by Bert | Jun 7, 2017 | California
Kern County District Attorney Lisa Green is not seeking re-election in 2018; perhaps that’s a wise move, considering the circumstances. Already bogged down in considerable muck created by an ever-growing law enforcement scandal, Green’s office is responsible for a...
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...
by OpenFile | Aug 13, 2014 | California, The Open File Blog
In January we wrote about an incident in Kern County, California, where a prosecutor added lines to a transcript in order to make it look like the defendant in a criminal case had admitted guilt in a statement: A Kern County judge has thrown out all child molestation...
by Jane | Jan 2, 2014 | California, The Open File Blog
A Kern County judge has thrown out all child molestation charges against a defendant who was facing 16 years in prison because the prosecutor in the case added sentences to a transcript that indicated the defendant had admitted guilt when he hadn’t. Deputy...