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Friday, February 11, 2011

Vacaville Ca - dodges the hit

The last (possibly THE last) helmet ticket written by Vacaville PD officers was scheduled for trial today. The discovery answer came back that not only the citing officer would testify, but our old friend Officer Love would testify as an "expert" witness (He was not present at the traffic stop).
It has been about 2 weeks since any Internal Affairs personnel would return the defendant's calls, and they are literally giving the impression there is no IA personnel in the PD.
They knew it would be a hard fight. We were ready.

Neither Officer Higby or Officer Love showed up for court today.

We are interpreting this as a deliberate move by the VPD.

It may be that the network of riders in that county will experience the same treatment when the typical discovery and IA steps are followed.

It is unclear whether Officer Love was too busy selling Pampered Chef kitchen products to attend trial, but we believe he (along with Higby) was told by the VPD not to appear for trial. It makes the last 1 1/2 years even more worthwhile. It's time to step up the network to insure we know of every helmet ticket in Solano County, and encourage other riders to re-manufacture their helmets down a little smaller.
Congratulations to Andy, the defendant.

Mark Temple

Guerrilla Lawfare
BOLT of California