MICHAEL P. STONE Partner Stone Busailah, LLP Understanding Why Video Evidence Is Deceptive and Misleading, and Often Undercuts the Value of Eyewitness Testimony A court trial this week in yet another fatal officer-involved shooting case in Los Angeles featured a familiar conflict in the evidence: officer eyewitness testimony versus news […]
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KIMBERLY D. RILEY Partner Dawson & Riley, LLP The Monterey Park Police Department imposed a 40-hour suspension against the appellant for allegations related to an off-duty incident; however, it failed to notify the appellant within 30 days of its final decision on when he would serve the suspension. With the […]
GREGG ADAM Partner Messing Adam & Jasmine, LLP The attacks on your pension benefits keep coming. Just as Chuck Reed’s Measure B pension disaster was mercifully put to an end by San Jose voters in the November 8 election, and as the courts began dissecting Carl DeMaio’s parallel efforts in […]
ALISON BERRY WILKINSON Principal Attorney Berry Wilkinson Law Group 2016 was the year of the text. Case after case dropped on my desk where casual, colorful, private commentary suddenly became public, causing employers to take disciplinary action. The penalties ranged from termination for the ugliest and most offensive of exchanges, […]
JULIA FOX Senior Associate Rains Lucia Stern, PC Jason Daniels will never forget October 18, 2013. That was the day he found himself lured into the Humboldt County Jail, had his shoulder twisted up behind him, and was handcuffed and then Mirandized. It was also the day he reached out […]