SARAH P. BURDICK Senior Associate Attorney Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC A neutral arbitrator recently awarded full back pay and overturned a demotion after finding that the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department hid investigative evidence from an employee prior to the client’s Skelly conference. The arbitrator ordered full […]
FRED ROWBOTHAM Chairman On behalf of the Legal Defense Fund Board of Trustees, I hope to see you at this year’s PORAC Conference in my hometown of San Diego. Through the hard work of your PORAC Legal Defense Fund trustees and staff, this year we passed another significant milestone: There […]
RICHARD PAUL FISHER Managing Partner, Writs and Appellate Law Division Goyette & Associates, Inc. The constitutional duty of prosecutors to reveal exculpatory material to criminal defense attorneys under Brady v. Maryland is a duty that is largely unrelated to peace officers’ interests in their confidential personnel files. As such, the […]
Pursuant to Article VII of the Plan Document and to Article VI, Section 3 of the Trust Agreement, the Board of Trustees of the PORAC Legal Defense Fund hereby amends the Plan Document as follows: Section (j) of the Summary Plan Description is amended by renumbering current Subsection 3 as […]
SUSAN R. JERICH Senior Associate Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC “You lie, you die.” What law enforcement officer is not familiar with this phrase and principle? If your Department believes you are lying and they can prove it, you can be terminated. You potentially lose your retirement, […]