Category: Criminal Defense

If a taser or stun gun is used in an excessive manner against someone, then that person would have a civil rights violation claim. In order to prove such a violation, it would have to be shown that the officer’s use of the taser or stun gun was not justified under the...

Cases brought against the police are not necessarily difficult to win; it’s just a matter of sorting the facts and ensuring that the case has a strong basis. There is no reason why suing a police officer should be any different than using any other individual who has engaged in some sort...

SAN FRANCISCO — The parents of a 21-year-old Antioch man who was being trailed by undercover narcotics officers when he was fatally shot by Concord police last May have filed a federal civil rights suit claiming their son was “intentionally and maliciously” killed. Charles Burns was shot and killed...

MARTINEZ — Jurors have acquitted one man and convicted another of stabbing to death a Bethel Island man in 2005. After two days of deliberations, jurors Wednesday found Pittsburg resident Daniel Jones, 27, guilty of second-degree murder and personal use of a knife for killing Keith Wolf, 21, outside...