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To: carranza2 who wrote (266418)	9/6/2008 2:43:44 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794032

It's a state liability only if the guy is in the course and scope of employment. I have litigated this in the case of a serial rapist who was a cop. Won the case. That's nice, but am I right in supposing that the litigation of the case you won did not come free, and the state had to pay its share? They could have avoided that had the rapist been fired beforehand. Plus, if you think a trooper is unstable it is difficult to predict where and how he will pop off. Try as I might, I'm still only seeing a he said, she said: The Governor says she fired him over differences in policy direction; the commissioner says he was fired over Wooten but admits he was never told to fire him. Aren't there any cases like that in LA, where some party hack that Bobby Jindal fired complains of a personal vendetta?

To: carranza2 who wrote (266418)	9/6/2008 4:26:29 PM
From: mph	6 Recommendations Respond to of 794032

It's a state liability only if the guy is in the course and scope of employment. I have litigated this in the case of a serial rapist who was a cop. Won the case. These cases cost a fortune to defend, whether ultimately successful or not. Any case can be won or lost. Why have a situation where it can be filed in the first place? To me, any officer who tried out a taser on a child, and evidently did not deny doing so, is someone who should not be allowed to carry weapons and deal with the public in a position where he can arrest and detain.