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April 12, 2013
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April 9, 2013
An emotional Mark Zerby, the father of 35-year-old Douglas Zerby who was shot and killed by Long Beach Police officers on December 12, 2010, told reporters that he felt vindicated with the unanimous decision the Federal District Court jury reached April 5. In it, the Zerby family was awarded $6.5 million and the two Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) officers involved in the shooting were found negligent and liable in the death of his son. Mark Zerby sued the City of Long Beach and LBPD officers Victor Ortiz and Jeffrey Shurtleff on civil rights violations claiming that the officers used excessive force when they shot and killed his son. On the day Douglas Zerby died, he had reportedly been waiting for a friend in the 5300 block of East Ocean Boulevard at about 4:30 p.m. when police received a 911 call of a man with a gun. Arriving on scene, the responding officers Ortiz and Shurtleff spent a reported eight minutes observing Zerby covertly believing he was under the influence of alcohol and holding a gun. What Zerby was holding was a disconnected water hose nozzle, when he was shot eight times by the two officers bearing a handgun and […]
April 5, 2013
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April 5, 2013
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March 12, 2013
In the annual State of the Judiciary address Monday, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye (pictured at right) decried the decimation of funding for state courts and taught lawmakers a lesson in legal history, the Los Angeles Times is reporting today. Cantil-Sakauye offered the landmark “right to counsel” 1963 case of Gideon v. Wainwright. Clarence Gideon was arrested and charged in Florida with breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor, a felony in that state. He was too poor to hire a lawyer, and his request for counsel to be appointed was denied because under Florida law, the only time the court can appoint counsel to represent a defendant is when that person is charged with a capital offense. Forced to represent himself he was found guilty, and sentenced to five years in prison. His subsequent appeal to the Florida supreme court was denied. From his cell, making use of the prison library and writing in pencil on prison stationery, Gideon appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that he had been denied counsel and, therefore, his Sixth Amendment rights, as applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, had been violated. The Supreme Court held that the right […]
March 12, 2013
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March 8, 2013
This advertisement appeared in the March 8, 2013, issue of Los Angeles Daily Journal.
February 15, 2013
This advertisement appeared in the February 15, 2013, issue of Los Angeles Daily Journal.
February 11, 2013
Executive Presentations may be based in the heart Los Angeles, but its reputation — and that of EP President Rick Kraemer has long been established throughout the greater Southern California region. Just ask the San Diego edition of Attorney Journal magazine, which profiled Rick as a Featured Professional for its February 2013 issue. His dedication to delivering the products and presentations that attorneys need to strengthen their cases, landed him accounts and the respect of San Diego firms and attorneys such as Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Juskie, LLP; Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire; Estey & Bomberger; LLP, Kenneth Sigelman; Casey Gerry LLP; and Chapin Fitzgerald, LLP. Prominent Los Angeles clients include Panish Shea & Boyle LLP; Girardi & Keese; Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley LLP; and Glaser Weil LLP. Orange County firms that regularly use Executive Presentations’ services include Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc.; Aitken, Aitken & Cohn; and Callahan & Blaine. Headlined “A Quest To Win,” the article by writer Jennifer Hadley looks at Rick’s background and the history of EP from its humble beginnings in 1986, beginning with its birth from Rick’s previous endeavor with a company focused on the development of a graphics presentation system, to its success today. […]
February 8, 2013
This advertisement appeared in the February 8, 2013, issue of Los Angeles Daily Journal.