"It was frustrating," he says. "It seems like deputies can do whatever they want."
Earlier this year, Smith hired Newport Beach attorney Joshua R. Stock to file a federal lawsuit. According to Stock, the deputies are guilty of making a false arrest and violating his client's constitutional rights. The county responded by hiring a private law firm, which maintained in a court filing that the deputies' actions were "in all respects reasonable, proper and legal."
According to records, Caballero recently used Smith's identity in a San Francisco-area crime. He remains at large. Incredibly, more than 750 days after Hix cleared Smith of Caballero's acts, the sheriff's department continues to list him as the fugitive.
Asks a soft-spoken Smith, "When will this end?"
A jury trial for Smith's lawsuit is scheduled for April 2012.
This column appeared in print as "This Isn't the Man You're Looking For: Chris Adrian Smith has a court order declaring he isnot wanted for a specific crime. Deputies arrested him for it anyway."
DUHHHHH !!! Cops DO think they can do whatever they want, just because they are cops. They are the most crooked of the crooked(ist). And they usually get away with it too. I can't believe that this would still be news to anyone. It's so rampant now-a-days, its "old news".
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We rescue and care for a strayed animals on street. Kelly Thomas is only another drifter in Orange County, one less sore eyes to see in Fullerton. There was not reason to continue to beat a man's head into concrete, smash his face and skull with steel flashlight, hog tie him, taser, etc to death. In Orange County, similar incidents are almost never prosecuted. It takes a video, a death, and large scale media coverage to get any justice at all.
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Never mess around with Orange County Sheriffs..They are Untouchable, Invincible, and protect by the powerful police union and justice system.
Orange County Deputies Gil Torres and Virgil Asuncion should not be the targets of witch-hunting predators from the public, or the media, who seem to blame them for all of the world's injustices. These deputies did exactly what is expected of them: execute an arrest warrant and bring in an alleged fugitive. Yes, it's sad that an innocent person was caught up in a situation that neither he, nor the deputies, caused. The problem was sourced much higher up in our judicial system, not at the street-cop level. Criticism of the upper echelons of our judicial system is warranted in this case, but the deputies should be off limits. After all, Deputies Torres and Asuncion did not prepare the arrest warrant. They merely carried out its orders. In my opinion, they are good cops who deserve better than the unwarranted public whipping that is so commonplace to second rate "dirty" journalists and ultra right and left wing fanatical extremists.
As far as the falsely arrested Chris Smith, he and his attorney should take the high road in this matter and accept a fair remuneration of $3,000 from the County. They should not hold the taxpayers hostage in expectation of a multi-million dollar instant lottery jury award. To do so would make Smith and his lawyer no better than the haughty and cavalier county administrators who recklessly spawned this problem.
Jim Gilchrist, President, The Minuteman Project
Jim, I'm sorry, but you're an idiot. I truly hope this happens to you; it couldn't happen to a better idiot. He HAD a valid court order which they just dismissed. Go catch some illegals.
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"According to Stock, the deputies are guilty of making a false arrest and violating his client's constitutional rights."
You have no constitutional rights according to the OCSD.
This is a fucking travesty! Orange County Deputies are out of control whether it be in OC Jail or on the streets. To recklessly disregard a County Judge's order is bad enough but to ignore repeated pleas and requests to merely examine the order itself borders on intentional Felony False Imprisonment as well as cruel and unusual punishment, thereby violating Chris Smith's Constitutional rights. Where is the Sheriff on all of this. Why aren't these illiterate boneheads up on charges of misconduct? If the treatment of this man is indicative of the way that County deputies treat the accused they arrest then it is very appropriate that they wore black when they arrested him. It brings to mind another police force that dressed in black and cared little for the rights of the accused. These Deputies should at the least be suspended and at the worst be charged with the aforementioned false imprisonment and violation of Smith's Constitutional Rights, as should the Deputies at the Jail. It might be wise in future, when hiring deputies to make sure that they understand the 4th and 8th amendments and read FUCKING ENGLISH! If someone can be arrested for a crime that they didn't commit AND have an order from a Judge stating that they are not to be arrested for that crime then who among us is safe?An action like this, taken by supposedly trained Deputy Sheriffs, is an affront to every citizen in the County and the Nation! These Deputies are loose cannons and are a danger to the people at large and should be punished harshly in order to restore the faith that is seemingly no longer deserved in their ability to enforce the laws of the land. I am a member of the OCEA and if the Union comes to their aid in this affair it will only serve to prove that the people are powerless in the face of blatant abuse by the authorities that we elect to protect us. If that is the case, what can we do and where can we go for redress?
The cops in the OC are total morons. I am originally from NY and was once skating with a friend of mine about a block from my house when a OC Sheriff pulls over to have a "talk" with us. The first thing he asks, where do you live and why are you skating here? Fine, no problem fair enough questions, I am a 35 yr old skater, so I guess that could deserve some questions.
Then he asks if either of us have any warrants?! Wait? Seriously? If I had any do you actually think I am going to fess up and tell you? Are the people in the OC that honest? LOL, I somehow don't think so... He didn't even ask for id. This is particularly funny to me because the cops in NY will just throw your ass in the squad car for skating right away and then get your id and then check your priors, after incarceration. YOU CAN'T GET AWAY!
Why am I not surprised by this story in the slightest?
I guess it's hard to be when there are still idiots in OC that try to out run the cops on the 405 or 5 freeways. THEY ONLY GO TWO WAYS AND NORMALLY THERE IS TRAFFIC!!! You aren't getting into Mexico and you sure as hell aren't getting anywhere else on the freeways.
Wait am I seeing a pattern forming? I do hear that this state out west called California has some of the worst schools in the country, I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Or is it all of the drug addicts and alcoholics coming to the OC for rehab?
Mmmm. Might be on to something. Is that guy in Riverside still trying to get SoCal broken off from NoCal, because that seems like a damn fine idea. Let all of the militant, god fearing folk stay in SoCal and merge it with Arizona, they can be their own bastion of conservatism for the world to envy......
So do back to New York. I've been hearing about how horrible California is for most of my 63 years from people who have moved here from the oh-so-wonderful (insert name of state here). Over and over I have heard how life would be perfect if hey could move back to their home paradise. They get the chance, move back, I turn around and here they are again. Where do you think most of the people "learned" to drive, or whatever you're bitching about at the moment. Then, Californeos move to Oregan, or Wyoming, or whatever after being squeezed out by the people moving here from those states and they get, oh we don't like you moving here. Get a grip.
What freaking DOUCHE bags those officers are
Fuck you Gil Torres and fuck you Virgil Asuncion - I hope you both get arrested and fucked in the ass.
Chris Smith is a very unique name, I don't blame the cops for arresting him. Plus I heard he was holding a wooden spoon - thats a dangerous weapon.
It would be interesting to know how many of these screw-up sheriff's deputies were former deputy marshals under Mike Carona who came over to OCSD in 2000 when the marshal"s office was merged in.
Seriously, we need congressional hearings on out of control cops in this country. It's a plague.
did these deputies have at least a GED? i guess the language on the court order is a bit complicated to understand for some of our law enforcement finest. poor guys are overworked. the dumbing down of amerikkkas finest continues...
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