Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy Revenge Litigation Dismissed After $8 million victory

Deputy Deputy Andrew Rodriguez was barely handed after nearly six years in a lawsuit a jury awarded him $8.1 million, he was harassed for reporting misconduct within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department nearly six years later, and Deputy Andrew Rodriguez was left empty-handed after a lawsuit that jury awarded him $8.1 million. Go home.

When the ruling came, the sheriff's department said it planned to have a “major appeal.” Three years later, the California Court of Appeal ordered a new trial, deciding that the original judge made a mistake by giving too extensive jury instructions.

Last week, four days of retrial, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Armen Tamzarian dismissed the case. At the request of Rodriguez's lawyer.

reason? He said his client made a mistake in his testimony and the High Court's 2022 ruling made it impossible to correct without opposing the jury's jury's response to him.

In a statement to the Times, attorney Alan Romero called for a “hard decision” to dismiss the case. He noted that the Court of Appeal “found evidence to support all clients’ claims”, although the judge said the allegations related to illegal policing were subject to another law, which Romero said was shorter.

Attorney Mira Hashmall, who represents the county, has a dim view on Rodriguez's allegations, this time she said it was “collapsed” in the review.

“Evidence shows that he repeatedly violated department policies and made false statements to his supervisor,” Hashmall, a partner at Miller Barondess, told The Times. “Rodriguez voluntarily dismissed his entire lawsuit on the fourth day of the trial.”

The Sheriff’s Department also praised the firing in an emailed statement, calling the claims “bareless” and said “no harassment or retaliation lawsuits.”

“The department implements strict policies to prevent retaliation, harassment and discrimination and does not tolerate such behavior,” the statement said.

The Case Center’s claim date was 2013, when Rodriguez, who had worked in the county’s jail and court for several years, began training to become a patrol deputy for the industry sheriff’s city.

During training, Rodriguez began to believe that, according to the description of the case brought in the Court of Appeal’s ruling, his training officer pulled people down without reasonable doubts about misconduct. Once, Rodriguez In his first trial, it saidthe training officer directed him to lie about the arrest report, an allegation she denied in 2019, as reported by The Times.

According to the Court of Appeal, Rodriguez's next training officer told him that anyone on the street after the darkness would “rob” it, meaning they could be illegally detained.

Afterwards, Rodriguez worked with another representative who allegedly said he wanted to hit Rodriguez. According to the Court of Appeal, Rodriguez was transferred to work at the station's prison when he reported the threat.

The court said in August 2014, Rodriguez met with the station's top police officer, which was taken over at the time. Tim Murakami threatens to conduct an internal investigation into him if he does not resign or return to work in prison.

A few days later, Muracami wrote to the captain of the personnel management staff, asking if Rodriguez could be forced to conduct a psychological assessment to determine the applicability of his duties, citing “indicating a question of integrity and/or essential medical/or basic medical behavioral patterns/or mental health problems.”

Murakami, testifying at the trial in 2019, said the allegations against training officers were groundless and he denied retaliation against Rodriguez. A lawyer in the county told the jury Rodriguez was simply not prepared for the strictest patrol training.

In October 2014, Rodriguez took sick leave. When he was out, the department conducted several internal investigations into him. One was associated with repeated absences, while the other was accusing him of working outside of his work at Disneyland during his sick leave.

One third focused on concerns about whether police action will be taken when performing duties in 2015, when he detained a man who appeared to be blowing out of an air conditioning unit near his home.

According to the Court of Appeal, the sheriff's department investigated and suspended Rodriguez's dispatch of investigators to his home, told his neighbor that he had been in trouble, an undercover car stationed outside his home, and told the Disneyland manager that he had told the Disneyland manager that he had been in trouble. , he had trouble, he had trouble, and visited his doctor's office in order to get his doctor's office to go. His medical records.

“The jury could reasonably conclude that these actions were not necessary for personnel management, but rather constituted serious and general harassment,” the court wrote.

But Rodriguez sued under the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act, which the court said prohibits harassment based on disability rather than retaliation against harassment based on illegal police activities.

“In the 2025 retrial of the remaining disability claims, Andrew Rodriguez testified truthfully that Timothy Murakami's deputy, Timothy Murakami Timothy Murakami illegally threatened to fire him without a legal basis. “Rodriguez testified that the threat occurred in September 2014. Rodriguez ( Rodriguez immediately realized that he was misspelled and the launch threat occurred in September 2013, and the court immediately notified the court.

Romero said that since the High Court said the jury could not consider a claim for retaliation, the trial judge could only tell the jury that the testimony was not true, but could not be explained in any way. This gave the jury an “indelible impression” and Rodriguez “completely fabricated the shooting threat” and prompted Romero to demand a dismissal.