Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions, wrongful deaths and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering in an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court for constitutional violations in the Dove Canyon neighborhood of Orange County, California, throughout Orange County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal courts in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.
“THE YOUNG LAWYER KNOWS THE LAW, BUT THE OLD LAWYER KNOWS THE JUDGE”
Mr. Steering’s many years of experience and acquired knowledge can help you maximize your chances of actually winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. If you cannot win your Civil Rights Police Misconduct Lawsuit then you have no rights, because you have no way to enforce them, and a right without a remedy in the real world does not exist.
THE POLICE IN ORANGE COUNTY ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department patrols the Dove Canyon area of Orange County. That agency has had its good years and its bad ones.
Brad Gates, Sheriff of Orange County, California from 1975 to 1999.
Brad Gates was the Sheriff of Orange County, California, from 1975 to 1999. He was the longest serving sheriff in Orange County’s history. Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates had a well-earned reputation for cronyism; for rewarding his campaign contributions with special favors and privileges.
In Guillory v. Orange County, 731 F.2d 1379 (9th Cir. 1984), the plaintiffs private investigators sued Sheriff Brad Gates and the County of Orange for refusing to issue concealed carry gun permits to them because they did not contribute to Gates’ campaign for Sheriff. They used Gates’s own records to show that he issued concealed-weapon permits to 101 individuals who had contributed more than $120,000.00 to his reelection campaigns. However, Gates did give gun permits to hundreds of his political backers and campaign contributors, who the Guillorys’ lawyer described at the “The Brad Gates Gun Club”. See, Jury Finds Gates Violated Rights in Gun Permit Suit : Sheriff: Ending 11-year case, a federal jury awards $246,000 to 2 private investigators, saying he acted with ‘reckless disregard’ for Constitution in favoring friends. Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1990.
Mike Carona, Sheriff of Orange County, California from 1999 to 2008.
Following Brad Gates’ reign as Orange County Sheriff, Mike Carona was elected Sheriff in 1998. Sworn in in 1999, Mike Carona remained Orange County Sheriff until his resignation in 2008.
Sheriff Carona’s term as Orange County Sheriff was infected with corruption from the start; with Sheriff Carona creating a new level of Reserve Deputy Sheriff, Level IV, that did not exist under California state law. Carona created this Reserve Deputy Sheriff Level IV position to essentially give guns and badges to his friends and campaign contributors.
Three years later, the state’s Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training removed all 86 of the reserve deputies from California’s peace officer database, which meant the commission no longer recognized them as peace officers. Even so, 56 still kept their badges and Sheriff’s Department identification cards, and 14 kept their concealed weapons permits. See, O.C. sheriff made donors his deputies, Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2005.
Thereafter, Mike Carona’s stormy term as Orange County Sheriff was so riddled with corruption that he and his “Team Forever” (Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl and Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo) all ended up indicted and served jail/prison time for their corrupt actions.
George Jaramillo pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges tied to accepting bribes.
Don Haidl, a wealthy Orange County businessman who was made Assistant Sheriff despite never having been in law enforcement at all, was Indicted on corruption-related charges and cooperated with federal prosecutors against Mike Carona.
In October of 2007, Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona was indicted on multiple federal corruption charges, including Conspiracy, Mail fraud and Witness tampering. In 2009, Sheriff Carona was convicted of witness tampering and sentenced to 66 months in federal prison.
Sandra Hutchens, Sheriff of Orange County from 2008 to 2019 and current Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes.
Sandra Hutchens, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department division chief and commander she was appointed by the Orange County Board of Supervisors to the position of Sheriff of Orange County following Sheriff Mike Carona’s resignation following his federal Indictment in 2008.
Sheriff Hutchens’ reign as Orange County Sheriff was basically scandal free, as is the reign of Orange County’s current Sheriff Don Barnes.
IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS BY WINNING YOUR CASE.
The only thing that matters when enforcing your rights, is whether you win your case. If you don’t win your case, then you have no rights because you have no way to enforce them.
Just because the police violated your constitutional rights doesn’t mean that you can do anything about it. In order to “do something about it”, to enforce your constitutional rights, it takes a great deal of experience, insights, skill and savvy. You need a unanimous jury of usually 8 jurors to vote in your favor in federal court to win your case. If you mouth-off to the cops or don’t do what the police tell you to do or cuss out the cops, or act like a jerk, one or more of the jurors in your case may not vote for you. That is the reality in which we all live.
Mr. Steering’s many years of experience and knowledge in suing the police can help you maximize your chances of winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters.
Jerry L. Steering has been suing police agencies for constitutional violations since 1984. He has the experience, insights, skill and savvy to actually win your police misconduct civil rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”.
If you are the victim of police misconduct, Jerry L. Steering can help you. Call Jerry L. Steering, Esq. at (949) 474-1849, or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com .
If you are the victim of police misconduct, Jerry L. Steering can help you. Call Jerry L. Steering, Esq. at (949) 474-1849, or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com .
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