Posted by Harry Stern Arbitrator Joe Henderson has returned Oakland Police Officer Kwang Lee to work after the department fired him in April 2001. At the conclusion of a three-day evidentiary hearing, Henderson determined that the city of Oakland terminated Lee without just cause. Lee grew up in Milpitas and, […]
On March 26, 2001, Jason Schechterle, a 30-year-old Phoenix police officer, was responding to a call, a routine event on his tour of duty that evening. The routine tour came to an abrupt end when the 1998 Ford Crown Victoria he was driving was rear-ended by a taxicab. The Crown […]
It was just supposed to be another traffic stop. At least that is what Manhattan Beach Police Officer Eric Eccles thought when he activated the overhead lights of his patrol unit to stop a 1965 Oldsmobile on December 29, 2001. He never imagined that he would be sitting in court […]
Posted by Rains Lucia & Wilkinson LLP On its 56th day of deliberations, the jury in the Oakland police misconduct trial reached not guilty verdicts and acquitted three former Oakland police officers, Clarence “Chuck” Mabanag (represented by LDF panel attorney and lead defense counsel Mike Rains of Rains, Lucia & Wilkinson […]
Posted by Alison Berry Wilkinson The Statute: Enacted in 1995, Penal Code section 148.6 makes it a misdemeanor to file an allegation of misconduct against a peace officer knowing the allegation to be false. Section 148.6 was enacted to close the gap left by the courts after section 148.5 (which […]