District Attorney David Paulson Found Liable for Retaliation
August 28, 2009
This is an interesting jury verdict:
Solano County, Calif., District Attorney David Paulson retaliated against a bail bondsman who slammed the prosecutor in a newspaper ad, a federal court jury decided Wednesday.
Paulson and his chief investigator, Al Garza, acted with malice when they sought a temporary restraining order against Joel Thomas "Tom" Toler and then unsuccessfully pursued charges that he violated that order, the eight-member jury found.
The Recorder has the rest of the details here.
Retaliation claims are very hard to win. I won't have time to review this stuff until Sunday at the earliest. I have, however, uploaded the Complaint as well as the Order denying summary judgment, and thus allowing the retaliation claim to go to trial: