JLS in Courtroom cropped 2Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering in an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court for constitutional violations in the City of Dana Point, throughout Orange County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal court in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.

Mr. Steering 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.

As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”.

THE POLICE IN MORENO VALLEY ARE OFTEN BRUTALITY AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.

Moreno Valley is a city in Riverside County, California, and is part of the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metropolitan area, also known as the “Inland Empire“. It is the second-largest city in Riverside County with an estimated population of 210,000.

The City of Moreno contracts its police services with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, who deploys out of the Moreno Valley Station located at 22850 Calle San Juan De Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, California.

Although there are quite a few decent deputy sheriffs with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, ever since Riverside County Sheriff Chad Biano took over at that agency, beatings, false arrests and malicious criminal prosecutions to protect the violating police officers are the order of the day. This is no joke.

These days, if the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is attempting to arrest someone in a house and the person refuses to exit, they just smash in the walls of the home until there is no place left to hide with its TAC-CAT vehicle.

Also, when the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department commits outrages against civilians, they need not worry, because the iverside County District Attorney’s will criminally prosecute those victims of police outrages.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has a “CAPO” Unit of Deputy District Attorneys who have all “drank the Cool-Aid”, and will either actually believe the fabricated police versions of beatings, shootings, tasings, pepper-sprayings, or just don’t care whether those police fabrications are true or not so long as they get some sort of conviction to preclude you from suing the police for the outrages perpetrated against you.

Riverside-County-Sheriff-Chad-Bianco-greets-Riverside-County-District-Attorney-Mike-HestrinIn reality, the “CAPO” (Crimes Against Peace Officers) Unit of the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office is there to obtain a conviction against the victims of police outrages against the public to preclude them from being able to successfully sue the police after the criminal case is over.

Under the “Doctrine of Collateral Estoppel” once an issue of fact has been adjudicated against you in a prior court case (“judicial proceeding”), you cannot relitigate that issue in a subsequent court case.

One of the characteristics of “resistance offenses” such as violations of violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing a officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on officer with weapon), is that all of these crimes contain an element that the alleged victim officer be engaged in the lawful performance of their duties.

If the alleged victim police officer is not engaged in the lawful performance of his/her duties one cannot be found guilty of an of the above shown “resistance offenses”. So, for example, if the alleged victim police officer is unlawfully detaining someone, or unlawfully arresting someone, or using excessive force upon someone, or otherwise acting unlawfully such as unlawfully entering or unlawfully searching someone’s home, car or person, the person cannot be found guilty of any of these “resistance offenses”.

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Accordingly, if one is convicted in a criminal case of any of these resistance offenses, as a general proposition, there has been an adjudication that the alleged victim police officer was acting lawfully.

Therefore, a person convicted of any of these “resistance offenses”, one is now precluded by the Doctrine of Collateral Estoppel from successfully suing the police for beating them, or falsely detaining or falsely arresting them, or unlawfully searching them or theirs. There are exceptions to this rule.

For example, one may be guilty of resisting/delaying/obstructing a officer, Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) by running away from the police who are lawfully detaining or arresting them, and when the police later catch-up to them and beat them with their batons or sic their dogs on them, if the two events can be logically separated in time, one might technically be able to still sue for excessive force. See, Smith v. City of Hemet, 394 F.3d 689 (9th Cir. 2005).

However, in the real world with real judges, it is very rare that one will be able to so successfully sue the police in that situation.

Moreover, if you are convicted of any crime, even if the police did not have a warrant or probable cause to arrest you, you are still precluded from suing the police for false arrest via the Doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994).

IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU.

Screen Capture from LA ABC 7 Interview of JLS on Jovan Jimenez caseAs the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. 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.

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.

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.

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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