JUDITH A. ODBERT Senior Associate Attorney JOSHUA A. OLANDER Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, APC These are disconcerting times, when law enforcement faces criticism unparalleled in our nation’s history. In June 2015, Officer Joshua Klinge of the South Lake Tahoe Police Department was in an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the […]
MICHAEL A. MORGUESS Associate Attorney Castillo Harper, APC A San Bernardino County Superior Court has found that a Civil Service Commission’s findings upholding a termination were against the weight of the evidence presented at the administrative hearing and that the Department violated pre-disciplinary due process rights (i.e., Skelly rights) by […]
FRED ROWBOTHAM Chairman Nearly all of us are aware of the great things that the California Peace Officers’ Memorial Foundation does for the entire law enforcement community and the families of fallen officers. However, most are not aware of what goes into making the organization work. It is certainly an […]
KASEY A. CASTILLO Founding Partner Castillo Harper, APC After an extensive and dangerous vehicle, foot and horse pursuit of a wanted suspect on April 9, 2015, former San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputy Micheal Phelps, along with two other deputies, Nicholas Downey and Charles Foster, were charged by the San Bernardino District […]
MICHAEL D. SCHWARTZ, ESQ. Partner Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC Nick Downey, a well-liked, hard-working seven-year deputy with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department (SBSD), was working a special enforcement team car with his partner in the City of Victorville on April 9, 2015. Deputy Downey grew up […]