4/6/13 MY LETTER to BRIAN CHARLES, PASADENA STAR NEWS re PASADENA POLICE DEPT, EXCESSIVE FORCE, & HUGH HALFORD

[apparently Hugh Halford & the Pasadena PD are still up to their old tricks re withholding evidence to win their case(s) at the expense of true justice. Our only hope is that sooner or later something will put the fear of God in them. I dont see any other hope for justice. My efforts using the L.A. justice system revealed to me that it is a kangaroo court, and clearly by winning they feel they can keep doing what they are wrongfully doing. ]

Dear Brian, I read your article re Pasadena PD & the evidence cover-up lawsuit & noticed the name Hugh Halford. I took on the Pasadena PD re an excessive force incident back around 2000-01 when I was a student at Fuller Seminary, & Hugh Halford represented the city. They offered me a tiny settlement amount, but I rejected it & went to trial, at which point they , or he (Halford) really started putting on the pressure with abusive letters & phone calls (he would call & start literally yelling at me despite me saying I would not do any business over the phone..., until I changed my phone # to stop him). The alleged "malfunctioned dispatch tape" was the smoking gun in my case against Pasadena.There was simply NO WAY one section of the digital tape "malfunctioned" as they alleged..when both sides were still good. They had destroyed evidence to conceal what would have proven they were out-of-control emotionally (ie yelling,screaming,swearing,using unprofessional abusive
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language towards me) and Hugh Halford "winked" at their malfeasance. As it turned out, Halford had just arrived at Pasadena from Santa Ana (where he was either fired or pressured to resign due to a case involving somebody named Mooc if I recall correctly..he apparently was in the OC jail & alleged that Halford covered up evidence & the court found in favor of Mooc (at the time, albeit I watched it progress & ultimately Halford got it reversed by the california appeals court...maybe some "insider" shenanigans in his favor). Halford is a slick customer & actually started out as an LAPD police officer "back in the day" when LAPD had more of a notorious reputation (I found out all of this during my research leading up to the trial).

Halford made sure I found out NOTHING about the background or history of the cops who abused me at a traffic accident , and there's LOTS MORE, but I will leave it at that for now. I was new to Pasadena at the time...was a seminary student & also working for the LAUSD as a substitute teacher at the time...and they treated me like trash. By the way, they also managed to get the court to stifle a book written by an ex-cop revealing corruption inside the PASADENA PD .
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***KEEP UP the GOOD WORK! KEEP REPORTING! ***

THIS IS WHAT PROMPTED ME TO WRITE TO BRIAN CHARLES:

"Pasadena Police Department faces lawsuit over hidden evidence in shooting By Brian Charles, Staff Writer twitter.com/JBrianCharles Posted: 03/04/2013 10:30:24 PM PST Updated: 03/04/2013 11:11:52 PM PST PASADENA - A former resident says Pasadena police failed to turn over evidence - including several hundred photographs during a criminal trial in which he was charged with assault. Attorneys for Sherwin Williams, 46, of Fontana said they learned of the evidence while preparing for a civil trial against the city and two Pasadena police officers. The suit alleges officers Alex Torres and Kenneth Florendo engaged in an excessive use of force and assaulted Williams when they fired 22 rounds at his pickup truck on Dec. 27, 2010. Williams' suit seeks unspecified damages. Williams' suit also claims the city was negligent and failed to train and supervise the officers involved in the shooting that damaged several cars and an outdoor storage container. "The cops unloaded 22 shots in a crowded intersection," said Danielle Claxton, one of Williams' attorneys. "Those cops lied." City officials have denied Williams' claims. Williams was not hurt in the shooting. He was later arrested
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on suspicion of attempted murder and faced a possible life sentence. Williams was ultimately charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm and the illegal discharge of a single shot. He was acquitted of all charges in October 2011. Before Williams' criminal trial, his defense attorneys received 218 photos taken by the Pasadena Police Department, said Anthony Willoughby, Williams' lead trial attorney. More than two years after the incident - and a year after the criminal trial ended Willoughby said his office received more than 500 additional crime-scene photos sent to his office by Pasadena Assistant City Attorney Hugh "Tim" Halford. "He could have gone away for life and they held these photos," Willoughby said. Neither Halford nor Pasadena police Chief Phillip Sanchez could be reached Monday for comment. Shortly after Williams' arrest, the Pasadena Police Department issued a press release alleging that Williams fired directly at the officers, and that an officer was injured as a result. The specific details of the injury were never released. Williams attorney said the shot fired by his client - into the air - never came close to the officers. Initial reports from the Police Department identified Williams as a "known associate" of the Pasadena Denver Lanes. His attorney denies the allegation. Police Detective William Broghamer was the investigating officer on the Williams shooting. Broghamer was moved to desk duty last month after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler, while declaring a mistrial in a murder case, called Broghamer's actions in that murder investigation "egregious." Broghamer failed to turn over exculpatory evidence in the murder case and threatened a witness. Before the shooting, Williams said he was confronted by a member of the Pasadena Denver Lanes Blood gang. Williams
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claims the gang member called him a snitch and threatened to kill him in the CVS parking lot in the 900 block of North Lake Avenue. In his claim against the city, Williams acknowledged firing a "single shot" into the air to protect himself and ward off the approaching gang member. Police officers involved in a traffic stop nearby said they witnessed the shooting. In their initial reports, Torres and Florendo said they believed Williams was about to shoot them and fired on his pickup truck as it left the scene. After Fidler's decision, Sanchez launched an independent audit of the Police Department and its tactics. The audit is the latest of several investigations into the department. Independent investigation by the department's Internal Affairs unit, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Internal Affairs Bureau, the county Alternate Public Defender's Office, and the county District Attorney's Office are under way. brian.charles@sgvn.com 626-657-0986