UPDATE on my case against the cop..A crooked cop remains on the streets of FL  

Lesson #1 that you learned (and me,too) in court that day was that we sould have brought John down from Maryland to testify since the defense attorney took advantage of his absence and painted a very ugly and completely untrue picture of him that the prosecution was unable to refute. I seriously doubt the jury would have believed that a volunteer firefighter who works for Emergency Services was the thug gangsta from the big city that John was portrayed as being.

On the bright side...and you know me, I always manage to find a bright side. This officer will be less likely to do this to anyone else so at the very least, you were able to help other potential victims of this man's racial hatred. He also suffered the embarassment and humiliation of being arrested, figer printed, photographed, detained in a jail cell and...last but not least...explaining to his Chief why he was arrested in the first place. The fear of losing this case, as well as his job, hung over his head for 9 months and I'm sure he paid that attorney a tidy sum. It wasn't the outcome we had hoped for but I do believe that he learned a lesson and was knocked down a couple of pegs. I have to believe that he will follow the letter of the law very closely from now on...and one last thing that I just remembered...he'll never pull Joey over if he happens to be sharing the road with him again. That would look like retaliation on his part.