Lake Forest Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality & excessive force, false arrests, malicious prosecutions and wrongful deaths, such as shootings and smotherings (positional asphyxia). Mr. Steering specializes in Police Misconduct Civil Rights lawsuits in federal court; the venue where almost all such cases are tried. Like many other Orange County cities, the City of Lake Forest, California contracts its Police Services with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, that acts as the Lake Forest Police Department. Mr. Steering’s law practice involves suing the police in Lake Forest, California, throughout Orange County, and otherwise throughout the State of California. The COVID-19 pandemic shifted many court appearances and depositions in Police Misconduct Civil Rights lawsuits to Zoom appearances. This has made it practical for Police Misconduct Civil Rights lawyers like Jerry L. Steering to sue the police anywhere in the State of California. WINNING YOUR CASE IN FEDERAL COURT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. As Chief Justice John Marshall wisely stated in 1803: “It is a general and indisputable rule that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy by suit or action at law whenever that right is invaded.” Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803). The converse of that maxim is also true; If there is no remedy, there is no right. Your only remedy to enforce your constitutional rights is winning a Police Misconduct Civil Rights lawsuit in federal court against the police. If you cannot win your lawsuit then you have no constitutional rights, because you have no way to enforce them, and a right without a real world practically obtainable remedy, is no right at all. ALMOST ALL POLICE MISCONDUCT CASES ARE TRIED IN FEDERAL COURT. Almost all Police Misconduct cases are tried in federal court, where the District Judges do almost all of the questioning of prospective jurors. Fed. Rule Civil Proc. 47. The lawyers usually get 10 to 15 minutes each to ask follow-up questions during jury selection; “voir dire“. Any prospective jurors who have had a bad experience with the police, or have seen police beatings or false arrests of innocents, routinely are “excused for cause” from sitting on the jury by the District Judge. Any other such prospective jurors get booted from sitting on the jury by the lawyers for the police via peremptory jury challenges (28 U.S.C. § 1870). Accordingly, by the time that jury selection is over, the only people who get to sit on juries in Police Misconduct Civil Rights Cases in federal court, are mostly white, mostly cop-loving jurors, who believe that the police are basically honest people, with a few bad apples. Moreover, to win in federal court you must get a unanimous verdict. Because Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police in Orange County since 1986, he knows how to maximize your chances of getting an Orange County jury to vote for you in your civil rights case. As the saying goes, “The Young Lawyer Knows the Law, But the Old Lawyer Knows the Judge.” MR. STEERING HAS A LONG SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD AGAINST THE POLICE IN ORANGE COUNTY. Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police in Orange County since 1986. He has a long successful track record against the police in Orange County that can be found on his web page “Jerry L. Steering Has a Long Successful Track Record Against the Police in Orange County’. If you are the victim of police misconduct, such as a false arrest, the use of excessive force, a malicious criminal prosecution, first amendment / free speech retaliation, or other police outrages, we can help you. Call Jerry L. Steering at (949) 474-1849 or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com. See also, What To Do If You Have Been Beaten-Up or Falsely Arrested By The Police. FREE CASE EVALUATION
