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West
Two weeks ago, Monique West, the mother of TyâRese West â the Racine 18-year-old shot and killed after fleeing from a Mount Pleasant police sergeant who was trying to stop him for riding a bicycle without a light at about 1 a.m. on June 15, 2019 â sat in the same room as the officer who killed her son.
In the same room
Giese
The unique situation occurred because, under U.S. law, all parties involved in a civil lawsuit â like the one Monique West has filed against Mount Pleasant Police Sgt. Eric Giese and the Mount Pleasant Police Department â are allowed to sit in on depositions of the other party; a deposition is essentially an out-of-court sworn interview of a witness in a case. As such, Giese could sit in on Monique Westâs deposition if he wants to when it comes along.
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In his sentencing Friday, Bernal was given two additional years to the six years he was already serving for drug crimes.
He was originally charged under laws that hold dealers responsible for the deaths of people who overdose on drugs they provided. However, in the decades after the passage of those laws, it has become evident they were problematic, in part because the prison population exploded without a dint in the problem of drug trafficking.
Further, as the issue with opioids expanded, there came a time when there was little space between dealer and user, as was the case with Bernal.
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