Sunday Morning Slander

This just in from the "some people just wanna get sued" file:

Credits for the video belong to sfpublicdefender at Youtube.com.

On January 27, 2015 at the San Francisco Hall of Justice, Deputy Public Defender, Jami Tillotson, was arrested for resisting arrest. That can't be right?

I watched the video again, and yes it has been confirmed that she has been arrested for resisting arrest.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Stupid. stupid. stupid. stupid. No, stupid. No!

Maybe for obstruction, maybe disobeying a lawful police order... Agugh! Even that is mind blowingly stupid.

Ok, police have discretion, right. So let's say, technically, Ms. Tillotson was obstructing justice (I'm not from California, and I am not going to waste my time looking up the Statute.) It would behoove the Police Department to not arrest her without having absolute certainty, because by arresting her in front of her CLIENT in a COURTHOUSE you have deprived her client of their 6th Amendment right and not mention a whole host of privileges that go with it.

Sorry for being lazy before. It would appear that obstruction and resisting arrest are treated by the same Statute.  Here is Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1):

Every person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health and Safety Code, in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment, when no other punishment is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

The nonsense phrase of arrested for resting arrest makes more sense... sort of... well not really as this is not obstruction which Black's Law Dictionary defines as:

Interference with the orderly administration of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or juror.

So nope to resist and nope to obstruction.

Furthermore what the fuck where the police doing gathering information at the Courthouse? That's very late to be gathering evidence.

And because the police were wrong, not only are they open to several lawsuits, but any would be evidence would be inadmissible. So great job dic. You'll be promoted to Chief any day now.

Alright I'm bored by this now. So much more to this based off of other articles.


Liam '15