Fire and prosecute the three cops that beat Jordan Miles—Officers Michael Saldutte, David Sisak and Richard Ewing
Chris Young, City Paper—It’s been two years since Jordan Miles confronted three undercover Pittsburgh police officers on a cold winter night in Homewood. But what happened during the former CAPA student’s high-profile beating arrest on Jan. 12, 2010, is still a mystery.
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Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—An expert hired by Jordan Miles’ legal team in his federal civil rights suit against the city of Pittsburgh says three plainclothes police officers had no reason to stop Mr. Miles on a Homewood street last year and used too much force in subduing him during an arrest.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review—A Homewood man`s claim that three city polices officers violated his civil rights during a 2010 arrest near his home is scheduled to be heard by a federal jury in July.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—The civil case filed by Jordan Miles against the city of Pittsburgh isn’t weighty enough to warrant the breaching of the traditional secrecy of federal grand jury proceedings, U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster ruled Tuesday.
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Brian Bowling, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review—Attorneys for Pittsburgh and a Homewood man suing the city for police brutality must conduct their own investigations to prepare for trial instead of cribbing notes from a federal grand jury investigation of the incident at the heart of the lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster ruled late Tuesday that the city of Pittsburgh and the legal team for Jordan Miles can’t have access to secret grand jury testimony.
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Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—The city of Pittsburgh and attorneys for Jordan Miles will be permitted to view some records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into police handling of his January 2010 arrest.
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Brian Bowling, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review—A federal judge should deny Pittsburgh’s request for federal grand jury testimony in the Jordan Miles investigation because the attorneys in the civil lawsuit between Miles and the city need to do their own work, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a court document filed Tuesday.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review—The family of Jordan Miles will not accept Pittsburgh’s new settlement offer, which is basically the former offer of $180,000 plus the addition of attorney fees, Miles’ attorney J. Kerrington Lewis said.
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