Tulare County Deputy Sheriff Travis Shaw was charged in Tulare County courts with misdemeanor excessive force by a custodial officer (P.C. 149). Jury trial in the matter started on Monday, January 13, 2003. On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, defense attorney E. Marshall Hodgkins, who represented Shaw, made a motion after […]
Thanks to the persistence of paralegal/investigator Sandi Harbottle and the efforts of LDF attorney Barry Bennett, from the Fresno firm of Bennett & Sharpe, Kings County Probation Officer Tracy Kaufman is back to work, cleared of all charges. Contrary to the old saying, “A good deed went unpunished,” finally. A […]
Posted by Barry J. Bennett, Esq. You would think after 15 years with no discipline that a sheriff’s sergeant in Tulare County would have been forgiven a minor error in judgment, but that is not the way things work. A Superior Court recently overturned the findings of a county panel […]
An arbitrator recently ruled that Officer Christine O’Keefe, of the Redwood City Police Department, was entitled to an administrative appeal of her loss of longevity pay. The loss of longevity pay had resulted from a single below standard rating in O’Keefe’s six-monthly evaluation. Under the Memorandum of Understanding, a below […]
Posted by Rains, Lucia & Wilkinson LLP A chance encounter and exchange of small talk resulted in a three-year battle to overturn a termination. Thanks to the support of the PORAC Legal Defense Fund and the persistence of LDF panel attorney Alison Berry Wilkinson, the San Mateo County Superior Court […]