STEVEN SANCHEZ Partner Castillo Harper, APC Following an extensive foot pursuit of a known and dangerous gang member after a domestic violence call, former Indio Police Officer Gerardo “Jerry” Martinez was charged by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office with a misdemeanor violation of Penal Code Section 32, accessory after […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
MICHAEL D. SCHWARTZ, ESQ. Partner Rains Lucia Stern, PC Indio is a city with gang problems, property crimes, drugs — you name it. On September 12, 2014, what started out as a routine domestic violence call quickly spiraled into an arrest that would forever change the lives and careers of […]
MICHAEL P. STONE, ESQ. Partner Stone Busailah, LLP The rights you have as a California peace officer were established after years of effort by many who wanted to see that law enforcement officers in this state would be free from abusive, arbitrary and unfair treatment by untrained, overzealous or politically […]
GARY M. MESSING Founding Partner GREGG M. ADAM Founding Partner Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP Many readers will have noted the death of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in mid-February. Perhaps no case was more affected by the timing of Justice Scalia’s passing than Friedrichs v. California Teachers […]
ALISON BERRY WILKINSON Principal Attorney Berry Wilkinson Law Group In an effort to avoid having to reinstate Santino “Sonny” Lopez after he successfully defeated his 2010 disciplinary termination, the Grover Beach Police Department ordered that he submit to a psychological fitness-for-duty examination before its handpicked “independent” expert. The finding from […]