Santa Ana Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering

SANTA ANA POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY

Mr. Steering is a Police Misconduct Attorney who sues the police in Santa Ana, Orange County and other locations throughout California. Mr. Steering Specializes in Police Misconduct Cases for Excessive Force/Police Brutality, False Arrest, Malicious Criminal Prosecution, and other outrages by police officers. He has been doing so since 1984.

Police officers who subject civilians to Excessive Force/Police Brutality, or who “fail the attitude test” (i.e. “contempt of cop”) routinely get falsely arrested for “resistance offenses”, such as Resisting / Obstructing / Delaying a Peace Officer (Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1)), Resisting a Peace Officer with Violence (Cal. Penal Code § 69), Assault on a Peace Officer (Cal. Penal Code § 241(c) & and Cal Penal Code 245(c)), and Battery on a Peace Officer (Cal. Penal Code § 243(b)). The do so to protect themselves from civil liability.

Far too often, the local County District Attorney’s Office is all too willing to prosecute the innocent victims of police outrages. Accordingly, the majority of Mr. Steering’s firm’s law is practice is not only suing the police for such police outrages, and also defending bogus “contempt of cop” criminal actions, but also suing the police for malicious criminal prosecutions of their civilian victims.

Mr. Steering is a 1984 Graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, and is also a published legal scholar, and has a published Law Review on important 4th and 6th Amendment Constitutional Issues. See, The Application Of Sixth Amendment Tests For The Reliability Of Hearsay Evidence To Probable Cause Determinations, 16 Rutgers Law Journal 869 (1985. Mr. Steering is licensed to practice law in the State of Georgia and has practiced in federal courts outside of California pro hac vice, including the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Steering is also a Members of the Bars of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court (since 1987).

Most of Mr. Steering’s criminal and civil cases involve core Bill of Rights type issues; the difference between living in a free society of a police state. Most of these federal civil rights cases involve police violation of person(s) fourth amendment rights (i.e unreasonable searches of persons and their places and effects, and unreasonable seizures of person (false arrest and unreasonable force, procuring bogus and malicious criminal prosecutions) and first amendment violations (retaliation for protected speech and to petition for redress and various other “Constitutional Torts” , including police whistleblowing cases (Cal. Labor Code Section 1102.5.)

POLICE MISCONDUCT IN SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA

Santa Ana has always been a hotbed of police misconduct.

As far back as 1990, Mr. Steering won a $612,000.00 jury verdict (plus attorney’s fees) against Santa Ana Police Department police officer Steve Lodge for unreasonable force; Farahani v. City of Santa Ana, U.S. District Court (Santa Ana)(See, “Police Brutality False Arrest Case Results” pages for verdicts / settlements / judgments against other police agencies.) See also, City to Pay $292,500 to Man Who Says Officer Beat Him : Litigation: Attorneys reach settlement after city’s appeal of a federal jury award of more than $600,000, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1991.

In more recent times the Santa Ana Police Department forced out its Chief of Police for exposing corruption of Santa Ana City officials as well as for  trying to steer the department “away from corruption” and cracked down on poor officer behavior, including on some who were “improperly accounting for their time.”.

See, Ex-Santa Ana police chief sues city alleging he was forced out for whistle-blowing, OC Register, October 3, 2017. Like other OC police Chiefs who try to reform the behavior of his/her subordinate Officers to conform to constitutional standards, the police associations in those departments is having none of it. See, 

Mr. Steering is an expert in defending your bogus criminal action, in a way to best protect and enhance your ability to ultimately obtain some justice; reasonable compensation and redress, for your police beating; for your false arrest; for your unlawful search and seizure; for your malicious criminal prosecution; and for what’s usually at the center of all of the above, the exercise of our right to freedom of speech, and to complain to public officers, about misconduct by them or others, under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution..