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Police Excessive Force Attorneys

Police excessive force occurs when law enforcement officers use unreasonable or unnecessary force against a person, or use force for an improper purpose beyond their lawful authority. Excessive force is a type of police misconduct. Police excessive force violates people’s constitutional rights, and can result in serious injuries or death.

Excessive force can arise from officers’ use of unreasonable or unnecessary force, including with police weapons (batons, Tasers, ‘less-lethal’ munitions, dogs, pepper spray, and others), tactics (fighting, control holds, handcuffing, prone restraint, pursuits, etc.), and of course, gunshots.

Excessive force is a major problem, and is seen more often now due to the prevalence of police body cameras, surveillance video cameras, and cell phone videos. But the excessive force lawyers at Haddad & Sherwin LLP do not need video to win their excessive force cases. We have been winning excessive force cases for decades.

The excessive force attorneys at Haddad & Sherwin LLP are leaders in this field, representing numerous victims (even other law enforcement officers who have been injured by police misconduct), and teaching the next generation of civil rights attorneys around the country.

Our society gives law enforcement officers awesome powers to restrict liberty, use force, and even take life in certain circumstances. We honor those law enforcement officers who serve our community with fairness and professionalism. We will also continue to hold accountable those officers who abuse their power to use excessive force or injure others unlawfully.

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Contact us today to get a free consultation with an experienced, Oakland-based excessive force attorney. We handle cases throughout Northern and Central California, from the Bay Area to Monterey to Fresno to Sacramento to Lake Tahoe to Redding to Yreka to Crescent City to Eureka to Santa Rosa, San Francisco, San Jose, Alameda County, and more! View all areas served >

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    • $12.75 Million for Distraught Inmate’s Slow-Motion Suicide

      In the largest settlement ever against Wellpath, a national for-profit correctional care company, Haddad & Sherwin LLP won a $12.75 million settlement for Katherine Johnson, the sister of Randall Johnson who died in the Shasta County Jail in 2018.  Wellpath agreed to pay $11.1 million towards the settlement, only five days before trial against them

    • $11.5 Million for Inmate Rendered Quadriplegic

      In a groundbreaking case against Stanislaus County and its private, for-profit jail medical provider, Haddad & Sherwin LLP obtained an $11.5 million settlement for a former inmate who walked into the jail able-bodied, and was carried out on a stretcher — paralyzed from the neck down. Our client, who wishes his name to remain private,

    • $8.3 Million for Jail Death — Largest Wrongful Death Civil Rights Settlement in California State History

      After over four years of litigation and finishing the first week of a 10 week trial, Alameda County and Corizon Health, Inc., a national for-profit jail health care corporation, have ended a wrongful death civil rights case by agreeing to pay $8.3 mi...

    • $7.3 Million Settlement for Police Choke Hold Killing

      This local case involved Pittsburg police officers’ use of a carotid hold and choke hold, and other highly injurious force, on video, while Beto Martinez can be heard saying, “I can’t breathe!” much like the more publicized cases of George Floyd and Eric Garner. On the afternoon of July 26, 2016, City of Pittsburg, California,

    • $7 Million for Sacramento Freeway Shooting

      Justice has prevailed in another case of an unjustified police shooting. Civil rights firm Haddad & Sherwin LLP have won a settlement of $7 million for their client, the mother of Daniel Shaham (31), against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and then-Officer Paul Shadwell. This remains one of the largest settlements in CHP history and

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