The only way to make them learn is to make them pay.

Great job!

Congratulations

P.S. Happy Holidays to everyone except JL (u can diaf, lol)

Just came to this Carlos’ conflict yesterday via link from Coyoteblog. After extensive reading of lots of months’ blogs and comments, reached that conclusion. Some elaboration follows:

I greatly respect the self discipline Carlos has exhibited in the discussions. I respect, too, the professional, courteous elaboration of some of the paid staff “on the other side”, ie, several police officers and a few prosecutor lawyers. The interactions have, among other results, shown that sometimes deciding exactly what the law says does not happen easily. (Side trail: I suggest the idea that if not a lawyer one cannot figure out the law makes for monstrously serious unpredictability.)

That is why I think Carlos needs to take money from the personal accounts of the perps that have attacked him. No matter their professionalism, no matter their defense of having to make instant, snap judgements, etc, etc (all of which reduce to some technical legal verbage such as “acting under color of law” or similar), they did wrong. I understand (and agree with) the idea that if it becomes too hard for an officer or judge or lawyer to know whether they might suffer personal loss from an error, they will tend to not make hard decisions. But the perps working over Carlos did wrong they should have recognized. Neither situation photographed allows for another interpretation.

The only way to make those with power honest is to make them personally pay for dishonesty. That’s the “send them a message” bit. Take them for enough money that they will recognize that continuing to defy the Constitution will create a cottage industry where ‘pro se’ folks will make a living out of fighting them in courts. That will utterly squash the “we can outlast you” tactic behind which so many Constitution defying acts hide.

You should file a notice for change of judge, or whatever the equivalent is in Florida, which would require a different judge to hear it. In Arizona, you can do that without cause, and it’s automatic, once. You should also be able to request a change of judge for cause, as many times as needed, as long as you can articulate a reason why a judge might be biased or there might be an appearance of bias.

Better yet, see if you can get an attorney to help you, and then file a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit for the police officers’ violations of your civil rights — they were violating clearly established civil rights, and should have known better. They may be individually liable.