Irvine Police Officer, David Alex Park, Ejaculates on Motorist – And Gets Away With It

No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine Police Department officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.

When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Allan H. Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream’s Cabaret.

“She got what she wanted,” said Stokke. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”

A jury of one woman and 11 men—many white and in their 50s or 60s—agreed with Stokke. On Feb. 2, after a half-day of deliberations, they found Park not guilty of three felony charges that he’d used his badge to win sexual favors during the December 2004 traffic stop.

Is the California DMV rigging DMV hearings?

I just received a response to a California Public Records Act request I filed about THREE MONTHS ago….

According to the documents, it seems that San Diego DMV Manager Brian Dawson is unhappy that his hearing officers (aka “HO’s” for fun), aren’t summarily suspending all people who challenge the California Department of Motor Vehicles evidence in DUI administrative hearings, as he apparently would like to happen. In fact, it looks like there have been just too many “set asides” for his liking.

Of course, we in the criminal defense community know that most of the HO’s do, in fact, summarily suspend licenses, even when the weight of the evidence is against the Department. So, the fact that Brian Dawson sent a memo out to the HO’s that the few who actually did issue what we call “set aside’s” were derelict in their duties, is astounding and frightening.

Mr. Dawson sent out a “confidential” email to his HO’s telling them he was unhappy with the state of the set asides. That’s what just came over my desk.

Is Mr. Dawson trying to “rig” the DMV hearings? I think the answer is a resounding “Yes.” In fact, in a subsequent memo to the HO’s, he even suggests that the Whistleblower statute might apply to anyone who ID’s the person who originally leaked this info to defense attorneys.

DMV sued over medical marijuana

Matt Vaughn, who operates a medical marijuana collective, eventually got his driver’s license and marijuana back after a CHP officer found the drug — for which he had a doctor’s recommendation — in his car.

The lawsuit says patients are unfairly targeted for license suspensions.

The California Highway Patrol officer smelled the weed, searched the car, took the marijuana and pipe and gave Vaughn a sobriety test, which he passed. An angry Vaughn showed the officer his doctor’s recommendation to use marijuana for glaucoma. The officer was unimpressed.

“He said, in Glenn County, they don’t recognize those kinds of things,” said Vaughn, 55, who has a long ponytail, mustache and beard. “He was not very friendly about it.”

The 2005 incident cost Vaughn a speeding ticket, his 1 1/4 ounce of pot and his driver’s license — and nine months of fighting the California Department of Motor Vehicles — before he prevailed.

As a result of that and other encounters involving medical marijuana, an advocacy group has sued the DMV, asking for a written policy that says medical marijuana should be treated the same as prescription drugs.

The suit contends that the DMV has a pattern of investigating and suspending the driver’s licenses of people who use pot on the recommendation of their doctors.

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Palm Springs to legalize medical marijuana dispensaries

Solano County Sued Over Pot ID Cards

Lawsuit filed over refusal to issue medical marijuana card

Medical pot user sues DMV to get license back

Arcata approves medical marijuana guidelines

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