Saturday, September 13, 2014. Wallach on Law, Fire & Gasoline, Part II — When The Mentally Ill Meet Police – The Need For CIT Training. Featuring Ret. Maj. C. Samuel Cochran, Dameion Perkins, Nathanial Hamilton, and Maria Hamilton.
In the wake of the shootings of Ezell Ford and Dontre Hamilton, we look for answers as to how to train officers to identify and respond to the needs of those challenged by Mental Illness. We speak with Ret. Maj. C. Samuel Cochran of the University of Memphis Crisis Intervention Team program about how officers can...
Saturday, September 13, 2014. Wallach on Law, Fire & Gasoline, Part II — When The Mentally Ill Meet Police – The Need For CIT Training. Featuring Ret. Maj. C. Samuel Cochran, Dameion Perkins, Nathanial Hamilton, and Maria Hamilton. Continue reading…
Saturday, September 6, 2014. Wallach on Law, Fire & Gasoline –When the Mentally Ill Meet Police. Featuring Ron Honberg of NAMI (the National Alliance For Mental Illness).
Officer-Involved Fatalities & Shootings on the mentally ill are becoming commonplace. In August, Ezell Ford was killed by two Los Angeles County Police Department officers, who stopped him because he was acting strange, and when a struggle ensued, killed him when they believed he was reaching for their weapons. Three months earlier, in Detroit, Dontre Hamilton was lawfully sleeping in a public park and had...
Saturday, September 6, 2014. Wallach on Law, Fire & Gasoline –When the Mentally Ill Meet Police. Featuring Ron Honberg of NAMI (the National Alliance For Mental Illness). Continue reading…
Saturday, August 30, 2014. Wallach on Law — Gun Legislation & Officer Training — Featuring California Assembly Member Das Williams, And Gun Rights Activist Sheriff Richard Mack (“Sheriff Mack”).
Gun regulation is potentially the most partisan and divisive issue in the U.S. Some believe that any form of gun regulation in unlawful. Others don’t believe the Second Amendment provides a right to possess a gun free from regulation. And others are more concerned with the present – determining that, in the wake of...
Saturday, August 30, 2014. Wallach on Law — Gun Legislation & Officer Training — Featuring California Assembly Member Das Williams, And Gun Rights Activist Sheriff Richard Mack (“Sheriff Mack”). Continue reading…
Saturday, August 23, 2014. Wallach on Law – The Road Back — Featuring Karen Wolff, Social Worker with the Innocence Project and Harold Hall, who was released after 14 years when the 9th Circuit reversed his conviction.
On Wallach on Law, we discuss the problems facing those released from jail after prolonged periods – whether incarcerated justly or unjustly. We speak with Karen Wolff, a social worker with the Innocence Project, about the work of Innocence Projects worldwide, and the tools that are needed to help those who have been in...
Saturday, August 23, 2014. Wallach on Law – The Road Back — Featuring Karen Wolff, Social Worker with the Innocence Project and Harold Hall, who was released after 14 years when the 9th Circuit reversed his conviction. Continue reading…
Wednesday, August 20, 2014. District Court Allows Claims, Including Race-Based Claims, To Proceed In Class Action Filed on Behalf of Black and Elderly Inmates Infected by Valley Fever Due to Incarceration at Pleasant Valley and Avenal Prisons.
United States District Judge Lawrence O’Neill denied a motion brought by Defendants Gov. Brown, Matthew Cate, and other Cal. Dep’t. of Corrections officials to dismiss 8th amendment claims, and race-based claims asserting violation of equal protection asserted by inmates of African descent. The Amended Complaint alleges that the defendants knew, or should have known,...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014. District Court Allows Claims, Including Race-Based Claims, To Proceed In Class Action Filed on Behalf of Black and Elderly Inmates Infected by Valley Fever Due to Incarceration at Pleasant Valley and Avenal Prisons. Continue reading…
Sunday, August 17, 2014. Wallach on Law Featuring Jane Velez Mitchell and Dale Baich – Life and/or Death in Arizona – the Jody Arias Trial and the Process of Lethal Injection.
Ian Wallach welcomes Jane Velez Mitchell, the host of the Jane Velez Mitchell show airing daily on HLN. She is a frequent contributor to CNN, an award-winning journalist, and author of the New York Times bestseller, “Exposed, The Secret Life of Jody Arias.” And to better understand the implementation of the death penalty in...
Sunday, August 17, 2014. Wallach on Law Featuring Jane Velez Mitchell and Dale Baich – Life and/or Death in Arizona – the Jody Arias Trial and the Process of Lethal Injection. Continue reading…
Thursday, May 8, 2014. Press covers Ian Wallach’s retention in Red Arrow Park shooting of Dontre Hamilton.
Dontre Hamilton was sleeping in a public public park in front of City Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Starbucks’ employees called the police, who interviewed Mr. Hamilton, determined that he was not a threat and had a lawful right to be present, and left. Minutes later, a foot patrol officer came to the park, awoke...
Thursday, May 8, 2014. Press covers Ian Wallach’s retention in Red Arrow Park shooting of Dontre Hamilton. Continue reading…
Dontre Hamilton Case
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 — Ian Wallach retained as civil rights lawyer to family of Dontre Hamilton, victim killed in Milwaukee’s Red Arrow Park shooting.
Monday, March 17, 2014 — Los Angeles, CA. Acquittal in 2-Strike Trial.
Our client was accused of attempting to break into a building, of threatening the tenants, and of dissuading them from calling the police. The client was charged with violations of Penal Code Sections 136.1 and 422, both of which are strikes, and a misdemeanor charge of breaking a window. The client was acquitted on...
Monday, March 17, 2014 — Los Angeles, CA. Acquittal in 2-Strike Trial. Continue reading…
Friday, December 27, 2013, Attempted Armed Robbery Case Dismissed On Day Of Trial : Compton Courthouse
Ian Wallach’s client faced 21 years of potential incarceration. Certain exculpatory evidence (including a recorded statement from the victim identifying the armed assailant in clothes worn by someone else that was arrested with the client but not charged) was produced extremely late (three court days prior to trial). The client’s version of events was...
Friday, December 27, 2013, Attempted Armed Robbery Case Dismissed On Day Of Trial : Compton Courthouse Continue reading…