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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/meet-the-attorneys-who-pulled-together-louisvilles-12-million-breonna-taylor-settlement/ar-BB19eeR9
Meet the attorneys who pulled together Louisville's $12 million Breonna Taylor settlement
Andrew Wolfson, Louisville Courier Journal 3 days ago
They were an unusual combination: A longtime county attorney, a nationally renowned civil rights lawyer, a prominent personal injury lawyer and an attorney who gained fame for representing a teen arrested for making a wide turn.
Between them, Mike O'Connell, Ben Crump, Sam Aguiar and Lonita Bakercrafted Louisville's largest payout ever against the Louisville Metro Police Department — a $12 million deal that includes more than a dozen police reforms in the wake of the fatal shooting March 13 of Breonna Taylor in her home by three officers.
Mike O;Conner is a longtime Democrat
they are all Democrats…giving away $12M taxpayers dollars.
Left is using it as reason to defund police.
https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_O%27Connell
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/breonna-taylor-settlement-police-taxpayers.html
Mike O'Connell
–Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell
On one side of the negotiating table– — and one end of many Zoom calls — sat Jefferson County Attorney Michael J. “Mike” O’Connell, one of only four people to serve in that post in the past 52 years.
Seventy-one-years old, O’Connell, a former judge, has practiced law for 46 years — longer than either Aguiar or Baker had been alive.
He knew the emotional impact of losing a child — the “worst grief a parent can know,” he said.
In 2014, his 33-year-old son, Matt, died of a drug overdose. O’Connell publicly addressed it, imploring people with addictions to get the help they need.
Known for his mane of white hair and his fiery temper, O'Connell, a graduate of St. Xavier High School, Xavier University and Notre Dame Law School, is no stranger to big-money cases.
In 2012, he negotiated an $8.5 million settlement for Edwin Chandler, who spent more than nine years in prison for a murder he did not commit because of perjured testimony from corrupt Louisville police detective Mark Handy.
Appointed county attorney in 2008 by then-Mayor Jerry Abramson, O’Connell has fought for what he thinks is right — sometimes over the fierce objections of judges and prosecutors, who have called him self-righteous.
Two months ago, he ridiculed a plea deal that would have ex-detective Handy avoid prison, saying it was “manifestly against the public interest.” A circuit judge rejected the deal, and Handy must now go to trial.
O’Connell also has pushed reform.
Infuriating the criminal defense bar, he ended a decades-old practice that allowed lawyers for motorists with moving violations to amend them to “defective equipment” that allowed them to avoid points on their license. O’Connell denounced such deals as a “legal fiction.”
O’Connell went all the way to the Kentucky Supreme Court to end what he called the “despicable practice” in which defense lawyers called up judges at home to get them to reduce bond amounts set in court by other judges.
And, risking disciplinary sanctions, O'Connell has bucked the Kentucky Bar Association by publicly disclosing confidential pleadings, including earlier this year when he described as “shameful” a bar panel’s decision not to punish a lawyer who had threatened to kill two attorneys.
>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/meet-the-attorneys-who-pulled-together-louisvilles-12-million-breonna-taylor-settlement/ar-BB19eeR9
==Lonita Baker==
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/meet-the-attorneys-who-pulled-together-louisvilles-12-million-breonna-taylor-settlement/ar-BB19eeR9
Lonita Baker, attorney for Breonna Taylor's family
On the other side of the negotiations were three lawyers — Lonita Baker, Sam Aguiar and Ben Crump.
Baker, 39, overcame several hardships before she started practicing law in 2006, said her longtime friend, Metro Councilwoman Jessica Green.
In a guest editorial Baker wrote for The Courier Journal when she was 16 and a sophomore at Ballard High School, she wrote that her aunt was killed by a neighbor when she was 5 and that her father was murdered five years later by a drug dealer.
In the piece, she decried violence in Louisville, especially in Black communities.
“Now is the time for every citizen to wake up,” she implored.
She raised her only child, a daughter, as a teenage single parent, Green said.
Green and another close friend, Sadiqa Reynolds, president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League, says Baker has built on those experiences to make herself a better lawyer — making her a natural fit to represent the Taylor's family.
“She is a very caring human being,” Reynolds said.
Baker lives in Buechel. She attended the University of Louisville on a Porter Achiever Presidential Scholarship, where she majored in sociology and Pan African studies.
She went on to get her law degree from U of L as well. In 2012, she earned a master’s in business administration, with distinction, from the same university.
Baker was mentioned in The Courier Journal in 2014 when, as president of the Louisville Black Lawyers Association, she called for more diversity on the Family Court bench.
She practiced as an assistant in O’Connell's office from 2011 to 2017, before joining Sam Aguiar’s firm, and got her first taste of widespread publicity last year as counsel for Tae-Ahn Lea.
The teen was pulled over for making a supposed “wide turn,” then pulled from his car, searched and humiliated for 25 minutes, as seen by more than 1 million people in a YouTube video.
His lawsuit is pending.
==Sam Aguiar==
Sam Aguiar, attorney for Breonna Taylor's family
Craig Sam Edward Aguiar has only practiced law for 12 years and didn’t launch his own firm — Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers — until 2014.
But he already has built a small empire, with eight lawyers and 23 case managers and other staff in offices in Butchertown and Lexington.
The firm says on its website that in six years, it has won $100 million in verdicts and settlements.
Unlike some personal injury firms, Aguiar’s tries cases rather than just settling them, according to attorney William McMurray, who once practiced in the same building and whom Aguiar calls his mentor.
“He taught me to be a real lawyer,” Aguiar said in an email.
After law school, Aguiar got his start in the Louisville office of Florida-based Winters Yonker & Rouselle, which once advertised its services on every other page of the Louisville Yellow Pages.
Founding partner Bill Winters said in an email that Aguiar “stood out from day one.”
“We knew he would not be with us for very long, but didn’t care,” Winters said. He was a “smart guy, an honorable guy and I can’t think of a bad thing to say about him.”
Aguiar left the first firm before it ran into trouble in Florida and closed its doors in Louisville.
He drew his first wide public notice in 2016 as counsel for the daughters of Darnell Wicker, a Black man who was shot and killed by police while holding a tree saw. Aguiar said Wicker was hearing impaired and that police gave him 2 seconds to drop the saw before they opened fire.
The city paid $1.25 million in December to settle the daughters’ suit.
In 2017, he, McMurry and Aubrey Williams obtained a $1.6 million settlement from the city for the families of four boys — three of them brothers — who were killed when police chased the driver of a stolen car they were riding in before it plowed into a tree.
The boys were returning home from a field trip sponsored by Youth Alive and were told to get in the car because the anti-crime group’s van was full.
Aguiar's firm’s website says he is “not a normal lawyer” and in “a perfect world, he would take depositions while wearing his New England Patriots jersey and comfortable Under Armour sweatpants.”
It also says his friends “continuously make fun of him for his obsessive work ethic, which includes listening to educational trial lawyer discs” while traveling on vacation.
Aguiar lives with his wife and three children in Shelby County, enjoys bourbon and cigars with friends and has raced thoroughbreds that in 2017 and 2018 made $236,517 in 58 starts.
“He has a genuine sense of right and wrong and bringing justice to his cases,” McMurry said. “His combination of skill and caring is rare, and those two things combined will make him a legend.”
==Sam Aguiar==
>Wut?
>What about that dead man that was found in her rental car last year?
let's hear moar
you are probably think you are helping by giving advice, but imho, it comes off condascending.
>Mrs. Mike Flynn speaks out
>What was Epstein doing with that stuff???
>Same equipment in Florida house and on the Island
lots of speculation on dentistry equipment use by pedos
>His girlfriend, Karina Shuliak, was a registered dentist who was rumored to provide all dental services on his slaves to avoid contact with outside world.
I didn't know that by why just a dentist and no doctor on staff. Or was there one?
I thought they had a network of medical professionals and pharmacists all over they had access to,
I thought that's what the masons and Royal Order of Jesters were for.
professionals on call 24 7
i am watching cnn now and it just went downhill for them.
Allyson C has a 6 person panel on, half are biden supporters, i believe.. She asks if they think trump could have done moar to stop corona. only 2 say yes.
she asked how many would get a vaccine if available this year.
nobody would.
a Trump supporter says they would have to look moar into it.
> 6 person panel
6 people…only one appears to be caucasian.
one black trump supporter
2 black biden supporters.
calling Lin Wood
appears she was social distancing so no mask in necessary.
who is the karen that told on her?
I didn't hear the guy reading her the rights either.
how would they know unless he poops his pants?
>She'll be rich after the dust settles.
>How much you wanna bet Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend used her as a shield as he fired through the door????????
>How much you wanna bet Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend used her as a shield as he fired through the door????????
neither was Sandmann
where was this?
A screen capture from a publicly shared video posted online by Tiffany Lynn shows MCS Board Member Doug Mallet approaching an incident in the stands where a Marietta City Schools parent is tased while allegedly resisting arrest by a Logan Police Department Officer Wednesday.
https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/2020/09/breaking-mcs-football-parent-arrested-during-middle-school-game-for-mask-non-compliance/
A Marietta City Schools parent has been detained and arrested following noncompliance with state mask mandates during an eighth-grade football game at Logan this evening according to MCS Athletic Director Cody Venderlic.
“I’m grateful that it didn’t happen in Marietta, but it saddens me that it was Marietta that caused it in Logan,” said Venderlic. “As athletic directors, we’ve talked about this too and the biggest challenge about dealing with visiting fans is people behave much better at home than when they’re on the road.”
Two cell phone videos were publicly shared by one Tiffany Lynn and one Tim Ryan, Marietta City Schools fans at Logan on social media during the game Wednesday.
Venderlic stated he has been in constant communication with Marietta City Schools Superintendent Will Hampton, Marietta High School Principal Chad Rinard and Marietta Middle School Principal Brittany Schob concerning the incident and information relayed to him during the escalation by Logan Athletic Director Theresa Schultheiss.
Schultheiss said the venue hosted 300 fans for the game Wednesday, with only two individuals, the alleged mother and grandmother in the videos who were “having issues with compliance.”
>Schools parent is tased while allegedly resisting arrest by a Logan Police Department Officer
>Schools parent is tased while allegedly resisting arrest by a Logan Police Department Officer
This rule has been in effect since we were told we could play,” said Schultheiss. “Everyone that came through ticketing tonight was reminded, we had regular announcements over the PA reminding you that mouths and noses needed to be covered and we had signs at the bathrooms.”
Both Venderlic and Hampton asked that all fans remember what the rules are, with the focus and goal to allow students to play.
“The governor and the (Ohio) health department have made it very clear that masks are required indoor and outdoor at sports facilities. They’re just part of the expectation,” said Venderlic. “They’re one of the requirements the OHSAA (Ohio High School Athletic Association) brought down and said that if we’re going to be able to have fall sports we’re going to have to social distance and we’re going to have to wear masks.”
In review of the videos, it appears that the woman arrested had a mask in her right pocket, with American flag imagery printed upon it.
“I am really disappointed,” said Hampton after learning of the incident. “If you chose not to (wear a mask) then you threaten not only our ability to have sports but put your ability to watch as a spectator in jeopardy as well.”
MCS Board Member Doug Mallett is also seen in both of the videos, rising when the woman appears to have been tased by the police officer administering the arrest.
‘It escalated pretty fast into an ugly situation, he tased her pretty fast,” said Mallett. “I didn’t see where she was putting anybody at risk, I guess that’s a Logan rule. It depends on interpretation, it’s a state rule, but I thought there was some wiggle room if you have health issues. I tried to stay out of it until he got the taser out.”
Mallett said he hoped “cooler heads prevailed” after witnessing both the MCS mother and grandmother escorted to police vehicles.
“Hopefully they released her and forgot about the resisting arrest,” he said.
In the video posted by Tiffany Lynn, the police officer and Logan official are joined at the bottom of the stands by a second officer.
“Our other options are no fans — which is not what we want to do,” said Schultheiss. “The other option is to stop the game and then we send kids home. I don’t want to hurt these kids. We’re here to respect the players and let the kids play.”
Logan Police Department confirmed that the incident remains under investigation.
See the full story in Thursday’s edition of The Marietta Times.