OCEANSIDE POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY Jerry L. Steering specializes in suing police officers for federal constitutional violations and state law torts. He has been suing the police since 1984 and is an accomplished expert in this field of law. Most of the time when the police beat-you-up or falsely arrest you, or otherwise violate your constitutional rights, they at least attempt to procure your malicious criminal prosecution, to protect themselves and their fellow officers and employing agency from civil liability. Accordingly, Mr. Steering has been involved in literally thousands of criminal “resistance offense” cases, such as violations of Cal. Penal Cod §§ 69 (felony resisting officer with threat or use of force or violence, a wobbler), 148(a)(1) (misdemeanor resisting or obstructing or delay peace officer), 240/241(c) (assault of peace officer), 242/243(b) & (c) (misdemeanor and felony battery on peace officer) and 245(c) (assault on peace officer with deadly weapon or by means likely to result in great bodily injury). Oceanside Police Officers are no different. If you tell them that you know your rights, they are going to show you that you don’t have any rights, when they tase you or beat you with a baton, or punch your lights out with their fists, and thereafter take you to the Vista Detention Center on bogus criminal charges for some “resistance offense”, for what is known in the police profession as “Contempt of Cop“. Mr. Steering has litigated police misconduct cases in federal court in San Diego (the United States District Court for the Southern District of California) for many years now. Unfortunately, because so many residents of San Diego County are current and former military, jurors in police misconduct / civil rights trial against the police are very difficult to win. They love the cops in San Diego County, and at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what the law says, or what the Judge says, or what the jury instructions say, or even what the evidence shows, if a jury of mostly white cop-loving jurors don’t vote for you, and don’t condemn the actions of the defendant police officers and deputy sheriffs. All that does matter in the real world, is whether a civil jury unanimously votes for you. Otherwise, you have no rights, because your rights only exist to the extent that you can get a jury of mostly white cop-loving jurors vote for you in your civil rights trial. Rights without a remedy (i.e. getting a jury to vote for you) are no rights at all. Mr. Steering can maximize your chances of winning your case against the police for violating your federal and state constitutional and statutory rights, due to his intellect, tenacity and many years of experience in suing the police; since 1984. POLICE BRUTALITY IN OCEANSIDE AND OTHERWISE IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY. Notwithstanding those mostly white cop-loving juries in San Diego County, Mr. Steering has had a good deal of success in police misconduct cases in San Diego County, including against the City of Oceanside Police Department. ANTHONY SENTENO v. CITY OF OCEANSIDE Anthony Senteno, a man well known to the Oceanside Police Department, was drunk and causing a disturbance at a local fast-food restaurant. Oceanside Police Department officers were called to the scene, and decided not to arrest Mr. Senteno, but instead just send him on his way. As the officers were escorting Mr. Senteno out of the restaurant parking lot, he tossed the hot sauce that he obtained from the restaurant in the face of a restaurant employee, who was taking out the trash to the dumpster. When that happened, the Oceanside Officers told Mr. Senteno that he was now under arrest, and handcuffed him. After he was handcuffed, when Mr. Senteno attempted get away from the officers, they grabbed him and slammed him down on his tailbone / back area, causing a severe spinal injury to Mr. Senteno. Mr. Steering thereafter obtained a $1,150,000.00 settlement from the City of Oceanside and from the City providing the ambulance service, the City of Vista. GWEN DAIGLE v. CITY OF OCEANSIDE. Gwen Daigle drove to a local gym in Oceanside, California, to pick-up a friend of a friend. She suffered a hemorrhagic stroke in the parking lot, and when Oceanside PD arrived, rather than call the ambulance for her, they took her to jail in the Vista Detention Facility. At the jail the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department failed to medically screed Gwen Daigle for booking, and just tossed her in the drunk tank, where she suffered additional brain damage. The Jail just let her go the next day, and Gwen, with one side of her body paralyzed, walked to a local friend’s house. Plaintiff obtained award of $700,000.00. JOVAN JIMENEZ v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO. In Jovan Jimenez v. County of San Diego, Mr. Steering recovered $500,000.00 for a man from Riverside County who was beaten by San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriffs for verbal protest of his misdemeanor simple battery arrest. Although San Diego County Deputy Sheriff’s beating of a handcuffed and helpless Jovan Jimenez, no criminal proceedings were ever brought against the deputy. The FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office in San Diego was hot-to-trt to Indict the officer in the Jimenez case for the criminal violation of Jovan Jimenez’ Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force; a clear violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242. However, in early 2018, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice told Mr. Steering: “We don’t prosecute these type of cases anymore“. In other words, no more with the USDOJ “policing the police. BERNARDO LUQUE-VILLANUEAVA v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO. In Bernardo Luque-Villanueva v. County of San Diego, Mr. Luque-Villanueva was pepper-sprayed and choked-out by San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriff James Steinmeyer in response to his stating to Deputy Steinmeyer, “F—k the police”, after seeing Deputy Steinmeyer abuse another at a 7-11 store in Encinitas. Mr. Luque-Villanueva received an award of $150,000.00 for that transgression by Steinmeyer. ROBERT PITT v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO. Mr. Steering also obtained $220,000.00 for a retired CHP Officer in U.S. District Court in San Diego who was falsely arrested by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department for carrying a concealed firearm on a High School campus. He was allowed to do so because he is an Honorably Retired peace officer with a Carry Concealed Weapon (CCW) permit from the CHP. Robert Pitt v. County of San Diego, et al.; United States District Court for the Southern District of California. POLICE MISCONDUCT SPECIALIST; SUING BAD COPS AND DEFENDING BOGUS CRIMINAL CASES. The Law Offices of Jerry L. Steering of Jerry L. Steering specializes in cases that are both bogus criminal actions (if the DA either believes the falsehoods by the police and files on you), and righteous civil rights actions, that we prosecute to vindicate your honor, your dignity and your injuries; both “general damages” (present and future physical, mental, emotional distress, pain and suffering), and “special damages” (i.e. present and future medical bills, bail costs, attorney’s fees, lost wages and other damages that can be calculated mathematically.) WHAT YOU CAN DO. Someone has to stand-up to the bullies of society, who think that using state police power to humiliate others, is funny, and makes them big men (or women.) There are thousands of others like you, who are good people, and have been somehow, for some reason that you could not have ever imagined, victimized by the government. It might as well be you. Stand-up for justice. Stand-up for our form of self-government. Stand-up for the spilled-blood of our fathers, who bravery died to prevent the very thing, that the government is doing to you right now. Click on “Home”, above, or the other pages shown, for the information or assistance that we can provide for you. If you need to speak with a lawyer about your particular legal situation, please call the Law Offices of Jerry L. Steering for a free telephone consultation. Also, if you have been the victim of a False Arrest or Excessive Force by a police officer, check our Section, above, entitled: “What To Do If You Have Been Beaten-Up Or False Arrested By The Police“. Thank you again for visiting with us. Jerry L. Steering, Esq. What to Do If You Have Been Falsely Arrested or Beaten-up by the Police – Click Here Jerry L. Steering with Diane Sawyer, Co-counsel* Bob Dole, and former partner** Melvin M. Belli Thank you, and best of luck, whatever your needs. Law Offices of Jerry L. Steering proudly serves the following San Diego County Cities:
