Robert Simon
Role at the time: Attorney for Carlos Jimenez
Condemned
Statement summary
Simon said the officers were unreasonably aggressive, violated their own policies and left Jimenez no safe option but to reverse away.
“He had to reverse to get away.”
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Los Angeles Times follow-up reporting presenting the account and legal assessment of Carlos Jimenez’s attorneys Cynthia Santiago and Robert Simon.
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He rejects the self-defense account and attributes the danger to the officers’ aggressive conduct.