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 Fallbrook neighborhood of San Diego 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 FALLBROOK ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
Fallbrook is an unincorporated census-designated place in northern San Diego County, California. The community had a population of approximately 33,329, making it one of the largest unincorporated communities in the county. Fallbrook lies immediately east of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and is widely known for its avocado groves; the community styles itself the “Avocado Capital of the World” and hosts an annual Avocado Festival on Main Avenue.
The demographics of Fallbrook area Hispanic 53%, White 36%, Black 3%, Other 7%.
The Fallbrook neighborhood of San Diego County is patrolled by the San Diego Count Sheriff’s Office. That agency has a well-deserved reputation for brutality and for maliciously prosecuting its excessive force victims for various “resistance offenses”, to legally preclude those beating victims from being able to successfully sue the offending deputy sheriffs for the constitutionally violations perpetrated against them.
Accordingly, when San Diego County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs beat or tase or pepper-spray, or even shoot, and falsely arrest their civilian victims for some fabricated “resistance offense”, they understand that if they use the standard BS buzzwords in their police report, that the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office is more than happy to falsely and maliciously prosecute those civilian victims of police outrages to preclude them from suing the deputies and San Diego County .
YOU CAN’T PLEAD GUILTY TO A RESISTANCE OFFENSE AND THEN SUE THE POLICE FOR FALSE ARREST OR FOR YOUR BEATING.
San Diego County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs are trained from day one at the Sheriff’s Academy that if their beating/false arrest victims are convicted of resistance offenses such as “resisting arrest“, “resisting arrest with threat or use of force or violence“, “battery on a police officer” and “assault on a peace officer“.
For example, persons convicted of “resistance offenses” are generally precluded from suing the police officers who beat them or falsely arrested them, or otherwise violated their constitutional rights., via the doctrine of “collateral estoppel“, or via cases such as Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994).
“Collateral estoppel” precludes a party from relitigating an issue that has been determined against them in a prior judicial or administrative proceeding. All California “resistance offenses” are require that the alleged “victim police officers” be lawfully engaged in the performance of their duties. So, for example, a California peace officer who is using excessive force, or is unlawfully detaining or arresting another is not, by definition, engaged in the lawfully performance of his/her duties, as a peace officer has no duty to use excessive force, or unlawfully detain or arrest another.
Therefore, if one is convicted of a California “resistant offense” such as such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting / delaying / obstructing an officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on an officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on officer with weapon), there has been a judicial determination that the officers were not using excessive force, or is unlawfully detaining or arresting another.
Therefore, via the doctrine of “collateral estoppel“, the person convicted of any such “resistance offense” is now precluded from suing the police for using excessive force, or is unlawfully detaining or arresting them.
Moreover, as a policy matter, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken it upon themselves to preclude one for suing for a false arrest if one is convicted of any crime, notwithstanding any lack of a warrant or probable cause to believe that one committed a crime at the time of the arrest; the actual material inquiry in a false arrest case. See, Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994).
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 .
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