UPDATE: Federal judge dismisses allegations against Hamilton County in Daniel Wilkey cases
Wilkey had been named in multiple lawsuits that date back to 2019, when he was accused for baptizing Shandle Riley after a traffic stop.
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Wilkey had been named in multiple lawsuits that date back to 2019, when he was accused for baptizing Shandle Riley after a traffic stop.
The commission approved a resolution Wednesday clarifying the rules around reporting spending in ongoing litigation.
After the Hamilton County auditor identified expenses with four legal vendors that she said didn't receive proper signoff from county officials, commissioners are asking County Attorney Rheubin Taylor to provide them with more regular reporting on those agreements.
7 posts published by Tim Cushing, Dark Helmet, Mike Masnick, Gretchen Heckmann, and Karl Bode on November 16, 2022
Courts are cool with pretextual stops. As long as a cop can make up a reasonably good excuse for pulling someone over, they can start casting their lines in hopes of bigger fish. Given enough time and bullshit, cops can often talk people into warrantless roadside searches. But the pretext needs to be reasonable. And, thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2015 Rodriguez decision, delaying the stop unreasonably to engage in fishing expeditions is no longer lawful. That’s where these two deputies fucked up. Caught on their own cameras, the deputies ignored the pretext for the stop and tried to con...