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BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: January 16, 2012
Tags: beating, Cody Denard Beasley, excessive force, greenbelt, lawsuit, maryland, police, Prince George's County, Settlement, u..s district court
Prince George’s County paid $55,000 to a Hyattsville man who claimed he was beaten by three county police officers, according to documents obtained under the Maryland Public Information Act. The settlement with Cody Denard Beasley was reported Nov. 28, but the county declined to give the amount at the time. The Daily Record then filed [...]
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BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: November 27, 2011
Tags: Cody Denard Beasley, excessive force, federal civil rights lawsuit, lawsuit, maryland public information act, police, Prince George's County, Prince George’s police officers, Settlement, U.S. District Court in Greenbelt
A Hyattsville man who claimed he was beaten by three Prince George’s police officers in 2008 has reached an out-of-court settlement of his $20 million federal civil rights lawsuit against the county. Cody Denard Beasley claimed he suffered permanent nerve damage and has lost feeling in his right thumb after the officers threw him against [...]
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BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: October 16, 2011
Tags: civil procedure, constitutional law, custody, excessive force, habeas corpus, maryland, U.S. District Court
Civil Procedure Habeas corpus petition custody requirement BOTTOM LINE: Mandatory sex offender registration does not meet the requirements of custody for purposes of federal habeas relief, and therefore petition for writ of habeas corpus, which was filed after petitioner’s criminal sentence had expired and was premised solely on the registration requirement, was dismissed for lack [...]
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BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: August 14, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore city circuit court, board of estimates, CHRISTENSEN THREATT V. LAWRENCE J. SMITH JR., Christiansen Threatt, excessive force, lawsuit, misconduct, police
Baltimore’s Board of Estimates approved a $30,000 payment to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a 33-year-old city man who claimed he was beaten and jailed by police after he called in a domestic abuse complaint. The board approved the settlement at its weekly meeting on Wednesday. Since mid-2007, misconduct lawsuits filed against the [...]
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BY: Danielle Ulman
POSTED: July 31, 2011
Tags: arrest, Carl C. Drewry III, Deputy Sheriff Shane Stevenson, excessive force, frederick, gaithersburg, maryland, Settlement, trespassing
A man who claimed a Frederick County sheriff’s deputy used excessive force against him during an arrest for trespassing has settled his claim against the deputy. Carl C. Drewry III missed more than a month of work as a nuclear engineer in Gaithersburg because of shoulder injuries he sustained during the arrest, according to his [...]
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BY: Brendan Kearney
POSTED: July 19, 2011
Tags: assault, Baltimore, baltimore city circuit court, Baltimore’s Board of Estimates, beating, Bugler Original Turkish & Blended Cigarette Tobacco, City Solicitor George A. Nilson, Derrick G. Hamlin, excessive force, Lornell Felder, Northwest District Police Station, Officer Robert G. Cirello, Officer Tyrone Francis, police, police misconduct, settlements
Baltimore’s Board of Estimates is poised to approve a $100,000 payment to a 65-year-old man who alleged he was badly beaten outside his Govans home two years ago by plainclothes police officers who suspected he was rolling a joint. The city spending panel will also consider a proposal to award $31,800 to one of the [...]
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BY: Danielle Ulman
POSTED: July 17, 2011
Tags: arrest, attack, Classics Nightclub, excessive force, greenbelt, MarQus L. Stevenson, nightclub, Officer Lavance Lowery, police, Prince George's County, U.S. District Court Judge Roger W. Titus, verdict
A jury in federal court in Greenbelt has awarded $36,000 to a man who claimed police officers attacked and arrested him outside a Prince George’s nightclub without provocation. The jury found that Officer Lavance Lowery deprived MarQus L. Stevenson of his federal constitutional rights by using excessive force, awarding Stevenson with $16,000 in past lost [...]
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BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: April 24, 2011
Tags: excessive force, greenbelt, jury, melissa dent, Montgomery County, montgomery villiage, police officers, U.S. District Court, woman
A federal jury has ruled against a woman who alleged in an $18 million lawsuit that Montgomery County police officers roughed her up after responding to a call that she had tried to kill herself. Melissa Dent claimed the four officers — without provocation — “slammed” her to the floor of her Montgomery Village home, [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 28, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, brutality, Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld, corruption, excessive force, firing, judge, Michael Marshall, police officer
A Baltimore judge upheld the firing of a police officer shown on video berating and pushing a 14-year-old skateboarder who addressed the officer as “dude.” The department’s trial board found Officer Salvatore Rivieri not guilty of using excessive and unnecessary force and uttering a discourtesy, but guilty of failing to issue a citizen contact receipt [...]
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BY: Erin Drenning
POSTED: January 17, 2011
Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, child pornography, excessive force, fourth amendment, Jefferson County Special Operations Team, no-knock entry, police, Samuel Joseph Bellotte, Special Operations Team, warrant, west virginia
Members of three Special Operations Team squads who stormed a West Virginia home after 10 p.m. with a search warrant do not have qualified immunity for their no-knock entry or the alleged use of excessive force against the family’s teenage son, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. That the officers suspected that [...]
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