Daniel Shaver

5/25/16  Last week a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ordered the release of portions of bodycam video footage in the Philip Brailsford case, in which an ex-Mesa Police officer is accused of second-degree murder in the January 18, 2016 shooting death of Daniel Shaver.   Because of the circumstances surrounding the killing, namely, that Mr.…

5/18/16  Yesterday concluded a two-day preliminary hearing in the second degree murder case against former Mesa Police Department Officer Philip Brailsford, charged in the January 18, 2016 shooting death of Daniel Shaver.  At the conclusion of the hearing Judge Sam Myers ruled that the State had presented enough evidence to establish probable cause for the…

4/5/16  Prosecutors and defense attorneys filed a joint motion for protective order in the Philip Brailsford case, which was granted on Thursday. The order prohibits the dissemination of the Axon body camera evidence in the 2nd degree murder case against Brailsford, which is ongoing. Laney Sweet, the wife of Daniel Shaver, who was killed by…