A federal judge says Maricopa County sheriff's deputies violated the rights of two men who were detained during an identity-theft investigation at a landscaping company.
U.S. District Judge David Campbell ruled Monday that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies had no reason to stop Julian and Julio Mora in February 2009 or detain them for nearly three hours.
According to Campbell's ruling, the deputies only detained the Hispanic men because Julian Mora told them he worked at the business deputies were searching. The judge says that's not a good enough reason.
Tim Casey, an attorney representing the sheriff's office, tells The Arizona Republic that officials weren't able to determine the identity of the deputies who stopped the Moras, so the judge was left to rule on the Moras' version of events.
Juggernaut5000 posted at 2:19 pm on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
Wg, I couldn't agree with you more. Phil Gordon is an absolute fool and has harmed this fair state greatly with his pro-illegal (criminal's for all you bleeding heart liberals) rhetoric. He needs to be relieved of his position for dereliction and aid and bedding a criminal.
wgauthority posted at 11:11 am on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
Let's see, according to this federally appointed messiah, if you walk like a duck, quack like a duck, have feathers like a duck and are swimming with a WHOLE bunch of other ducks, you are OBVIOUSLY an ardvaark. I now nominate Phool Gordon for judge, on the grounds he couldn't do a worse job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MINE THE BORDER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NothingButTheTruth posted at 11:01 am on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
hillstreet, you are a racist, and I hear you try to pretend to be a cop somewhere. Apparently that couldn't be true since you don't seem to know what probably cause is. The deputies had every right to question the two suspects and this judge will be overturned. Landscaping? I thought they only did jobs Americans wont do, right Jeni84? So what were those two Americans doing there working as landscapers?
"...officials weren't able to determine the identity of the deputies who stopped the Moras, so the judge was left to rule on the Moras' version of events." Really? He made this decision based on the Moras version? How progressively socialista of him. I'm betting they didn't have valid identification on them.
jeni84 posted at 10:37 am on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
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jeni84 posted at 10:35 am on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
Juggernaut5000: The two men are here "legally". The son was born here and the father is a legal permanent resident. Those facts were included in another article about thes issue. I imagine they only questioned the people who looked suspicious, (brown, wearing landscaping uniforms, hispanic looking). I'm sure the people working in the offices behind the desks, dressed like "Americans" were not questioned because of course, "illegals" are only capable of landscaping and housekeeping jobs right Juggernaut5000. [beam]
Juggernaut5000 posted at 10:08 am on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
How in the hell did this judge figure they didn't have a right to stop them? The deputies were investigating a fraud at the company they were working at. This will get overturned because they had reasonable suspicion to talk to the men. On another note, I bet they were here illegally and hope their sorry asses get deported with that traitor hillstreet.
mrfixer123 posted at 8:28 am on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
The Californiazation of Arizona continues. Glad I don't live there anymore.
hillstreet posted at 8:16 am on Tue, Apr 26, 2011.
Actually, the headline should say "illegally" and not "improperly." Excellent decision by the federal judge. As much as Arpaio and the other racists would like it to be so, Driving While Brown is not against the law in Arizone....yet.