SAN DIEGO COP & PROSECUTOR COMMIT MISCONDCUT
Well, it's another day of misconduct in San Diego.
In December, I filed a federal Civil Rights case against a cop who has had to pay out hefty judgments in the past. Right after I filed a police misconduct motion in a criminal trial, the prosecutor filed a resisting arrest charge against my client just days before the statute of limitations was about to run.
What did they charge? They charged resisting arrest. Problem is, my client is a paraplegic and couldn't resist arrest anayway. It was pure, unadulterated retaliation.
So, what's new? Some woman who wants to divorce her husband gets a bunch of PI's to tail him. Then an SDPD sergeant called one of San Diego's DUI cops to tail the husband. Cop stops husband, and he seems to be fine. He blows a .10, but he has diabetes (and if you know anything about ketosis or acedosis, you know that these compounds in diabetics register like alcohol on these machines, skewing the results). So no charges are filed.
Oh, now wait a minute! That is, until the man who was hunted by the cops on the taxpayer dollar decided to file a claim against the City and sue. Lo and behold, the City Attorney files a DUI charge against the man who the cops hunted, just days after he sends them notice he is going to sue them!
Here it is. Oh, and City Attorney Jonathan Lapin, a misdemeanor prosecutor who will never be more than a misdemeanor prosecutor, scoffs at the medical testimony.
You might remember me posting that Lapin tried to quash a subpeoan of a former prosecutor who had information about a dirty cop I was investigating.
