normalcy even though it is very easy to do so." Martinez, who typically attended classes wearing only sandals and a backpack, became a cause célèbre at the university for a while, sparking a number of nude-ins on campus and performances by the Bay Area nudist group the X-Plicit Players. He appeared on national talk shows, was profiled in a photo essay inPlaygirl and was parodied in the 1994 college comedy PCU. Although UC Berkeley never acknowledged a social conservative rationale for dealing with Martinez, the school eventually recognized a feminist argument raising sexual harassment concerns, and accordingly issued its "Policy Statement Concerning Public Nudity and Sexually Offensive Conduct" on December 7, 1992.[3] Then neither employed nor furthering his education, Martinez continued living in Berkeley, and was arrested for public nudity by the city. He fought those charges and won. For many months, it was legal to walk around nude in Berkeley and he went further, attending a City Council meeting naked. The city adopted an anti-nudity ordinance in July 1993.[4] Martinez and some of his supporters then showed up at a City Hall meeting in the buff and he became the first person arrested under new city ordinance.[5] He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and got two years’ probation. [edit]Later life After his legal matters were settled, Martinez traveled to Europe, studied judo, and began to write a manuscript about his experiences. After his return and continued unemployment, he began to manifest symptoms of mental illness and he spent much of the decade following his national fame moving among halfway houses, psychiatric institutions, occasional homelessness, and jail, but never getting comprehensive treatment, his family said. Martinez showed signs of schizophrenia and was prescribed medication, but with little improvement. "It was an endless cycle of trying to get answers but never getting any," said his mother. "It was endless, endless, endless."[6] On January 10, 2006, Martinez was arrested after a fight at a halfway house and charged with two counts of battery and one count of assault with a deadly weapon. He was placed in maximum-security custody in Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose.[5] The last time Martinez's mother saw her son was three weeks before his death when she visited him in jail. "He was sad. He was tired. He said he had enough", she said. "I alerted everyone, but nothing happened". On the evening of his death a guard checked on him at 11 p.m. and he was fine, but a few minutes later other inmates reported hearing sounds coming from his cell. An officer returned at 11:19 and found Martinez unconscious. The 33-year-old Martinez was found with a plastic bag cinched around his head. He was taken to Valley Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead of apparent suicide on May 18, 2006. Martinez's funeral was held May 25. A memorial for him was held May 27 at People's Park, in Berkeley.[7] On November 12 of that year, a public memorial was held at a community recreation center in Cupertino.[8] In 2009, his mother Esther Krenn settled a wrongful death lawsuit against Santa Clara County, which paid her $1 million and altered its policies so that family members would be notified in the event of a suicide attempt.[9] Luis Andrew Martinez   SAN JOSE Champion of nudity found dead in jail cell 'Naked Guy' won fame in Berkeley, challenged values Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, May 21, 2006 The Naked Guy, whose au naturel jaunts through Berkeley spurred a nudity revolt in the early 1990s and earned him national fame, died in a San Jose jail cell, apparently of suicide.  While many chuckled at the exploits of Andrew Martinez, friends and family of the 33-year-old talked Saturday about a troubled man who struggled for years with mental illness. "He was a person with tremendous gifts and charisma who could have been a great asset to our society, but instead I feel like society -- me included -- failed him," said Martinez's best friend, Bryan Schwartz, a civil rights lawyer in Washington, D.C. "It's such a waste." After his days as the Naked Guy, Martinez spent the next decade bouncing among halfway houses, psychiatric institutions, occasional homelessness and jail, but never getting comprehensive treatment, his family said. His life ended in an apparent suicide Thursday morning. "It was an endless cycle of trying to get answers but never getting any," said his mother, who requested that her name not be used. "It was endless, endless, endless." Doctors were never able to give Martinez an exact diagnosis, and he struggled for years with his medication. Some periods he was his familiar, lucid self, but other times his mind "seemed to be commanded by an alien spirit," Schwartz said. But before his mental illness wreaked havoc on his and his family's lives, Martinez was a bright, charismatic, sweet-natured youth with a promising future. "He was such an adorable little boy, such a joy," said longtime family friend Lee Ann Fagan, a nurse in Sonoma County. "His entire childhood his future seemed so bright." A star defensive lineman and straight-A student at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Martinez was a popular -- if nonconformist -- figure on campus. "Everyone loved him. He was warm, positive, brilliant. He was a math whiz even though he barely studied," Schwartz said. "All the girls were asking him to the prom." He never adhered to social norms, however, always "staying true to himself," Schwartz said. That originality and self-confidence endeared him to his classmates, largely because he was such a kindhearted person. He planned to study business at UC Berkeley, but once he enrolled he became more interested in academic subjects like rhetoric and sociology. Martinez earned the moniker "Naked Guy" in 1992 when he was a sophomore and started attending class in the buff, give or take a book bag and sandals. His nakedness was a form of free speech and a challenge to what he called the sexual repression of Western society, he told reporters. At 6-foot-2, with an athletic physique and handsome face, he gained instant fame on campus and beyond. He appeared in Playgirl magazine, on national TV talk shows and in dozens of newspapers. "He wanted us to question the things we take for granted about Western values," Schwartz said. "He wanted to us challenge the norm." In typical Berkeley fashion, Martinez's nudity soon hatched a political movement. In September 1992, Martinez organized a "nude-in" on campus, in which about two dozen people stripped down to their birthday suits to exert their right to free speech. Martinez became a hero to nudity advocates and garnered a devoted following, including the Berkeley performance troupe X-plicit Players. But unlike many Berkeley radicals, Martinez was never preachy or hostile. He was good-natured, easygoing and upbeat, and didn't try to force his opinions 0n others, friends said. Martinez's run-ins with the law began in the fall of 1992, when he was arrested for indecent exposure while jogging naked near southside dormitories at 11 on a Saturday night. The charges were dropped, but he was arrested again when he showed up at his court date naked. Three months later, he was expelled from UC Berkeley for violating a campus code of conduct. Martinez continued with his academic and athletic activities, however, for about two more years. He competed in judo and was writing a book until his mental illness threw his life into disarray. On Jan. 10, he was arrested after a fight at a halfway house where he was living and charged with two counts of battery and one count of assault with a deadly weapon. He was in maximum-security custody in Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose. On Wednesday night, a guard checked on him at 11 p.m. and he was fine, but a few minutes later other inmates reported hearing sounds coming from his cell. An officer returned at 11:19 and found Martinez unconscious. He was taken to Valley Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead early Thursday. Martinez had been through horrible times in the past 10 years, but even in the throes of psychosis he retained his charisma and generous spirit, his family said. "I'd send him stuff in jail and he'd give it all away because he knew that so many people there have nothing -- no one to visit them, send them things, fight for them," his mother said. "He always had friends." The last time she saw her son was three weeks ago, when she visited him in jail. "He was sad. He was tired. He said he had had enough," she said. "I alerted everyone, but nothing happened." "You could see it in his eyes -- the meds were taking a lot out of him," Schwartz said. "It's just such a waste. This never should have happened."

Chip Johnson How Berkeley's 'Naked Guy' met a tragic end Chip Johnson Tuesday, May 19, 2009 So what happened to the fund to help others?? am trying to find out..   "Naked guy" to be remembered at memorial Friends and family of Andrew Martinez, best known as UC Berkeley's "Naked Guy," will hold a memorial on Nov. 12, NWZCHIK has learned. Courtesy of the Martinez family Andrew Martinez Martinez, famous for his nude jaunts through Cal's campus, committed suicide in a San Jose jail cell in May. The memorial will take place at 3 p.m. at the Rancho Rinconada Recreation Center located at 18000 Chelmsford Drive., Cupertino. The invite reads: Share your memories with old friends. Offer condolences to those who most need them. Vow that others should not be deprived, so tragically and needlessly, as we have been, of such a rare and gifted friend. Come, and join our discussion about how we can make a difference, so that Andrew's memory may be a blessing for us and our society. Please invite friends, family, and others from the community to attend. Martinez's family also has set up the Andrew Martinez Memorial Fund, dedicated to helping mentally ill inmates in California. You may donate at the memorial, or send checks payable to the Andrew Martinez Memorial Fund, c/o Bryan Schwartz, 3840 Howe St., #401 Oakland, CA 94611. For more information on the memorial, call the Rancho Rinconada Recreation Center at (408) 252-8429. Deanne Fitzmaurice/The Chronicle Martinez at Cal in 1992.   You may view full article here..

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Martinez on the Berkeley campus in 1992, during his unclothed heyday. By JASON ZENGERLE Published: December 31, 2006   Andrew Martinez wanted to be called the Militant Nudist, but the nickname never stuck. He was simply too gentle, too agreeable for it. In the summer of 1990, when he was 17 and had fallen under the nonconformist spell of Henry David Thoreau, Martinez took off his clothes in public for the first time. But before he did, he went door to door, fully clothed, in his hometown, Cupertino, Calif., to ask his neighbors if they would mind. Soon he was walking down Highway 9 wearing nothing but a backpack and a sign that read, “I was born naked and so were you.” He made it about a mile and a half before the police stopped him and asked him to put on some clothes, which he obligingly did. Later, as a student at the University of California at Berkeley, Martinez came to be known by a moniker as straightforward and genial as he was: the Naked Guy. He ate his meals nude. He went to parties nude. He even attended class nude. Berkeley being Berkeley, few people took offense. It didn’t hurt that Martinez had bronze skin and a tall, muscular body (he played football in high school and was a member of the judo team in college). Still, he tried to be considerate of those who were discomfited by his nudity, carrying a bandanna or briefs to cover up when he felt the situation called for it and making sure to spread a sweatshirt on his chair before sitting down in class. It was easy to dismiss his behavior as a silly stunt, but to those who knew him, Martinez was guided by an endearing, if naïve, sort of undergraduate idealism. Raised in a family that refused to buy clothing with designer labels, he now argued that all clothes were a form of repression and that by not wearing them he was making people think about the coercive nature of convention. “Our purpose is to prove that people define normalcy in their own terms,” Martinez said at a “nude-in” he staged in 1992 at Berkeley, during which more than two dozen people disrobed. The nude-in made the Naked Guy a media favorite. The feminist writer Naomi Wolf hailed Martinez for making himself “more vulnerable to the eye than women were.” Playgirl magazine photographed him. And tabloid TV hosts like Montel Williams and Maury Povich had him as a guest on their shows. That Martinez was invited on these programs mainly to be mocked didn’t seem to bother him. He’d gamely take his seat alongside his fellow guests — sex enthusiasts and porn stars — and patiently, almost sheepishly, explain his cause. Martinez came off not as a freak but as a sweet kid. He wasn’t destined for “a middle-class office job kind of thing,” as he conceded during one interview, but it seemed likely that after his 15 minutes of fame he’d go on to become a community activist, or perhaps an organic farmer. Eventually the media tired of Martinez. And so did Berkeley: in the fall of 1992, the school instituted a dress code mandating that students wear clothing in public. Martinez quickly ran afoul of the rule, and after he showed up naked for a disciplinary hearing, he was expelled. Martinez stuck around the city, hanging out in People’s Park and strolling along Telegraph Avenue, but he wasn’t the same Naked Guy as before. Friends noticed that something was amiss: Martinez had become angry — angry about his expulsion, angry that the media had moved on to other stories, angry that no rich nudist had come forward to bankroll the lawsuit he wanted to file against the university. He started to talk of sinister forces, like theC.I.A., that he claimed were trying to thwart him. He felt ostracized. “I merely need to take off a four-ounce piece of cotton and reveal something that I have, everyone knows I have, half of the population has as well, to change from an average 20-year-old guy to a sex-offending criminal,” he wrote in a book manuscript that was never published. He began to wander Berkeley pushing a shopping cart filled with rocks. He’d place the rocks at major intersections, trying to disrupt traffic, and he’d make piles of them all over the city so that, as he explained to his girlfriend at the time, “people would have weapons for when the revolution comes.” He seemed to seek out confrontations with the police, once luring them to the co-op where he lived and pelting them with compost. He was arrested on multiple occasions. After a period, Martinez left Berkeley and moved back to Cupertino to live with his mother and stepfather. Although he no longer went naked in public, his erratic behavior continued, and schizophrenia was eventually diagnosed. He spent the next decade shuttling between jails and mental-health institutions. In January he was living in a halfway house not far from his childhood home when he had a confrontation with a guard. He was charged with battery and assault with a deadly weapon and was placed in solitary confinement in the maximum-security section of the Santa Clara County jail to await trial. One night in May, alone in his cell, he put a plastic bag over his head, tied it around his neck with a bedsheet and suffocated himself. Until his death, Martinez’s family and friends did their best to keep his mental illness a secret. This was at his request. “Andrew did not want people to know about his illness,” his mother said, “because then they would think he was crazy the whole time.” In his moments of lucidity, there was one thing he desperately wanted to convey: “When he was the Naked Guy,” one friend said, “he was completely sane.”

By Jay Barmann in News on May 19, 2009 9:23 AM Mother of Cal's 'Naked Guy' Gets $1M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit See a CBS5 video on Martinez here, and Chip Johnson has a piece about him in the Chron today as well. The man who gained national fame in the early 90s for attending classes at U.C. Berkeley wearing nothing but a G-string, Luis Andrew Martinez a.k.a. The Naked Guy, met his end in a Santa Clara County jail cell where he cinched a plastic bag around his neck and died of suffocation in May 2006. It turns out he was schizophrenic, and after proving "people define normalcy in their own terms" and ultimately getting expelled from Cal, he was in and out of jails and mental institutions where he did not always receive appropriate care. His mother, Esther Krenn, brought a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and yesterday won a $1M settlement on the grounds of "reckless disregard or deliberate indifference" to her son's condition. Two weeks prior to his suicide, Martinez had attempted suicide and been placed briefly in the jail's psychiatric unit, only to be put back in a cell after promising to try to kill himself again. See a CBS5 video on Martinez here, and Chip Johnson has a piece about him in the Chron today as well. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2009 "Naked Guy" Settlement Prompts Policy Change Much thanks and kudos to Mr. Martinez' brave and supportivemom, Esther Krenn. Matt Bigler, KCBS Reporter Santa Clara County, Calif. (KCBS) -- Santa Clara County agreed Monday to change the way it processes mentally ill inmates as part of a $1 million settlement reached with the family of a schizophrenic inmate who commit suicide while in jail. Andrew Martinez became known as "The Naked Guy" while studying at UC Berkeley in the early 1990's, routinely reporting to class wearing little more than shoes and a backpack. Martinez, who was a diagnosed schizophrenic, killed himself in 2006 while in custody at Santa Clara County jail as he awaited trial on assault charges stemming from a confrontation with a guard at a halfway house. Martinez' family then sued the county for wrongful death, settling Monday - the third anniversary of his death - for $1 million. "It's okay, but the most important issue is trying to get some changes in the jail," said Martinez' mother, Esther Krenn. She claims her son was mistreated while behind bars and was allowed to somehow get a hold of a plastic bag, which he used to suffocate himself. "This just cannot happen in our society -- to treat someone like that or have lack of treatment," said Krenn. The county has now agreed to review its treatment of mentally ill inmates. "We estimate at some point that 80% of the people who are in jail have some kind of mental health issue," said Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss. Jail officials will now notify family members with the inmate's consent whenever they are taken to the acute psychiatric unit.

Another story.. Memorial for UC Berkeley's 'Naked Guy' Monday, November 13, 2006 A memorial was held in Cupertino on Sunday for Andrew Martinez, whose naked jaunts through the UC Berkeley campus earned him the nickname "the Naked Guy" and national fame before he committed suicide May 18 in a Santa Clara Jail cell at age 33. Here, attendees watch a 20-minute video of Martinez made by his girlfriend, Micaela O'Herliha of Milwaukee. Memorial for UC Berkeley's 'Naked Guy' A memorial was held in Cupertino on Sunday for Andrew Martinez, whose naked jaunts through the UC Berkeley campus earned him the nickname "the Naked Guy" and national fame before he committed suicide May 18 in a Santa Clara Jail cell at age 33. Here, attendees watch a 20-minute video of Martinez made by his girlfriend, Micaela O'Herliha of Milwaukee. Chronicle photo by Lea Suzuki