How progressive must Shorewood seem when the village attorney moonlights as consigliere to hillbillies?
Ray Pollen's hillbilly clients pay $77,000 settlement in execution-style shotgun murder of family dog, and he weren't even hungry!
Tennessee officials previously represented by Village Attorney Ray Pollen in a Shorewood hacking case agree to settle for $77,000 in unrelated execution-style killing of vacationing family's pet dog as they passed through the methamphetamine producing, murder-prone constitutional backwater 85 miles east east of Nashville
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 20, 2004) -- Local o fficials defended 
by Shorewood Village Attorney Ray Pollen for hacking a Web site published in Wisconsin critical of their performance have agreed to pay out $77,000 in an unrelated case in which a police officer blew the brains out of the pet dog with a shotgun execution-style after they pulled a vacationing North Carolina couple and their kids from their car, handcuffed them and forced their faces to the cold, hard asphalt on the shoulder of I-40 on New Year's Day 2003.
The police officer, Eric Hall, turned around and sued his employer following the incident.
Pollen's clients and their municipal government, who control the methamphetamine capital of Tennessee, have had more civil rights suits filed against them than any previous regime in the region's recent history, federal court records show -- from illegally turning off utilities in the winter to force payments from people who didn't owe money, to a case brought by the former police chief after they fired him for blowing the whistle on officers who filed a fraudulent Worker's Comp case, to an officer who sued because a police captain held a gun to the officer's head, licked his finger and stuck it in the officer's ear, calling him "baby."
Pollen defended the group in a Wisconsin case after they admitted to an unauthorized upload of altered files to www.putnampit.com, which is published in Shorewood. The defendants, admitted they intended to use the altered files in trial and to submit the altered documents as evidence to justify their discrimination against the site . Pollen defended the hillbillies in a federal civil rights alleging first amendment discrimination based on content of speech. The hillbillies said "it weren't nuthin but a akseedaint."
You can read more about the kind of government Ray Pollen defends at http://www.putnampit.com.