Dave from down under wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:13 pm
Yeah
He admitted he also wanted to provoke someone
so he could sue for the big bucks
Good luck with that.
THe 1AA I follow are on the side of the Civil Rights movement. Some of them reach after years the settlement phase with modest payouts, very much depending on the incident. The fastest settlement for unlawful trespass from a postoffice was within six months and a payment of approx $16000 (police had no jurisdiction in that specific postoffice, it was the domain of the Postal Police). Most simple unlawful trespasses from a public buildings will just get dismissed in court, eg the trespass order dropped.
Other illegal trespasses from public buildings and from publically accessible areas end in a illegal arrest and usually the charges get dropped in court. Sometimes a DA will try to elongate the time to trial by playing dirty tricks. The dirties move is to drop the charges at the day of trial after extending for months and requesting the defendant and his lawer to travel far. Depending how long the polices takes to provide the public records, eg the police body cams and 911 recordings, it can take nearly two years to trial.
The expierienced 1AA who expects such LEO interactions will have an attorney at their fingertips.
The payout process starts at best after a trial with a federal law suit against the involved police officers, their department and city. The time until trial date can be an additional two years if the defendants do not prefer to settle before. Payouts at this time will be like $100K to $150K, depending how rough police (man-)handled the situation and how many days a 1AA was locked up in jail until bail hearing (arrested on Friday, wait for judge hearing and see the light of day again the following Wednesday).
From that "astronomical payout" a good chunk goes to your lawyer.
The 1AA of the Civil Rights movement variety tend to also request that procedures of the police get changed and continued education of 1st Amendment rights get taught. Like repeated over the next five years.