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A reporter at Arizona s most-watched television news station says Gilbert police illegally seized his cellphone and threatened to access its contents by brute force after he was unlawfully arrested while covering the death of a Chandler police officer in April.
In a 28-page motion filed Thursday in Gilbert Municipal Court, attorneys representing journalist León Felipe González Cortés of Univision Arizona, based in Phoenix, say police also violated his First Amendment rights as a reporter and derisively referred to him as compadre in reference to his Latino heritage.
Police have held the phone for more than a month, and attorneys for the town and the police department have gone silent and refused to discuss returning it, the complaint states.
News Release
March 2, 2021
PHOENIX Governor Doug Ducey today announced the appointments of David McDowell and Stasy Click to the Maricopa County Superior Court. These appointments are to fill vacancies created by the retirement of Judges Douglas Gerlach and Jeanne Garcia.
David McDowell has been a partner at Rose Law Group pc since 2014 and serves as the head of Litigation, managing the department and overseeing all of the firm’s litigation. His practice is focused on civil litigation matters, consisting of premise and product liability litigation, contract and real estate disputes, administrative agency proceedings, and employment claims. His practice also includes transactional matters, encompassing commercial real estate purchase and sale agreements, financing documents, contracts with governmental agencies, company governance documents, and employment agreements. Since 2017, David also has been serving as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Maricopa County Superior Court handl