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Officers Charged With Violating Hispanics' Rights To Be Tried



The federal trial of two East Haven police officers accused of violating the civil rights of Hispanic business owners and motorists starts Monday.
David Cari and Dennis Spaulding are charged with conspiracy against civil rights, deprivation of rights for making arrests without probable cause and obstruction of justice. Spaulding also has been charged with unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer. If convicted they face maximum sentences of 20 years.



http://articles.courant.com/images/pixel.gifThe trial, before U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Thompson in Hartford, is expected to take at least a month.
Cari and Spaulding were arrested in January 2012 along with two other East Haven officers – Robert Miller and Jason Zullo – after a federal civil rights investigation of the police department. When the arrests were announced, federal authorities called the officer "racial bullies."
Miller and Zullo have since both pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Miller has agreed to testify against his fellow officers.
Zullo's sentencing has been postponed until after this trial because his attorney, Norman Pattis, objected to the government's attempts to have alleged civil rights violations which were not part of the plea be included as relevant conduct for his sentencing. Zullo is not expected to testify against the officers.
Some of that evidence will be the basis of their case against the other two officers including officer-to-officer communications involving disparaging remarks about Hispanics and discussions about stopping cars leaving Hispanic-owned businesses in town.
The civil rights investigation began after the Rev. James Manship was arrested while trying to videotape the arrest of a Latino man inside the My Country Store. Spaulding and Cari were involved in that arrest. The two officers also caught on security tapes going back to the store after the arrests and trying to get the owner to give them copies of a security tape. They are seen walking into the back room of the store searching for the tapes.
Following Manship's arrest, a federal civil rights lawsuit prepared with the assistance of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale University was filed against the department. Nine plaintiffs alleged racial profiling and the use of excessive force by police. The lawsuit has been put on hold until the criminal proceedings are completed.