Carroll, Burdick & McDonough partner Mike Rains recently obtained a dismissal of a felony and misdemeanor criminal charges against an Oakland police officer who was charged with sexual misconduct with a juvenile prostitute. The officer in question had stopped a young woman on a street in Oakland where there is […]
When allegations of discriminatory treatment were found to be not sustained, Officer Earl Titman, an eight-year veteran of the Novato Police Department, thought that the Internal Affairs investigation into the incident was behind him. “Not so,” said the City of Novato Police Advisory and Review Board. Dissatisfied with the results […]
A Solano County sheriff’s deputy has successfully fought off a “work agreement” proposed by his supervisors as a disciplinary action for sleeping in court. Deputy Guy Bristol, assigned as a courtroom bailiff, received a counseling memo last June because a judge reported the deputy was falling asleep in court. His […]
Hearing Officer Ronald Hoh recently overturned a five-day suspension that was brought against Calaveras County Detective Jack Smith. Smith was represented by Paul Q. Goyette of Goyette & Adams. The Sheriff’s Department suspended Smith for five days for allegations that he sexually harassed another Calaveras County employee. The complaining employee […]
Arbitrator Alexander Cohn recently exonerated Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Sergeant Steven Gong from the allegations of excessive force and negligent supervision levied against him by the County’s Department of Correction (DOC) in the Joseph Leitner incident of July 25, 1995. Arbitrator Cohn issued a written decision on August 5, 1997. […]