by Bert | May 21, 2019 | California
It feels like the Orange County Snitch Scandal has been going on for years without real accountability. The only concrete actions the public has seen anybody with a position of authority take against the prosecutors were Judge Goethals’s groundbreaking decisions to...
by Bert | Nov 23, 2016 | California
We have been following the long-running, slow-motion train-wreck of a scandal unfolding in the Orange County criminal justice system for a few years now. We began covering the exposure of the county’s massive undisclosed snitch network in 2014, explored how its...
by Bert | Apr 27, 2016 | California, The Open File Blog
In a decision handed down this Monday, the California Second District Court of Appeal granted Mr. Garry Dean a new trial because prosecutorial misconduct pervaded the trial that resulted in his conviction for murder. In a fairly unusual ruling—most courts hesitate to...
by Sophie | Mar 20, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
It’s been a busy week since an Orange County judge found that local law enforcement and prosecutors relied on unconstitutional practices involving jailhouse informants to seek a death sentence in the case of Scott Dekraai and ruled that the Orange County...
by Sophie | Mar 9, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
Last year, we wrote about Deputy District Attorney Robert Murray of Kern County, who inserted two very incriminating lines into a defendant’s statement regarding the allegations of child molestation that were pending against him. A subsequent bar complaint...
