Post by pavel on Mar 18, 2016 0:42:15 GMT -6
A federal judge on Thursday ordered attorneys for the Texas Department of Public Safety to present a better reason than they had previously offered to keep a civil rights lawsuit filed by the mother of Sandra Bland from moving forward.
U.S. Judge David Hittner's told state attorneys they have 14 days to come up with more relevant case law to support their request on behalf of their client, Brian Encinia, the former DPS trooper who arrested Bland on July 10 following a traffic stop. Bland was found hanged three days later in the Waller County Jail.
Encinia is one of several defendants in the civil rights lawsuit which was filed last year by Bland's mother Geneva Reed-Veal. After he was indicted Jan. 6 on a misdemeanor charge that he lied in his police report, lawyers with the Texas Attorney General's office asked Hittner to halt the suit until after the former trooper's criminal proceedings are completed.
The Texas Attorney General's office, which represents DPS argued that Encina would not get a fair trial if the lawsuit, which names him and more than a dozen other defendants, is allowed to proceed.
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/03/17/dps-must-have-better-reason-delay-bland-lawsuit/
U.S. Judge David Hittner's told state attorneys they have 14 days to come up with more relevant case law to support their request on behalf of their client, Brian Encinia, the former DPS trooper who arrested Bland on July 10 following a traffic stop. Bland was found hanged three days later in the Waller County Jail.
Encinia is one of several defendants in the civil rights lawsuit which was filed last year by Bland's mother Geneva Reed-Veal. After he was indicted Jan. 6 on a misdemeanor charge that he lied in his police report, lawyers with the Texas Attorney General's office asked Hittner to halt the suit until after the former trooper's criminal proceedings are completed.
The Texas Attorney General's office, which represents DPS argued that Encina would not get a fair trial if the lawsuit, which names him and more than a dozen other defendants, is allowed to proceed.
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/03/17/dps-must-have-better-reason-delay-bland-lawsuit/