Baker v. Leahy

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DITTER, District Judge.

In this civil rights action, plaintiff alleges that a police officer used unlawful force in arresting him. Steven Turner, Esquire, then a law student, witnessed the arrest while accompanying the defendant as a participant in the highway patrol’s “Ride Along Program.” Mr. Turner is now an assistant city solicitor, and is likely to be called as a witness for the defendant. Plaintiff has moved on the basis of Disciplinary Rule 5-102(A) of the ABA Code of Professional Responsibility to disqualify the city solicitor’s office from representing defendant or…