In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge federal appeals court panel has denied the appeal of a current and a former Beaumont police officer of a ruling in the civil suit brought against them for violating a man’s Constitutional rights during a traffic stop.
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Attorneys for Burke, Guedry ask appeals court to dismiss Newman case
October 3, 2012
After hearing oral arguments Wednesday, a three-judge federal appeals panel will decide whether a Beaumont man can bring to civil trial the two Beaumont police officers whose use of force against him more than five years ago resulted in a set of community-dividing criminal trials.
Appeals court upholds ruling granting Guedry a new trial
September 5, 2012
A Texas appeals court upheld on Wednesday a state district judge’s ruling that Beaumont police officer James Cody Guedry should get a retrial of his conviction for official oppression for using a Taser against an unarmed man.
Appeals court grants Burke a new trial
June 27, 2012
Texas’ highest criminal court has ordered that former Beaumont police officer David Todd Burke will get a new trial following his conviction for official oppression.
Appeals court hears arguments in Burke case
March 21, 2012
Texas’ highest criminal court will decide if the judge in the trial in which former Beaumont police officer David Todd Burke was convicted of official oppression erred by not allowing defense attorneys to strike for cause a potential juror who indicated he might not be able to be fair.
Federal appeals court sides with Beaumont in Newman case
March 15, 2012
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a district judge’s ruling that the city of Beaumont should not be a defendant in the civil rights lawsuit of Derrick Newman against two police officers.
‘Zero Tolerance’ policy questioned in Newman appeal arguments
February 7, 2012
Whether a so-called “zero tolerance policy” instituted by the Beaumont Police Department in designated high-crime areas of the city led to the beating and Tasing of Derrick Newman in August 2007 was the the primary focus of oral arguments in Newman’s civil lawsuit before a federal appeals court Tuesday.
WikiLeaks’ Assange: Journalist, Source, Activist or Peter Pan?
January 29, 2012
Is Julian Assange, the co-founder and public face of the whistleblower organization/website WikiLeaks, a source for news organizations, a journalist himself, or an activist/provacateur? According to one prominent journalist who worked with him, Assange himself is seldom very sure.
Burke and Guedry only defendants left in Newman civil suit
September 24, 2011
A federal judge has dismissed three of five Beaumont police officers named as defendants in a civil rights case stemming from the arrest of Derrick Newman during a late-night traffic stop on Aug. 24, 2007.
Of newspapers, storms and whistleblowers
August 26, 2011
What a difference a decade makes.

December 21, 2012
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