Man claims he was held in jail for 27 days without charge or a court appearance after his DUI arrest – even after he BELOW the blood-alcohol limit
- Taylor Brophy was arrested for DUI in March 2019 and taken to Sacramento jail
- Despite blowing under the legal limit to drive, he said he stayed in jail for 27 days
- He said his time in jail caused led to ‘financial loss, extreme emotional distress’
A man has filed a lawsuit against Sacramento County after he claim he spent nearly a month in jail without being charged with a crime.
Taylor Brophy said he spent 27 days in jail after being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, despite not receiving a formal charge for the crime.
He said his time in jail led to ‘financial loss, extreme emotional distress, mental anguish, outrage, frustration, severe anxiety, damage to his reputation, embarrassment, and the disruption of his personal life.’
Taylor Brophy spent 27 days in jail after DUI arrest without receiving a criminal charge
After being arrested on or about March 21, 2019 for DUI, Brophy was taken to the Sacramento Main Jail, where he was booked and tested for blood alcohol level.
Brophy said even though his BAC did not test above the legal limit to operate a motor vehicle, he still spent five days in behind bars.
Then he was later transferred to the Rio Consumnes Correctional Center to serve an additional 22 days in jail.
During his time on lock down, Brophy never saw a judge and wasn’t given an arraignment, bail hearing or probation revocation hearing, according to the lawsuit.
According to the suit, Brophy remained in jail even after other inmates heard a judge in the Sacramento Superior Court call his case.
The suit claims employees at the Sacramento Main Jail, Rio Consumnes Correctional Center, and Sacramento County Sheriffs Department ‘knowingly and intentionally promulgated, maintained, applied, enforced and suffered the continuation of policies, customs, practices and usages in violation of the Constitution of the United States.’
Taylor Brophy said the time in jail caused ‘mental anguish, outrage, frustration, severe anxiety’
Weighing in on the lawsuit, Sacramento attorney Mark Reichel told CBS Sacramento: ‘Ordinarily in California, 99 per cent of the time on a first time DUI, as soon as you’re sober enough, you’re out the door.
‘They don’t have places to hold you so they do want you out of there.’
After his release on April 13, 2019, Brody said jail officials never gave him a reason for he was kept in jail.
The suit claims Brophy is entitled to both ‘economic and non-economic damages’ from Sacramento County.