Mike Manning

Joe Arpaio-Foe Paul Penzone and Republican Grant Woods Vote, and Woods on "Chenal-Gate"

Democratic sheriff's candidate Paul Penzone was joined by two prominent Arizona Republicans Friday morning, as he cast his ballot at the Maricopa County Elections tabulation center downtown. Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods and Rich Dozer, one-time president of the Arizona Diamondbacks, ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Sure Ain't a Conservative, and Here's Why

Joe Arpaio's Victim Deborah Braillard: Family Agrees to $3.2 Million Settlement, ABC15 Reports

ABC 15 and star reporter Dave Biscobing have the scoop again on the civil trial in Pinal County regarding the 2005 wrongful death of diabetic mom Deborah Braillard, who was denied medical treatment while in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's gulags and later died because of that lack of treatment. Earlier this m ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Victim Deborah Braillard: Seven Figure Settlement in Wrongful Death Lawsuit, ABC 15 Reports

Wednesday's report from Biscobing... Kudos to ABC 15 and its reporter Dave Biscobing for the yeomanlike work they've done in bringing to Phoenix viewers the civil trial in Pinal County over the MCSO jail death of diabetic mom Deborah Braillard. See also: -What's Mom Worth?: When a Woman Became Dea ... More >>

Stauffer Must Exit Sheriff's Race or Forever Be the Goat

Jailhouse Goons Make Fun Of and Kill a Mentally Ill Inmate

Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio: Family Files Notices of Claim Totaling $20 Million in Wrongful Death Case

An obscene cross between a Three Stooges short and a snuff film. That's the gruesome scenario depicted by two notices of claim served on the City of Phoenix and Maricopa County totaling $20 million for the wrongful death of Army vet Marty Atencio.The claims, submitted by Phoenix attorney Mike Mannin ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio Killed by "Law Enforcement Subdual," Among Other Factors, Says Medical Examiner

The Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office has issued a determination as to the cause of death for Marty Atencio, the Army vet brutally beaten and Tased in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's infamous Fourth Avenue Jail on December 15, then shipped off brain dead to Saint Joseph's Hospital, where his family ult ... More >>

Thomas Lovejoy Trial Postponed by Judge Neil Wake Due to Possible Settlement; Sheriff Arpaio Doesn't Have to Divulge Financial Info

U.S. District Judge Neil Wake moved the start-date of a potential defamation trial against Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio to May 1, after County Supervisors have the chance to approve a settlement. The trial for the lawsuit launched by Thomas Lovejoy, a Chandler police officer who accidentally let ... More >>

Sandra Dowling Loses Lawsuit Vs. Sheriff Arpaio and Maricopa County Alleging Bad Motives in Prosecution

​Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County won a lawsuit this week filed by former County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling over the 2005 raid of her home and subsequent prosecution.Dowling launched the lawsuit in 2009, alleging she'd been the target of a conspiracy by Arpaio and members of the B ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio in MCSO's "Safe Cell": Mike Manning Comments

Video of Atencio being stripped and left naked in a cell, taken from MCSO footage by Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman. Note: Gilman obscured parts of Atencio's body to maintain the dignity of the victim. As with the first video, there is no sound.Above is more disturbing raw footage culled from th ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Latest Victim Marty Atencio: MCSO Video of His Detention

Video of the Atencio tragedy, taken by videographer Dennis Gilman from hours of MCSO footage. Please note: There is no sound. Last week, Marty Atencio's brother Mike told me that he and his family believe Sheriff Joe Arpaio's detention officers "murdered" his brother, leaving the 44 year-old Army ve ... More >>

Marty Atencio Dead, Blood Tests Show Him Free of Illicit Drugs, Lawyer Says

One more victim for Arpaio: Marty AtencioYesterday, the family of Ernest "Marty" Atencio, the man brutally Tased and killed in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Fourth Avenue Jail last week, removed their loved one from life support. According to the family's attorney Mike Manning, Atencio passed away Wedne ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio Can be Deposed in Lawsuit by Ex-K9 Cop Thomas Lovejoy; Arpaio Continues to Deny Decision-Making Responsibility

Image: www.zanyimages.com​ Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio can be deposed in a lawsuit against him by Chandler police officer Thomas Lovejoy, an ex-K9 cop who let his dog die in a hot car. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake ruled this week in a dispute over the demand by ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Will He Get the "Nogales Mayor Treatment" from Terry Goddard and the FBI?

Damn! We're in a tight spot! Where's Lisa Allen when I need her? Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and mon ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Paul Babeu and the Garrity Rule

Babeu's probe of Hendy is compromised from jump One misconception out there is that the inquiry into MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell's memo by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu could result in criminal charges being filed against those Sheriff Joe loyalists now suspended with pay: Chie ... More >>

The Bird poops on a crowd of 9/11 deniers and reports on the latest symbolic protest of Joe Arpaio

Barnes and Ignoble: Sheriff Joe Arpaio autographs a book for Scott Norberg, suffocated to death June 1, 1996 in one of Joe's gulags.

Arpaio tells a $400 million whopper, and a New Times reporter's kicked out of Joe's offices--again

Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez gets a ticket; nativist nutbars bay at the moon.

Joe Arpaio Watch: Sheriff his own worst enemy on KTAR's Jay Lawrence show.

BREAKING NEWS: Family of Carol Gotbaum serves PHX with a Notice of Claim for $8 million.

The Bird wonders why Sheriff Joe Arpaio put a U.S. citizen behind bars for simply appearing Mexican

Money Shot

If Maricopa County supervisors wanted to go after Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they could. They could focus on his office's finances

PHX attorney Mike Manning demands that Thomas, Arpaio and Wilenchik not destroy docs related to Lacey/Larkin arrests.

Pitiless P-Town

The cranky cockatoo slams callous P-towners, pecks away at (sigh . . .) another bogus "plot" to off Sheriff Joe, and profiles the "Mexican Mutant"

Press conference and video of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest.

Witnesses of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest allege police brutality.

Results of Carol Anne Gotbaum's autopsy still pending, Medical Examiner says.

Celebrity pathologist Cyril H. Wecht performs second autopsy on Carol Anne Gotbaum.

WTF? New Yorker Carol Anne Gotbaum, um, "chokes herself to death" at Sky Harbor? UPDATE: Mike Manning hired as Gotbaum family lawyer!

Score another one for Mike Manning: Maricopa County and Sheriff Joe Arpaio lose to the tune of $2 million.

Useful Idiots

The pissed-off puffin paddles fellow journalists, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and an FBI monkey-spanker at U of A

Mail Order Joe

The cranky cockatoo criticizes Sheriff Joe's new jail mail policy, and agitates the agitators at last week's kooky counter-protest

How Convenient!

The Bird asks Pinal County: Want to get somebody deserving indicted? Try Joe Arpaio underling David Hendershott, for destroying evidence

Death Sentence

Maricopa County jail personnel handled an unruly prisoner so harshly that he died. So what else is new?

Cross to Bare

For 20 years Dale Fushek was the golden boy of the Phoenix Catholic Diocese. Now, his golden boys are talking

Revelations

In the face of two indictments, Bishop O'Brien has gone back into hiding

Moral Minority

Bishop Thomas O'Brien is banking on attorney Michael Manning to save the soul of the Phoenix Diocese. The problem: O'Brien still has demons in his office.

Murder on Madison: The Norberg Remix

Tweaker inmate who died at the hands of jailers was also a loving son

Lies and Videotape

In an apparent repeat of its behavior in the Norberg case, the sheriff's office withheld key evidence from litigant

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Tweaking the Truth

Sheriff's office reluctantly turns over drug report on dead inmate

Sheriff's Cover-up?

Lawyer for dead inmate's kin accuses county of "intentional destruction" of key evidence

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For Their Eyes Only

Tentative pact would seal some records in Symington bankruptcy case

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