by OpenFile | Sep 14, 2014 | Arizona, The Open File Blog
Last Tuesday, Stephen Lemons at the Phoenix New Times Blog noted that Bill Montgomery’s office had hired a former FBI agent with a troublesome record of making outlandish comments about Muslim extremists to teach local law enforcement on how to recognize...
by OpenFile | Aug 21, 2014 | Arizona, The Open File Blog
Evidence that prosecutors improperly kept from grand juries in a Maricopa County murder case has led to the acquittals and dismissals of all charges in the case, which went to trial earlier this month. Michael Kiefer, who wrote a terrific four-part series on...
by Sophie | Aug 5, 2014 | Arizona, The Open File Blog
Update 2.26.2015 The Pinal County Clerk of Court has issued a press release today providing additional details about the story below in which the County Attorney’s office was found to have improperly violated a court order by accessing sealed documents through...
by OpenFile | Mar 27, 2014 | Arizona, The Open File Blog
Deputy Pinal County Attorney Richard Wintory has been suspended from practicing law for 90 days, effective March 15, after the Arizona Supreme Court accepted an agreement entered into by Wintory and the Arizona State Bar in February. The agreement came in response to...
by OpenFile | Feb 19, 2014 | Arizona, The Open File Blog
Michael Kiefer of The Arizona Republic reports that Deputy Pinal County Attorney Richard Wintory has agreed to a 90-day suspension of his license to practice law for committing misconduct in a capital case, according to a consent agreement filed by the Arizona State...
by OpenFile | Dec 13, 2013 | Arizona, The Open File Blog
The Payson Roundup reports that a Gila County judge has thrown out the convictions of a Payson man resulting from an altercation with police in 2011. Brandon Lee Lewis was found guilty of two charges of assaulting a police officer, one charge of resisting arrest and...
