A Western Australian coroner found that the police were not sufficiently trained and failed to de-escalate the situation before fatally shooting 29-year-old JC.
Hall served on the San Quentin Fire Department during his incarceration, leading to privileges like a shortened sentence and enrollment in state training programs.
The legal test for deciding whether there is a case to answer is low - is there sufficient evidence upon which, on the balance of probabilities, a disciplinary panel could make a finding of misconduct.
[An] officer basically shot an unarmed person in the back of the head and then lied to the family about it for a year or more," said Bradley Yourist, a lawyer for the Valdez family. "It's pretty egregious.
