Cobarrubia
Cobarrubia v. Edwards
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
facts in the instant case. At least one motion in limine appears to refer to a different plaintiff. Similarly, Plaintiff’s trial brief appears to be a “cut and paste” job from another lawsuit involving 26 different parties. (See Dkt. No. 78.) Additionally, the trial brief Plaintiff lodged via email with the Court was from an unrelated case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. 27 2 Alternatively, Plaintiff seeks to limit Mr. Cameron’s testimony, but she did not identify what police K9s. (Pl.’s MIL at 4-5.) Plaintiff provided excerpts of Mr. Cameron’s deposition testimony, which include testimony that, while admittedly he was never a K9 handler, he is a certified Peace Officer Standards and Training (“POST”) instructor who trains officers about the various force options available to him, including the use of K9s. (Cameron Dep., Decl. of Chike Odiwe, Dkt. No. 80, Ex. B at 23:12-23:9.) Mr. Cameron testified that, like training on the use of TASERs and pepper spray, he instructs on how a K9 is used as an intermediate level of force. (Cameron Dep. at 24:1-17.) Mr. Cameron further testified that, in teaching the officer safety…