By Mani Dabiri | Published December 23, 2016 | Posted in Civil Business Litigation and Investigations, Post-Conviction Defense and Appeals | Tagged Tags: dueprocess, laborandemployment, pitchessmotions, rulesofevidence, whistleblowers, witnesses |
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Throwing Pitches in a Civil Case
Make that Pitchess with an extra s—as in Pitchess motions. In California, they’re how you ask a court to order the production of a police officer’s personnel file in litigation. We’ve written about them in the context of criminal cases, but the procedure’s the same in civil cases, as a court of appeal recently explained in an employment case. A Read More
Read MoreCalifornia Supreme Court Revisits the Law of Access to Police Personnel Files
Police officers are human beings who are capable of making mistakes or behaving badly, just like anyone else, and if they testify in a criminal case, their credibility is always at issue, just like any other witness. So what do you do if you believe that an officer previously lied, behaved violently, used excessive force, or otherwise acted in ways that Read More
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