Where To Turn When You’ve Been Wronged

The Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment and other laws provide important protections to those who cross paths with police. Our civil rights lawyers practicing in Leon County and elsewhere in Florida, as well as in Georgia, have held law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities accountable for a wide range of abuses, namely:

• Excessive force – We pursue compensation for beatings, manhandling of people in handcuffs, improper use of Tasers, injuries inflicted by police dogs, improper use of deadly force, and other police brutality or disregard for the safety of suspects.
• False arrest – We have represented citizens who were pulled over, detained, questioned and searched for no probable cause whatsoever, including cases of planted evidence, racial profiling and trumped-up charges of resisting arrest.
• Civil rights abuses in jail or prison – The constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment is routinely violated. We have handled cases of beatings by guards, failure to stop assaults by other inmates, abusive use of solitary confinement, deprivation of medical care and other inhumane treatment of prisoners. We are skilled at getting around the “blue wall of silence” among police officers and prison guards to hold lawless officers to justice and to compensate our clients accordingly. While we cannot demand that a police officer be fired as a legal remedy, our advocacy has often contributed to disciplinary actions and terminations of those officers.