National Police Accountability Project
Amicus Curiae
Kenneth N. Flaxman, Counsel of Record The National Police Accountability Project is a nonprofit organization founded by members of the National Lawyers Guild to represent plaintiffs in police misconduct cases. Kenneth N. Flaxman has a solo law practice in Chicago, where he specializes in criminal appeals, discrimination and employment law, and police misconduct cases. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27, 2011. Petitioner was arrested on a warrant issued because he had failed to pay a fine. The warrant was neither quashed nor recalled…