Author name: The Civil Rights Lawyer

Yes I’m mad: just revealed today…. An FBI agent leaked the video I provided to federal prosecutors showing drug task force cops illegally searching my client’s home, before I ever publicly released it!!! He told them I had a video and what was on it, instead of actually questioning them! Said let’s have a beer….. […]

Reuters reported a few days ago on a recent set of court orders from a federal judge in West Virginia finding a troubling pattern of illegal search warrants obtained by drug task force officers. Unbelievably, instead of prosecuting perjury, the prosecutors begged the Court to reconsider disclosing the lies and thus ruining a cop’s career

I met with a class of high school seniors in Washington DC via Zoom yesterday, who had questions about qualified immunity and about their rights are when interacting with police. It was a fantastic experience and it got me to thinking that every kid should know this information before graduating high school. Though most people

Today we filed a motion for summary judgment in the federal civil rights lawsuit against Family Court Judge Louise Goldston, arguing that she should be denied judicial immunity, as well as foreclosed from even arguing at trial that her actions didn’t violate the Constitution. In other words, the jury trial in her case should be

The Raleigh County Sheriff’s Deputy defendants in the Family Court Judge Search case have requested qualified immunity from the federal court in their motion for summary judgment in the pending civil lawsuit. Unfortunately for them, they can’t claim judicial immunity, as the judge has, even where following orders of a judge. So they’re stuck with

I already posted the crazy video footage showing an off duty police officer on a rampage at Greg’s Sports Bar in October of 2021. It’s long, but highly interesting: Here’s the backstory which led up to that night. About a week before the rampage incident, there was a shooting in the parking lot of the

Edgar Orea brought me this footage. He’s a street preacher who was arrested in Bluefield, West Virginia for the content of his protected First Amendment speech. Edgar and his wife moved to Bluefield in order to serve the people of nearby McDowell County, West Virginia, which is the poorest county in the entire nation. But

A West Virginia Circuit Court Judge was publicly admonished by the Judicial Investigation Commission for ordering the arrest of two correctional officers, who were transporting an inmate appearing before the Court. The two COs were arrested by sheriff’s deputies, for supposedly failing to obey a verbal order to transport an inmate to a different jail.

In February of 2022, at a high school basketball game in West Virginia, a Princeton police officer attacked a beloved local coach who suffers from bone cancer. Caught on camera from multiple angles. He suffered a fractured knee. source

An Alabama pastor who was helping a neighbor by watering her roses was confronted by police after another Karen neighbor reported a suspicious person. They demanded ID and that he respect their authority. He stood up for his rights and refused to be harassed. They arrested him for obstruction. Was he required to provide ID?