MICHAEL A. MORGUESS Associate Attorney Castillo Harper, APC The tension between a prosecutor’s duties to disclose exculpatory evidence (so-called Brady material) to a criminal defendant and the police department’s obligations, as a member of the prosecutorial team, to maintain the confidentiality of material in peace officer personnel records absent a […]
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JUDITH A. ODBERT Senior Associate Attorney JOSHUA A. OLANDER Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, APC These are disconcerting times, when law enforcement faces criticism unparalleled in our nation’s history. In June 2015, Officer Joshua Klinge of the South Lake Tahoe Police Department was in an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the […]
MICHAEL A. MORGUESS Associate Attorney Castillo Harper, APC A San Bernardino County Superior Court has found that a Civil Service Commission’s findings upholding a termination were against the weight of the evidence presented at the administrative hearing and that the Department violated pre-disciplinary due process rights (i.e., Skelly rights) by […]
KASEY A. CASTILLO Founding Partner Castillo Harper, APC After an extensive and dangerous vehicle, foot and horse pursuit of a wanted suspect on April 9, 2015, former San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputy Micheal Phelps, along with two other deputies, Nicholas Downey and Charles Foster, were charged by the San Bernardino District […]
MICHAEL D. SCHWARTZ, ESQ. Partner Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC Nick Downey, a well-liked, hard-working seven-year deputy with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department (SBSD), was working a special enforcement team car with his partner in the City of Victorville on April 9, 2015. Deputy Downey grew up […]