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This is the direction the Carl Foster case is headed and there are some striking similarities between these two cases. Just like Foster’s case, an internal investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the officer despite serious injuries to the citizen.
Despite the nature of Marquez’s injuries, which included a broken jaw […]

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Carl Foster, whose neck was broken when Coquille police officers arrested him for damaging a windshield, has been back in the hospital for almost a month but is expected to be released soon. Foster’s daughter, Kaycee Faught, is looking for a care home closer to where she is living and going to school in […]

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From Rawstory here is video relating to another egregious case of police excess. Once again the heavily armed, armored and unapologetic civil servants get away with taking the life of a member of the public.

As I have said before regarding the Carl Foster case, a scared cop is a dangerous cop. Racial and […]

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A citizen review board in Eugene found that a police officer caused unnecessary harm to a member of the public.
The five-member advisory board reviews closed investigations of allegations against Eugene police employees. Although it has no power to change the outcome of an investigation, it serves as the public voice of the city’s new police […]

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Carl Foster has stabilized enough now to move to a rehabilitation facility in Portland. Kaycee Faught, his daughter, is living nearby.
Nancy Keller, has decided to help raise awareness of Foster and his family. Personally, I found her flippant, dismissive and prejudicial commentary in her letter to the editor regarding Foster to be thoughtless […]

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The halo immobilizing Carl Foster’s neck after surgery to stabilize damage caused by two Coquille police officers during a January 12, 2008 incident has been removed. Kaycee Faught confirms that Foster is rid of the cumbersome hardware and now has a neck support. Lately he has been sitting up in a chair, hospital staff […]

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Interim District Attorney Paul Frasier has revealed that some laws are less important to him than others. Frasier has apparently declined to prosecute the owners of horses starved to death for animal cruelty and he will not prosecute two Coquille police officers for breaking a suspects neck.
He will, however, prosecute a sixteen […]

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A civil jury didn’t believe the findings of an internal police investigation and awarded a shooting victim $2.4M in damages. There are striking similarities in this case to the Foster case
…the jury award sent a strong message.
“This jury really spoke clearly,” Blair said. “They are tired of young men in our community being shot, […]

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This is the difference between a DA in Fresno and the DA in Coos County, 1200 pages of testimony and five days for hitting people with a nightstick. Compare that to two days and many potential witnesses uncalled in the case presented by DA Paul Frasier regarding breaking the neck of Carl Foster.
Family and […]

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Congress has been refusing to do its job for quite some time also and Mukasey’s decision not to pursue contempt charges against White House staff as riled some feathers.
As promised, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she has given the Judiciary Committee authority to file a lawsuit against Bolten and Miers in federal court.
“The House […]

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What a whirlwind tour I have had these last two days traveling from the southern border of Oregon all the way to the top and back again. Managed a stop at the Roseburg VA Hospital to visit my son and learned much more about the program and the extent of the physiological damage caused […]

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I have received a copy of the press release from the DA’s office and I understand The Sentinel has published the entire thing but I will not have time to review it here for a couple of days. Hopefully, schedule permitting, I will see Kaycee Faught and be able to go over what was […]

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There is a very insightful and thoughtful post up at Dian’s blog from a read who contacted her regarding the grand jury findings. In particular I want to call attention to the obvious issue of what information was actually presented to the grand jury by the DA.
It was once said that a prosecutor could […]

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The World is reporting on the grand jury finding and the comments are overwhelmingly against the findings. DA Fraser in his press release makes the following statements
“My review reveals that there was sufficient probable cause to believe that Mr. Foster committed the crime of criminal mischief in the second degree for his act of […]

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Not a surprize to Kaycee Faught or her attorneys but the grand jury voted six to one not to indict the two Coquille police officers that caused the broken neck of Carl Foster during an arrest. After speaking with Kaycee today she is understandably disappointed but is nevertheless confident that her father will receive […]

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