Articles by Bill Trine | Prison Legal News

Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder (Book Review)

Loaded on Feb. 2, 2016 by Bill Trine published in Prison Legal News February, 2016, page 28

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Reviews, Police--Excessive Force, Excessive Force (Police). Location: United States of America.

Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder, by Gerry Spence
(St. Martin’s Press, 2015). 338 pages, hard cover. $19.40

Book review by Bill Trine

In recent years, the American public has witnessed shocking videos, taken by cell phones with video cameras, of citizens brutalized and killed by the ...

The Genesis of Increasing Incidents of Police Brutality: The War on Drugs

Loaded on June 3, 2015 by Bill Trine

Filed under: Police Searches, War on Drugs, Forfeiture, Excessive Force (Police), Racial Profiling. Location: United States of America.

The Genesis of Increasing Incidents of Police Brutality: The War on Drugs

By Bill Trine

What is the cause of the spiraling increase in police assaults on people whom they should help to protect --- not brutalize or kill? In just the month of March, 2015, American police killed 111 ...

Colorado Restraint Board Death Case Settled

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002 by Bill Trine published in Prison Legal News January, 2002, page 20

Filed under: CMS, Medication, Excessive Force, Restraints, Damages, Contractor Liability, Failure to Train/Supervise, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness). Location: Colorado.

by Bill Trine, esq.

A§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit and medical/healthcare negligence lawsuit was brought by the mother of 54 year old Michael Lewis, who died on May 7, 1998, after being placed on a "restrainer board" while incarcerated as a pre-trial detainee at the El Paso County Criminal Justice ...