PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio are telling a federal judge that a group of Latinos failed to prove he and his deputies engaged in unconstitutional racial profiling.
The lawyers filed written closing arguments Thursday afternoon in a civil suit brought by a small group of Latino drivers who accused Arpaio's department of basing some traffic stops on the race of Hispanics.
The plaintiffs are also supposed to file their written arguments Thursday, but they were not yet available late in the afternoon.
A seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge Murray Snow ended Aug. 2. Snow will decide the case after reviewing the closing arguments and responses.
Arpaio attorney Tim Casey wrote that the plaintiffs didn't prove Arpaio or his deputies made any stops based on discriminatory intent.
VofReason posted at 1:17 pm on Thu, Aug 9, 2012.
How will that line of questioning go? Prosecutor: "Sheriff Arpaio. Do you admit to going into neighborhoods where all advertising is in Spanish and questioning people caught in the act of another infraction about their citizenship status when they cannot speak English and cannot produce any identification?”. Sheriff Arpaio: “Uh, yes”. Prosecutor: "Do you also admit to the fact that you did not ask the citizenship status of people detained that did speak English and could indeed produce valid ID”. Sheriff Arpaio: “Uh, yes”.
Engaged Voter posted at 3:58 pm on Thu, Aug 9, 2012.
VofReason - Actually, they WILL ask your citizenship status, even if you speak English and have valid ID. They did with me and my family at a "border" checkpoint (the checkpoint was nowhere near the border).
Yes I know, BP is not MCSO.
Juggernaut8000 posted at 5:35 pm on Thu, Aug 9, 2012.
The latino's who are bitching in this case should make their statement this: We want all of our illegal brethren to spew across the porous border with mexico and MCSO is impeding their progress. They can get free medical care, education and are immune to any responsibility while here.
Keep up the good work Joe, you will always have the vote of hard working Americans who are against the onslaught of ILLEGAL invaders in this counrty.
samkat posted at 8:08 pm on Thu, Aug 9, 2012.
VOR: We would not have the problem if the Hispanics and their far left liberal leaning gringos would not shield the illegals. By the way, there are illegals other than Hispanics but that fact seems to elude the illegal Hispanic supporters.
Juggernaut: I am with you.