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District Attorney David Paulson Found Liable for Retaliation

This is an interesting jury verdict: Solano County, Calif., District Attorney David Paulson retaliated against a bail bondsman who slammed the prosecutor in a newspaper ad, a federal court jury decided Wednesday.Paulson and his chief investigator, Al Garza, acted with malice when they sought a temporary restraining order against Joel Thomas "Tom" Toler and then unsuccessfully pursued charges that he violated that order, the eight-member jury found.The Recorder has the rest of the details here.Retaliation claims are very hard to win.  I won't have time to review this stuff until Sunday at the earliest.  I have, however, uploaded the Complaint as well as the Order denying summary judgment, and thus allowing the retaliation claim to go to trial: Download Retaliation Complaint   Download Retaliation Order continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 28, 2009 (boomark / email).