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Monday, June 29, 2020

Public Information Updates: Laney Sweet, et al. v. City of Mesa, et al. United States District Court, Case No. CV-17-00152-GMS

On Monday The Mesa City Council will go "behind doors" on a Virtual Platform format into a closed-to-the-public EXECUTIVE SESSION
Convene an Executive Session. ES-002-20
Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (3)) Discussion or consultation with the City Attorney in order to consider the City’s position and instruct the City Attorney regarding the City’s position regarding pending or contemplated litigation or in settlement discussions conducted in order to avoid or resolve litigation.
(A.R.S. §38-431.03A(4))1.

Laney Sweet, et al. v. City of Mesa, et al.
United States District Court, Case No. CV-17-00152-GMS
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Public Information: Laney Sweet, et al. v. City of Mesa, et al.

SOURCE: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6246245/sweet-v-mesa-city-of/

Last Updated: June 26, 2020, 4:39 p.m. MST

Assigned To: Grant Murray Snow

Date Filed: Jan. 17, 2017

Date of Last Known Filing: June 26, 2019

Cause: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other

Jury Demand: Both

Jurisdiction Type: Federal Question

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SOURCE: https://casetext.com/case/sweet-v-city-of-mesa

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BLOGGER NOTE: The following is taken from Page 3 and starts with Docket Entry 429 from 28 April 2020

428

Apr 28, 2020

ORDER: Granting the parties' 427 Stipulation to Extend Deadlines as follows:

The parties shall complete the reopened deposition of Laney Sweet and additional discovery directed to Sweet Plaintiffs no later than July 10, 2020.
The Brailsford Defendants shall file their supplement to their Motion for Summary Judgment no later than August 10, 2020.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the deadlines shall not be extended absent extraordinary circumstances.
Signed by Chief Judge G Murray Snow on 4/28/20. (GMP) (Entered: 04/28/2020)

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Order on Stipulation

430

Apr 29, 2020

TRANSCRIPT REQUEST by Bryan Cochran, Christopher Doane, Brian Elmore, Mesa, City of for proceedings held on 2/20/2020, Judge G Murray Snow hearing judge(s). (Retts, Christina) (Entered: 04/29/2020)

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Transcript Request

431

Apr 30, 2020

RESPONSE to Motion re: 421 MOTION Regarding Proposed Search Term Protocol re: 396 Order, Set Scheduling Order Deadlines, Terminate Motions filed by Laney Sweet. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Richards, William) (Entered: 04/30/2020)

Main Document

Response to Motion

432

May 4, 2020

NOTICE of Service of Discovery filed by Laney Sweet. (Stuart, Shayna) (Entered: 05/04/2020)

Main Document

Notice of Service of Discovery

433

May 5, 2020

NOTICE of Appearance by Joel Grant Woods on behalf of Laney Sweet. (Woods, Joel) (Entered: 05/05/2020)

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Notice of Appearance/Association of Counsel

434

May 7, 2020

REPLY to Response to Motion re: 421 MOTION Regarding Proposed Search Term Protocol re: 396 Order, Set Scheduling Order Deadlines, Terminate Motions filed by Bryan Cochran, Christopher Doane, Brian Elmore, Mesa, City of. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1-5)(Retts, Christina) (Entered: 05/07/2020)

Main Document

Reply to Response to Motion

435

May 7, 2020

Joinder re: 434 Reply to Response to Motion, 421 MOTION Regarding Proposed Search Term Protocol re: 396 Order, Set Scheduling Order Deadlines, Terminate Motions by Defendants Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford. filed by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford. (Stillwell, Karen) (Entered: 05/07/2020)

Main Document

Joinder

436

May 15, 2020

MOTION for Protective Order Against the Brailsford Defendants' Subpoena Duces Tecum to Setec Investigations, Inc. by Laney Sweet. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1-4, # 2 Text of Proposed Order)(Richards, William) (Entered: 05/15/2020)

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Protective Order

Attachment 1

Exhibit 1-4

Attachment 2

Text of Proposed Order

437

May 29, 2020

RESPONSE to Motion re: 436 MOTION for Protective Order Against the Brailsford Defendants' Subpoena Duces Tecum to Setec Investigations, Inc. filed by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5)(Stillwell, Karen) (Entered: 05/29/2020)

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Response to Motion

438

May 29, 2020

MOTION to Seal Document 437 Response to Motion Exhibit 5 in support of Brailsford Defendants' Response to Sweet Plaintiffs Expedited Motion for Protective Order against the Brailsford Defendants Subpoena Duces Tecum to Setec Investigations, Inc. by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Stillwell, Karen) (Entered: 05/29/2020)

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Seal Document

439

May 29, 2020

SEALED LODGED Proposed Exhibit 5 in support of their Response to Sweet Plaintiffs Expedited Motion for Protective Order against the Brailsford Defendants Subpoena Duces Tecum to Setec Investigations, Inc. re: 438 MOTION to Seal Document 437 Response to Motion Exhibit 5 in support of Brailsford Defendants' Response to Sweet Plaintiffs Expedited Motion for Protective Order against the Brailsford Defendants Subpoena Duces Tecum to Setec Investigatio. Document to be filed by Clerk if Motion or Stipulation to Seal is granted. Filed by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 5)(Stillwell, Karen) (Entered: 05/29/2020)

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Sealed Lodged Proposed Document (NEF)

440

Jun 5, 2020

REPLY to Response to Motion re: 436 MOTION for Protective Order Against the Brailsford Defendants' Subpoena Duces Tecum to Setec Investigations, Inc. filed by Laney Sweet. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1-3)(Richards, William) (Entered: 06/05/2020)

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Reply to Response to Motion

Attachment 1

Exhibit 1-3

441

Jun 5, 2020

ORDER - Discovery Dispute Hearing set for 6/12/20 at 10:00 AM in Courtroom 602, 401 West Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003 before Chief Judge G. Murray Snow. Signed by Chief Judge G. Murray Snow on 6/5/20. (NKS) (Entered: 06/05/2020)

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~Util - Set/Reset Hearings AND Order

442

Jun 9, 2020

MOTION for Leave to Appear by Telephone at 6-12-20 Hearing by Charles J Langley. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Scharff, Spencer) (Entered: 06/09/2020)

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Appear

443

Jun 10, 2020

ORDER granting 442 Motion for Leave to Appear By Telephone. James Belanger and James Scharff may appear telephonically and shall disseminate the call-in number to the Court via email no later than noon Thursday, June 11, 2020. Signed by Chief Judge G Murray Snow on 6/10/20. (SJF) (Entered: 06/10/2020)

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Order on Motion for Leave to Appear

444

Jun 10, 2020

MOTION to Seal Document Notice of Filing of Information Pursuant to Court Directive, and supporting Exhibits 1-4 by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Stillwell, Karen) (Entered: 06/10/2020)

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Seal Document

445

Jun 10, 2020

NOTICE of Service of Discovery filed by Laney Sweet. (Stuart, Shayna) (Entered: 06/10/2020)

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Notice of Service of Discovery

446

Jun 10, 2020

SEALED LODGED Proposed Notice of Filing of Information Pursuant to Court Directive re: 444 MOTION to Seal Document Notice of Filing of Information Pursuant to Court Directive, and supporting Exhibits 1-4. Document to be filed by Clerk if Motion or Stipulation to Seal is granted. Filed by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1-5)(Stillwell, Karen) (Entered: 06/10/2020)

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Sealed Lodged Proposed Document (NEF)

447

Jun 10, 2020

Joint MOTION to Seal Document Joint Notice of Extrajudicial Statements by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford, Bryan Cochran, Christopher Doane, Brian Elmore, Richard Gomez, Charles J Langley, Mesa, City of. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Scharff, Spencer) (Entered: 06/10/2020)

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Seal Document

Attachment 1

Text of Proposed Order

448

Jun 10, 2020

SEALED LODGED Proposed UNDER SEAL Joint Notice of Extrajudicial Statements re: 447 Joint MOTION to Seal Document Joint Notice of Extrajudicial Statements. Document to be filed by Clerk if Motion or Stipulation to Seal is granted. Filed by Corrine Brailsford, Philip Mitchell Brailsford, Bryan Cochran, Christopher Doane, Brian Elmore, Richard Gomez, Charles J Langley, Mesa, City of. (Scharff, Spencer) (Entered: 06/10/2020)

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Sealed Lodged Proposed Document (NEF)

449

Jun 11, 2020

NOTICE of Service of Discovery filed by Laney Sweet. (Stuart, Shayna) (Entered: 06/11/2020)

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Notice of Service of Discovery

450

Jun 12, 2020

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Seal Document

Jun 12, 2020

1 - Common Prompts (Text Only) AND Discovery Hearing

452

Jun 12, 2020

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Seal Document

453

Jun 12, 2020

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Sealed Lodged Proposed Document (NEF)

454

Jun 15, 2020

Main Document

Order on Motion to Seal Document AND Order on Motion to Seal Document AND Order on Motion for Protective Order AND Order on Motion to Seal Document AND Order on Motion to Seal Document

455

Jun 15, 2020

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Sealed Document

456

Jun 15, 2020

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Sealed Document

457

Jun 15, 2020

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Sealed Document

458

Jun 16, 2020

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Transcript Request

459

Jun 17, 2020

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Transcript Request

460

Jun 17, 2020

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Order on Motion to Seal Document

461

Jun 17, 2020

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Sealed Document

462

Jun 20, 2020

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Seal Document

463

Jun 20, 2020

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Sealed Lodged Proposed Document (NEF)

464

Jun 25, 2020

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USCA Mandate

465

Jun 26, 2020

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Seal Document

466

Jun 26, 2020

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Sealed Lodged Proposed Document (NEF)

Free Law Project > Announcing A New Open Base of Court Information, IDs and Parsers

Date Tue 10 March 2020

By William E. Palin, Esq., Michael Lissner Tags courts / courts-db / courtlistener / open data / history "Since 2010 when we launched CourtListener, one of our goals has been to build a complete, accurate, and audited collection of open case law.

Today that goal takes a major step forward as we announce a new tool we have built to parse court data.

A critical step in parsing court opinions is knowing which court produced the opinion. Unfortunately, courts change their names over time and so we encounter opinions from the “Supreme Court of Massachusetts”, the “Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts”, and the “Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court”, among others. These are all names for the very same court of last resort in Massachusetts, so we created a tool that recognizes all these varied names.

We call our tool the Free Law Project Courts-DB.

Using Courts-DB, you can easily look up the name of nearly any American court with published cases going back to 1600. We have used this functionality to parse nearly 16 million court names. After doing so, our accuracy at parsing court names stands at 99.998%. (The remaining 0.002% generally requires a human to understand.)

The Numbers

Tested against 16M courts

17,887 lines of code

718 court identifiers

361 court websites

2,100 regular expressions

Check It Out

Courts-DB consists of over 17,000 lines of code and has data about American courts from the 1600s until modern times. Generally, if the court ever had a published case — and often even if it did not — then that court will be available in Courts-DB. This includes special and limited jurisdiction courts, tribal courts, and even a couple of United States Courts of other countries (looking at you United States Court for Berlin).

Courts-DB uses over 2,100 regular expressions to match court names, has over 300 court websites available for lookup, and provides thousands of examples, variations, typos, and other court metadata.

Finally, the DB contains identifiers for all of these courts. Identifiers are an important part of building any software system, and their absence from the legal industry has been an ongoing challenge to innovation and interoperation. Many of our identifiers are already adopted by the SALI Alliance and we hope to soon incorporate the rest into their standards. If you are developing any sort of legal software, we hope you will consider using these identifiers.

Starting now, Courts-DB is available as open code, a python package or as an extremely long JSON file.

For the techies: To give you a quick taste of what the code looks like, here is one entry in the data for “Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court”.

Show the code!

[{
  "regex": [
      "${sjc} Ma(ss(achusetts)?)?(\b|$)?",
      "${ma} ${sjc}",
      "Supreme Court Of ${ma}",
      "State Of ${ma} Supreme Court"
  ],
  "name_abbreviation": "Mass. Sup. Jud. Ct.",
  "dates": [
      {
          "start": "1692-01-01",
          "end": null
      }
  ],
  "name": "Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court",
  "level": "colr",
  "case_types": ["All"],
  "system": "state",
  "examples": [
      "Supreme Court Of Massachusetts",
      "Supreme Judicial Court Of Massachusetts",
      "Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court"
  ],
  "court_url": "http://www.mass.gov/courts/sjc/",
  "type": "appellate",
  "id": "mass",
  "location": "Massachusetts"
}]

Courts-db is part of larger initiatives at Free Law Project to organize and provide free and open access to every US court opinion in history. We encourage and invite users to join, research and test our code. In particular, we are looking for help adding court start and end dates to Courts-DB. If you’re interested in lending a hand, please get in touch.

To learn more about the project, the data and how to use it please visit Courts-db on Github

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Public Information: Laney Sweet, et al. v. City of Mesa, et al.

SOURCE: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6246245/sweet-v-mesa-city-of/

Last Updated: June 26, 2020, 4:39 p.m. MST

Assigned To: Grant Murray Snow

Date Filed: Jan. 17, 2017

Date of Last Known Filing: June 26, 2019

Cause: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other

Jury Demand: Both

Jurisdiction Type: Federal Question

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SOURCE: https://casetext.com/case/sweet-v-city-of-mesa

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA Jun 1, 2018

No. CV-17-00152-PHX-GMS LEAD CASE (D. Ariz. Jun. 1, 2018)

BACKGROUND

On January 18, 2016, Daniel Shaver, a resident of Texas, was visiting Arizona and staying at a La Quinta Inn & Suites in Mesa. Mr. Shaver worked as a pest eradication specialist and was in Arizona on business. Mr. Shaver's job required him to carry pellet rifles and Mr. Shaver kept those in his hotel room to prevent theft. In the evening, Mr. Shaver ordered a pizza to his room and invited two other La Quinta guests, Monique Portillo and Luis Nunez, into his room to socialize.

At some point, a member of the La Quinta hotel staff placed a call to 911, reporting that someone had told staff of an individual pointing a gun out of a hotel window. After receiving the report, Leticia Jimenez, a front desk employee, went outside to determine which hotel room was at issue. Ms. Jimenez was able to identify the room as Mr. Shaver's. Ms. Jimenez went up to Mr. Shaver's room, and saw a Hispanic male with a rifle in his hands. Because Ms. Jimenez was acquainted with Mr. Shaver, she knew that the individual holding the rifle was not Mr. Shaver.

By 9:15 p.m., multiple Mesa Police Department ("MPD") officers arrived at the La Quinta hotel. These officers included the Defendants Philip Brailsford, Charles Langley, Christopher Doane, Richard Gomez, Brian Elmore, and Bryan Cochran. Sergeant Langley was the senior responding officer and was in command of the other officers at the scene. At Sergeant Langley's direction, the MPD team moved up to Mr. Shaver's room. The MPD officers did not speak with La Quinta employees about the situation before doing so.

An MPD officer called Mr. Shaver's room and told the inhabitants to exit the room into the hallway. Mr. Shaver and Ms. Portillo did so immediately (Mr. Nunez had left the room prior to MPD's arrival). After entering the hallway, Sergeant Langley stated "Alright, if you make another mistake, there's a very severe possibility you're both going to get shot." When Mr. Shaver attempted to speak, Sergeant Langley said "This is—shut up. I'm not here to be tactful and diplomatic with you. You listen, you obey." Sergeant Langley then asked Mr. Shaver to place his hands on the back of his head and interlace his fingers. Mr. Shaver did so. Next, Sergeant Langley instructed Mr. Shaver to cross his left foot over his right foot. Mr. Shaver did so. Sergeant Langley told Mr. Shaver "If you move, we're going to consider that a threat and we are going to deal with it and you may not survive it."

The MPD officers worked to take Ms. Portillo into custody. Ms. Portillo had a purse, and was instructed by the officers to leave the purse in the hallway as she crawled towards the officers to be handcuffed. Sergeant Langley told Mr. Shaver to move into a kneeling position. This change in position caused Mr. Shaver to uncross his legs, which resulted in an immediate reaction and instruction from Sergeant Langley that Mr. Shaver was to keep his legs crossed. Mr. Shaver moved to put his hands behind his head, a movement which also elicited a response from Sergeant Langley. In response, Mr. Shaver began crying, asking the officers not to shoot him, and responding to the officers' requests with "yes sir." Sergeant Langley told Mr. Shaver to begin crawling towards the officers, which required Mr. Shaver to crawl over Ms. Portillo's purse. While doing so, Mr. Shaver's athletic shorts began falling down. Mr. Shaver reached backwards towards his pants. At the sight of Mr. Shaver's movement, Officer Brailsford fired five shots from his AR-15. Mr. Shaver died as a result of the shooting. After the shooting, Officer Brailsford was fired from the MPD force and Sergeant Langley took an early retirement from the MPD. Officers Cochran, Doane, Elmore, and Gomez remain employed by MPD.

Mr. Shaver's wife, Laney Sweet, filed an action on behalf of herself, her minor children (E.S. and N.S.), and Mr. Shaver's estate. Mr. Shaver's parents, Grady and Norma Shaver, filed an action on behalf of themselves. Both sets of plaintiffs sued the City of Mesa and the individual officers at the scene of Mr. Shaver's death. The various defendants now move to dismiss portions of both the Sweet and the Shaver complaints.

DISCUSSION

I. Legal Standard

II. Analysis

A. The Sweet Complaint

B. The Shaver Complaint

CONCLUSION

The Court has dismissed various claims against the Defendants that are duplicative, barred by statute, and where the facts in the Complaint fail to state a claim for relief.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Motions to Dismiss of Defendant Langley (Docs. 77, 78), Defendant City of Mesa, Doane, Elmore, Cochran, and Gomez (Docs. 81, 83), and Defendant Brailsford (Docs. 82, 84) are GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART as follows:

1. Count One of the Sweet Complaint REMAINS as to all Defendants. Punitive damages claims are DISMISSED as to Defendants Langley, Brailsford, Cochran, Doane, Elmore, and Gomez.

2. Count Three of the Sweet Complaint REMAINS as to Defendant City of Mesa (in its official capacity) and Defendants Langley, Brailsford, Doane, Cochran, Elmore, and Gomez (in their individual capacities).

3. Count Four of the Sweet Complaint is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.

4. Count Five of the Sweet Complaint is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.

5. Count Six of the Sweet Complaint REMAINS as to all Defendants for claims by Laney Sweet, E.S., and N.S. Count Six of the Sweet Complaint is DISMISSED as to Defendants City of Mesa, Elmore, Doane, Cochran, Gomez, Langley and Brailsford for claims by the Estate of Daniel Shaver.

6. Count Seven of the Sweet Complaint is DISMISSED as to all Defendants.

7. Count Eight of the Sweet Complaint is DISMISSED as to all Defendants.

8. Count One of the Shaver Complaint is DISMISSED as to Defendants, Cochran, Doane, Elmore, and Gomez. Count One of the Shaver Complaint REMAINS as to Defendants City of Mesa, Langley, and Brailsford.

9. Count Two of the Shaver Complaint is DISMISSED as to Defendants Langley, Brailsford, Cochran, Doane, Elmore, and Gomez in their official capacity. Count Two of the Shaver Complaint REMAINS as to Defendant City of Mesa.

10. Count Three of the Shaver Complaint REMAINS as to Defendants Langley, Brailsford, Cochran, Doane, Elmore, and Gomez.

Dated this 1st day of June, 2018.

/s/_________

Honorable G. Murray Snow

United States District Judge

Saturday, June 27, 2020

01 July 2020: A Day of Reckoning For The Miscarriage of Justice Here In Mesa More Than 4 Years Ago

The Mesa City Council will go "behind doors" on a Virtual Platform format  into a closed-to-the-public meeting via Zoom
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Convene an Executive Session. ES-002-20
Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (3)) Discussion or consultation with the City Attorney in order to consider the City’s position and instruct the City Attorney regarding the City’s position regarding pending or contemplated litigation or in settlement discussions conducted in order to avoid or resolve litigation.
(A.R.S. §38-431.03A(4))
Laney Sweet, et al. v. City of Mesa, et al.
United States District Court, Case No. CV-17-00152-GMS
It's Item 5-a
ES-002-20 Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (3)) Discussion or consultation with the City Attorney in order to consider the City’s position and instruct the City Attorney regarding the City’s position regarding pending or contemplated litigation or in settlement discussions conducted in order to avoid or resolve litigation. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A(4))
1. Laney Sweet, et al. v. City of Mesa, et al.
United States District Court, Case No. CV-17-00152-GMS
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It took a while -
Shaver was fatally shot on January 18, 2016 at about 9 p.m.
Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, 25, was charged with murder on March 4 in the shooting death of Daniel Shaver, a 26-year-old husband and father of two from Texas
INSERT FROM AN EARLIER POST ON THIS BLOG: 09 March 2018
Justice Delayed Is Not Justice Denied: Mesa Police Case

Two years and two months ago, the killing of Daniel Shaver in an office-involved shooting incident here in Mesa in January 2016 that some media reports called "an execution" took a long a long time to get anything more than mild interest or scant attention here in local news reporting until questions were raised in the case of Police Office Philip Brailsford actions in the six-office response to a 911 call from a couple outside in the pool at a hotel reporting seeing a gun pointing out a window.
As it turned out a frequent overnight patron in one of the hotel rooms was a playing with a pellet gun used by traveling contractor Daniel Shaver to scare-off birds at a bigbox retail store. There were months of delays in any more details forthcoming with the Mesa PD refusing to release an unedited bodycam video.

Questions about excessive and deadly use-of-force by one officer, gunning down Daniel Shaver while he was crawling in the hallway begging not to get shot and killed, were evident after the unedited video was released more than a year after the Mesa PD withheld it from the public for almost two years.

There were at least 10 posts on this blog that readers can find here including this one from 08 Dec 2017
Reactions To Daniel Shaver Killing | The Verdict: Ex-Officer Not Guilty[see below]

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National and international reactions and coverage worldwide from news sources are reacting: Mesa Police Department has released the full body camera video showing ex-Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford fatally shooting 26-year-old Daniel Shaver
at an Arizona motel in January 2016.
It was posted online by the attorney for Shaver’s wife, Laney Sweet, who is suing the Mesa Police Department for $75 million and had been fighting for the release of the video.
Brailsford shot Shaver with a personal AR-15 rifle, which he was allowed to use, according to police reports.

A photo released by the Mesa Police Department last year showed that Brailsford had the inscription, “You’re f*cked” on his rifle.
You can watch the video below. The shooting occurs just after the 16-minute mark of the video.

Link >
http://heavy.com/news/2017/12/daniel-shaver-philip-brailsford-mesa-police-shooting-video-full/
WATCH: Daniel Shaver Police Shooting Video Released

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These are four reporters from news alerts yesterday

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Shaver Begged ‘Please Don’t Shoot Me’ Before He Was Killed, a Witness Says

2. Brailsford Was One of the Department’s First Officers to Wear a Body Camera – But the Footage From the Shooting Hasn’t Been Released

Brailsford was one of the first Mesa Police officers to be given a body camera, which he received as a rookie in 2013.

3.’You’re F*cked’ Was Inscribed Onto the Gun Brailsford Used in the Shooting, Which Was a Violation of Policy

Brailsford shot Shaver with a personal AR-15 rifle, which he was allowed to use, according to police reports.

The gun was inscribed with the phrase “you’re f*cked,” Tucson News Now reports.
The inscription on the gun was a violation of department policy, which was one of the reasons Brailsford was fired.

4. His Father Was a Lieutenant in the Mesa PD’s Internal Affairs Unit

Brailsford’s father, also named Philip Brailsford, left the Mesa Police Department last year to join a local law firm.
He was a lieutenant and had worked in the department’s Internal Affairs Unit.

According to a press release from the law firm where he now works, Fennemore Craig, the elder Brailsford was a police officer for 19 years, and also served in Afghanistan as a member of the U.S. Army.

He graduated from Arizona State’s law school

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Here's another report from 3 reporters

Mesa officers rarely disciplined in excessive-force investigations, police data show

Uriel J. Garcia, Lily Altavena and Agnel Philip,

LINK >Arizona Republic Published 6:00 a.m. MT Nov. 13, 2018

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PLEASE TAKE THE TIME SEE TO THIS VIDEO -

Be warned it is shocking to see.

Full video of Daniel Shaver shooting

Published on Dec 15, 2017

Comments: 116

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Brailsford was at least fired from his job as a police officer.
But that isn’t how the story ends. . .
RELATED CONTENT From 2017 that includes police reports and other records
Philip ‘Mitch’ Brailsford: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Knowby Tom Cleary in Heavy.com

UPDATE: Former Mesa, Arizona, police officer Philip Brailsford was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter on December 8, 2017, in the shooting of 26-year-old Daniel Shaver, of Texas, who was killed at a motel in January 2016.

Body camera footage of the shooting has been released.

You can watch the video and read about the latest updates in the case here.

You can read the original report below:

" A former Mesa, Arizona, police officer has been charged with second-degree murder in the January 2016 shooting death of an unarmed man.

Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, 25, was charged with murder on March 4 in the shooting death of Daniel Shaver, a 26-year-old husband and father of two from Texas, KNXV-TV reports.

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Philip Brailsford:
How the Police State
Made a Mormon Missionary a Cold-Blooded Killer

"Philip Brailsford went from spreading love in the Mormon church to gunning down an unarmed innocent father of two for no reason. . ."

What happened?

The Free Thought Project has been given photos and background on Philip Brailsford—the cop acquitted for murdering an unarmed innocent father of two—which paint a much different picture than a cold-blooded killer

Before Brailsford embarked on a career that would come to an end after he shot Daniel Shaver five times with his AR-15—enscribed with the words, “You’re Fucked”—he would devote years of his life to helping others.

In 2010, Brailsford, like many of the Mormon missionaries before him, would travel to Ecuador to help people and to spread his faith

> Brailsford became a rookie cop in 2013. . .
While TFTP will not pretend to have psychoanalyzed Philip Brailsford, this is not necessary to grasp the alarming trend among police that has been increasing over time.
"Policing in the United States metamorphosed drastically over the last few decades after the NDAA in 1990 allowed departments to obtain surplus military equipment free of charge. With the weapons and gear of war likewise came the warrior ethos. Though unprepared to handle accouterments of the battlefield, hapless American police waged war on the very communities in their charge — an epidemic level of violence by law enforcement has since erupted. . . "

Plain and simple, police are being trained to see the people they serve as the enemy
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From this blog site on July 11, 2019

11 July 2019

OUTRAGEOUS: Just "Another Deal" from City Manager Chris Brady

Time to Wake-Up Mesa!

Evidence is piling-up big time

After murder acquittal, Mesa ex-cop Philip Brailsford made a pension deal
Posted: 6:39 PM, Jul 10, 2019

"Two years after he shot an unarmed man and was fired, former police officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford was rehired by the City of Mesa in order to obtain a special pension. Now, Brailsford is considered medically retired, not fired, according to a Mesa city spokesman. . .
^ The Spokesman: City Manager Chris Brady

READ and see video from another local news source > https://mesazona.blogspot.com/2019/07

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From The Atlantic :

"Two years ago, I wrote about Daniel Shaver, an unarmed 26-year-old who in 2016 was shot to death in a hotel hallway while begging for his life.

> The killer, Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford, was put on trial for murder.

> Jurors were not allowed to know that he had scratched “You’re fucked” into his service weapon.

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"He was acquitted of murder and manslaughter, despite video of as chilling and egregious a police killing as I’ve ever seen. . . "

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Virtual Platform Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Roll Call
1 Review and discuss items on the agendas for the July 1 and July 8 regular Council meetings.
2 Presentations/Action Items:
20-0698 Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the proposed Audit Plan for FY 2020/21. 2-a
3 Current events summary including meetings and conferences attended.
4 Scheduling of meetings.
5 Convene an Executive Session. ES-002-20
Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (3))
Discussion or consultation with the City Attorney in order to consider the City’s position and instruct the City Attorney regarding the City’s position regarding pending or contemplated litigation or in settlement discussions conducted in order to avoid or resolve litigation.
(A.R.S. §38-431.03A(4))
1. Laney Sweet, et al. v. City of Mesa, et al.
United States District Court, Case No. CV-17-00152-GMS
5-a
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6 Adjournment.¹

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¹ Prior to adjournment, at this Council meeting, the City Council may vote to go into executive session for legal advice on any item listed on this agenda pursuant to A.R.S. §38-431.03(A)(3); this notice is given pursuant to A.R.S. §38-431.02 to the members of the City Council and the public.
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