by Bert | Mar 16, 2018 | California
The California Supreme Court this week overturned the murder conviction and death sentence of Vicente Benavides. Kern County prosecutors relied on various medical experts when it prosecuted Mr. Benavides for the 1991 murder of a 21-month old girl named Consuelo...
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...
