JLS in Courtroom cropped 2Newport Beach Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering is a has been suing the police since 1984 for false arrests, police brutality / excessive force, malicious prosecutions and wrongful deaths. Mr. Steering is an Expert and Specialist in Suing the Police in Federal Court; the place where almost all Police Misconduct Cases get tried. Mr. Steering sues state and local police officers in Newport Beach, in Orange County, and throughout the State of California.

THE NEWPORT BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT IS A OFTEN A CRUEL AND BRUTAL AGENCY.

If you don’t think that the Newport Beach Police Department are a brutal agency, just go to Newport Beach on the 4th of July and you will think otherwise. On the 4th of July, the Newport Beach Police Department arrests just about anyone for the most de minimis violations, such as not having a license for your bicycle, or for public intoxication if your breath smells of alcohol at all; even from one beer, no matter how sober you are.

LAPD Batting Practice in the ParkNewport Beach Police Department police officers will also arrest and beat-up civilians who verbally protest or verbally challenge their actions or authority. There is almost no limit what they will do to protect themselves from the victims of their outrages. They beat, falsely arrest and procure the malicious criminal prosecutions of their victims, because if they get their victims convicted for a “resistance offense” (i.e. resisting arrest or battery on peace officer) they will then be legally precluded from successfully suing the police via either collateral estoppel or via the U.S. Supreme Court case of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994). 

The Newport Beach Police Department police officers may not be legal scholars, but they know that if your are convicted of a “resistance offense”, then you cannot successfully sue them.

THE ONLY RIGHTS THAT YOU HAVE IN THIS WORLD ARE THOSE RIGHTS THAT YOU CAN ENFORCE.

Rights without a practical real world remedy are no rights at all. The only federal constitutional rights that you have, such as for arrest without probable cause or excessive force, are those right that can enforce by getting a federal court jury of 8 mostly white, mostly conservative, and almost all cop-loving jurors to unanimously vote for you and to condemn the police. That is a difficult task, especially in Orange County, California; a very conservative county filled with potential jurors who think that the police walk on water; that is at least or until they are mistreated by the police.

YOU NEED A POLICE MISCONDUCT CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER WITH EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SAVVY AND TENACITY TO WIN YOUR LAWSUIT IN FEDERAL COURT.

Jerry L. Steering has been suing state and local police officers, like Newport Beach police officers, since 1984. He has a long list of victories against various police agencies in federal court in Orange County, California. See, “Jerry L. Steering Has a Long Successful Track Record Against the Police in Orange County“. Those victories in Orange County include several Police Misconduct lawsuits against the Newport Beach Police Department.

Ashley Watts 3For example in Ashley Watts v. City of Newport Beach, Newport Beach Police Department police officers were summoned to Ashley Watts’ apartment complex, in response to a call for service for a taxi driver complaining that Ms. Watts didn’t pay for her $16.00 cab ride. Rights without a practical real world remedy are no rights at all. When the NBPD officers arrived at the scene, they taxi driver complained that Ashley Watts’ credit card had been declined, due to fraudulent activity on the credit card. The credit card company had issued Ashley Watts a new credit card to replace the one deactivated, but when she left her home that night, she accidentally grabbed the old credit card.

The officers told Ms. Watts that they would not permit her to go to her apartment to get the cash to pay for the cab ride, and that if she didn’t pay the cabbie now that she was going to jail.

When the officers finally allowed her to go to her apartment to get the cash to pay the cabbie, the officers then walked inside behind her. When Ms. Watts told them that she didn’t invite them the officers closed the door behind them and told Ms. Watts “Then you’re going to jail”. The officers then slammed Ms. Watts against the wall of her apartment, slammed her on the floor and took her to jail. See, Newport Beach Pays $360,000 to Woman Falsely Arrested over $16 Cab Ride.

JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY WIN YOUR POLICE MISCONDUCT CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT.

In order to prevail in federal court and to actually enforce your federal constitutional rights, you need a lawyer with many years of experience in suing the police, and the savvy and the tenacity to sue them successfully. Jerry L. Steering has been a trial attorney suing the police since 1984 and is a published legal scholar. See, Accomplice Accusations in the Criminal Process – The Application of Sixth Amendment Tests for the Reliability of Hearsay Evidence to Probable Cause Determinations – 16 Rutgers Law Jornal (1984-1985).

Jerry L. Steering is an Expert and Specialist in suing the police. As the saying goes: “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the judge”. Mr. Steering can help you win your Police Misconduct Civil Rights lawsuit, and winning is the only thing that matters.

If you are the victim of Police Misconduct, call Jerry L. Steering at (949) 474-1849 or email him at jerry@steeringlaw.com. See also, “What To Do If You Have Been Beaten-Up Or False Arrested By The Police“.

Screen Capture of Jerry Steering on CNNFREE CASE EVALUATION

Police Misconduct Specialties:
  • Excessive Force
  • Concealing Evidence
  • Destroying  Evidence
  • False Arrest
  • K-9 Maulings
  • Malicious Prosecution
  • Police Beatings
  • Police Brutality
  • Police Shootings
  • Whistle Blower Retaliation
  • Wrongful Death

Jerry L. Steering with Diane Sawyer