Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Who is sheriff's personal attorney?

In a phone conversation with a reader this afternoon, I got to wondering who is Sheriff Keith Nygren's personal attorney in the civil rights lawsuit that Zane Seipler filed against the sheriff's department.

The defendants in the case are Capt. Anton Cundiff, Lt. John Miller, Lt. William Lutz, Lt. James Popovits, EEO Kathleen Seith, the McHenry County Sheriff Office, the County of McHenry, and Keith Nygren, Individually and as Sheriff of McHenry County.

It's the "Individually" that I began thinking about this afternoon. Do you suppose Keith Nygren has his personal attorney involved to represent his individual person, as opposed to his "official" person as the Sheriff? Is there another attorney involved, or is Jim Sotos representing Nygren in both capacities?

Are the taxpayers footing the whole bill here, or should some portion of Nygren's defense be paid by him personally, since he is named individually?

Is some of the actions taken by the defendants were outside the rules, regulations, General Orders of the Department and maybe even outside the law, would the County pick up their defense bills for those actions? Or would the defendants have to bear their own legal costs for any actions taken in the case that were outside of their official duties?

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