In my personal injury practice, it is uncommon to encounter a survivor of a severe injury who becomes addicted to pain killers. On the other hand, most clients are concerned that the medications prescribed for them will lead to addiction. The truth is that pain killers promote movement and healing. They should be taken as […]
Spinal Cord Injuries: Protecting Your Rights
While any accident can have a person’s life turned upside down, the diagnosis of a spinal cord injury is particularly tragic and devastating for the victim and their family. The spinal cord is a complex organization of nerve cells that are responsible for all of the body’s movement and sensation and a small amount of […]
Brutal Indifference by Police Leads to the Death of Woman, Age 26
Police brutality comes in many forms. In this case, it was brutal indifference by the Modesto Police Department (MPD) to a plea for help by a delusional woman who on Friday evening June 21, 2013 called 911 to report that a SWAT team was outside her house and she was sending her daughter outside. The […]
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Security Guard with an Illegal Gun Threatens Christmas Shopper
It is December 5, Saturday, noon. Valley Fair shopping mall in San Jose is bustling with holiday shoppers. A private security guard unlicensed to carry a gun is standing in front of the mall’s parking garage, directing traffic exiting the mall. The guard sees a car drive over an orange cone. He abandons his post, […]
Civil Rights Violations —
Nose, Jaw & Mouth Shot Off in California Highway Patrol Traffic Arrest
As a result of extraordinary police incompetence and his own tragic decision, Donald Coca, 45, an employee of the San Jose Mercury News, had his nose, jaw and mouth brutally destroyed by a shotgun, following an arrest for a traffic violation. Short of death, Don’s lifelong injuries represent the most brutal penalty imposed on a […]
