Police Misconduct Articles about Constitutional Rights

Contempt of Cop / Resisting Arrest Cases

Jerry L. Steering is an expert in and has prosecuted, defended, consulted or has otherwise been involved in hundreds of ...

Brady List and Pitchess Motions

STEERINGLAW’S “BRADY LIST” If you would like to add a “Bad Apple” cop to the Steeringlaw Brady List page, please ...

The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?

The “Contempt of Cop Game” is those set of rules that apply to a situation in which a civilian verbally ...

Cal. Penal Code Section 69; The Hammer Of Oppression

CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE SECTION 69 LAWYER In Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), the United States Supreme Court held for ...

Dirty Harry and the Criminal Procedure Counter-Revolution

Dirty Harry and the Criminal Procedure Counter-Revolution. The Criminal Procedure Revolution. Contrary to popular belief, the Bill of Rights, the ...

How To Win Your Drug Case; Go After the Cops

FREE CASE EVALUATION Jerry L. Steering is a Police Misconduct Attorney that has many years of experience in defending drug ...

Imagine being on trial, wrongfully accused of battery on a peace officer

Why The Cops Get Away With It; The Jury System

Why The Cops Get Away With It; The Jury System WHY THE COPS CAN USUALLY GET AWAY WITH IT; THE ...

The D.A. Can Do No Wrong; Prosecutorial Immunity And The Police State

Preface: The Police State Isn’t Just The Police. It’s The body politic. It’s those of us who get to sit on juries, ...

How The Exclusionary Rule Backfired And Crushed Americans’ Constitutional Rights

In a very real sense, there is no such thing as “the law.” There is no real live “formula” or ...

Can You Sue The Police For Malicious Criminal Prosecutions?

Can You Sue The Police For Malicious Criminal Prosecutions? By Jerry L. Steering, Esq. The Short Answer is “No” Under ...

Why The Police Are Not Our Friends Anymore

THE POLICE ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS ANYMORE. In years gone by, we, as a society, had a whole lot more ...

James Madison, 4th President of the United States and father of the Constitution

Originalist Constitutional Interpretation is a Fraud

The Ninth Amendment Shows that “Originalist” Constitutional Interpretation is a Fraud “. . . ‘it is a general and indisputable ...

Former San Bernardo County District Attorney Michael Ramos established his Crimes Against Peace Officer Unit to prosecute the victims of police abuse, to protect the police from liability for their outrages

Why Grand Juries Don’t Indict Police Officers?

Why Grand Juries Don’t Indict Police Officers? PROSECUTORS PRESENT CASES OF DUTY RELATED POLICE MISCONDUCT TO GRAND JURIES, BECAUSE THEY ...

"Dirty Harry" (Clint Eastwood) sits across the desk from the San Francisco District Attorney with a Court of Appeal Judge sitting behind him and giving him a legal opinion on the admissibility of evidence in his pending murder case; something that would never happen in the real world

“The Law Is Crazy” – Public Misperception Of The Exclusionary Rule

The Criminal Procedure Counter-Revolution; Public Misperception of the Exclusionary Rule – “The Law Is Crazy”. Changing the Interpretation of The ...

Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito almost always sides with the police

Why American’s Civil Rights Are Going, Going, Gone

Why American’s Civil Rights Are Going, Going, Gone Have you ever had a relative that you haven’t seen since they ...

Suing Police Officers For Violating Your Constitutional Rights

United States Courthouses are the Alter of Liberty for Federal Civil Rights cases

Cal. Penal Code Section 148(a)(1) – The Boot Of The Police State II

PREFACE. This author is not a big fan of lawyer shows or movies. It’s difficult to sit there and watch ...

Police Officers Demanding Identification from a civilian

Is It A Crime To Refuse To Identify Yourself to a Police Officer in California?

Although in Nevada and Arizona it is a crime to fail to identify yourself to a police officer if they have legal grounds to detain you, it is not a crime in California

Do I Have A Right To Record The Police?

The United States Supreme Court has never decided the issue of whether persons have a Constitutional Right to Record the ...

The gang at the Riverside County Sheriff's Department Jurupa Valley Station

The Modern Police State: “Officer’s Safety” Replaces “Probable Cause”

PREFACE: THE MODERN POLICE STATE AND WHY YOU DON’T KNOW THAT YOU ARE LIVING IN ONE Police officers usually don’t ...

If You’re The Victim; You’re The Enemy

Yesterday you believed that police officers were basically honest, with a few deviants here and there. Yesterday, you didn’t feel ...

A Practical Cure for the Curse of Qualified Immunity

A Practical Cure for the Curse of Qualified Immunity The Doctrine of Qualified Immunity is Antithetical to Our System of ...

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