Police 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 West Hollywood, throughout Los Angeles 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. “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 PALM DESERT ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Palm Desert is a city in the Coachella Valley region of Riverside County, California. The city is located approximately 14 miles Palm Springs, 121 miles northeast of San Diego and 122 miles east of Los Angeles. The population of Palm Desert is approximately 52,000 with demographics of White 64%, Hispanic 26%, Asian 4%, Two or more races 3% and African American 2%. The City of Palm Desert contracts its police services with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. That agency has become a brutal and institutionally dishonest agency since Chad Bianco was elected Sheriff of Riverside County. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has unleashed its deputies on the public. Legitimate verbal questioning, protest of and verbal challenge to its deputies’ orders or actions are met with overwhelming force and violence, notwithstanding that verbal protest or verbal challenge to police orders or actions have long been held to be constitutionally protected conduct. See, City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987) (“The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”) The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department also has an actual policy and longstanding practice of falsely and maliciously prosecuting its innocent victims of police beatings, pepper-sprayings, tasings and even shootings, and withholding highly exculpatory evidence from the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. For example, when Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs use force to effect a detention or an arrest, the deputies’ Patrol Sergeant goes to the scene where the force was used and takes a statement from the deputies as to the circumstances that necessitated the use of force on the civilian. These on the scene statements by deputies often are totally materially inconsistent with the justification for the use of force that the deputies show in their police reports that are authored later on; sometimes weeks after the use of force was used. Therefore, the “Supervisors Use of Force Memorandum” usually constitutes highly exculpatory evidence. For example, in Kenneth Ciccarelli v. County of Riverside, plaintiff Kenneth Ciccarelli sued the County of Riverside for beating him, falsely arresting him and procuring his malicious criminal prosecution. See, Riverside County pays $1.3 million to Wildomar man whose face was broken by deputies. The underlying felony criminal case against Mr. Ciccarelli was predicated on the false claim that Mr. Ciccarelli swung his cell phone at Deputy Sheriff William Stokes. However, when Sgt. Jeff Reese took Deputy Stokes’ statement about his use of force upon Mr. Ciccarelli, Deputy Stokes never mentioned any such claim that Mr. Ciccarelli swung his cell phone at him as shown in Sgt. Reese’s “Supervisors Use of Force Memorandum“. Notwithstanding that Cal. Penal Code Section 1054.1 and the 14th Amendment (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) mandated that the Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s Office turn-over to Mr. Ciccarelli that Supervisors Use of Force Memorandum, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department withheld that report from the defense in Mr. Ciccarelli’s underlying criminal case, claiming that those Supervisors Use of Force Memoranda are “internal documents”, not to be turned over to the defense. This is the way that the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department works. 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 . FREE CASE EVALUATION
