{"id":27645,"date":"2016-10-30T17:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=27645"},"modified":"2016-10-30T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T04:19:00","slug":"just-saying-california-prosecutors-who-hide-criminal-evidence-can-now-go-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=27645","title":{"rendered":"Just Saying: California Prosecutors Who Hide Criminal Evidence Can Now Go to Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">BY RAUL HERNANDEZ<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Notebookventura@gmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27343 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ventura-county-courthouse-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"ventura-county-courthouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ventura-county-courthouse-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ventura-county-courthouse-768x727.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ventura-county-courthouse-1024x970.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ventura-county-courthouse.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>California prosecutors can now go to prison if they hide evidence from criminal attorneys. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The month, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the law that makes hiding or tampering with evidence a felony instead of a \u00a0misdemeanor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is a law that is long overdue, and hopefully, the rest of the country can follow suit in adopting similar laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After sitting in more than 110 murder trials and countless criminal hearings in 18 years of covering state and federal courthouses, the one complaint raised more often by defense lawyers during the discovery process was that prosecutors were withholding, hiding or tampering with evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many of these allegations are just legal chest thumping but too much of it, unfortunately, is true, resulting in innocent people being sent to prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The California law, introduced by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez, a democrat from San Francisco, can result in prosecutors who illegally withhold or tamper with evidence to end up behind bars for up to three years. Previously, this kind of prosecutor misconduct was considered a misdemeanor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI hear so many stories about innocent people across California, and across the country, who have been wrongfully convicted,\u201d Lopez told the Los Angeles Times this month. \u201cI just hope that when people think the rules don\u2019t apply to them, they will think twice before they abuse their power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is an abuse of power but some unethical and unscrupulous prosecutors working at the District Attorney&#8217;s Offices do hide or tamper with evidence. They are more interested in posting courtroom victors to advance their careers rather than administering justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Taxpayers also end up paying millions of dollars for courtroom and other legal costs when an appeals courts rule that prosecutorial misconduct denied a defendant a fair trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27652\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27652 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony_Rackauckas_244x367-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"tony_rackauckas_244x367\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony_Rackauckas_244x367-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony_Rackauckas_244x367.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas was removed from one of its most high-profile cases: the prosecution of mass murderer Scott Dekraai.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The law was passed after the entire office of\u00a0\u00a0Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas was removed from one of its most high-profile cases: the prosecution of mass murderer Scott Dekraai. The court ruled that prosecutors violated rights of\u00a0confessed mass murderer Scott Dekraai by failing to turn over evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To read the Orange County Register article on the case click here:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/attorney-654000-county-case.html\">\u00a0<strong>Scott Dekraai.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Orange County Judge Thomas Goethals ruled that misleading or false testimony from sheriff\u2019s deputies about jailhouse informants and the unintentional failure of prosecutors to turn over evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">An Orange County public defender, representing Dekraai and double-murder defendant Daniel Wozniak, accused police and prosecutors of illegally using jailhouse informants over the past 30 years to coax confessions from defendants and withholding evidence about those informants, according to the Orange County Register newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rackauckas has admitted in past interviews that his prosecutors made some mistakes in handing over evidence and using informants, but none intentionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jail House Informants<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This evidence law signed by Brown is especially important when jail informants are used in criminal cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During the time I covered criminal trials in Ventura County, law enforcement was using a jail informant who was getting many defendants to confess to crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2009, for example, defense lawyer Robert &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Schwartz criticized the use of this jail informer to testify against his client.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I covered the trial for the Ventura County Star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Schwartz maintained that his client, a murder suspect,\u00a0while speaking to the informant, admitted shooting the boy because he feared for his life and thought he was going to be killed by the Mexican Mafia prison gang if they believed he did a drive-by shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4817 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Justice-Scales-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Scales\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Justice-Scales-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Justice-Scales.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>According to law-enforcement officials, the Mexican Mafia has issued an edict on the streets against doing drive-by shootings because innocent people sometimes get killed, which can spur additional law-enforcement efforts that disrupt the drug trade. The informant told Schwartz&#8217;s client that he was associated with the Mexican Mafia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Schwartz said the victim wasn&#8217;t able to pick out client in three photo lineups, and his client didn&#8217;t have a speck of blood on him when he was arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ndn-video-player-1\" class=\"ndn_embed p402_hide ndn_embedding ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-1 ndn_embedded\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-config-distributor-id=\"90541\" data-config-height=\"9\/16w\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24365 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LACourtHouse_01-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"LACourtHouse_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LACourtHouse_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LACourtHouse_01-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LACourtHouse_01-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LACourtHouse_01-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LACourtHouse_01.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The evidence indicated that the jailhouse informant, who was in a witness-protection program at the time, was three-strike felon who was paid $300,000 by law enforcement, including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, to inform on others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Schwartz told jurors that turning the jail-house witness &#8220;one on one&#8221; on other people has disastrous results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;That&#8217;s like letting a fat rat loose in a cheese factory,&#8221; Schwartz told the jury.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"main--authorcards\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Prosecutors argued that Schwartz&#8217;s client gave the informant a detailed confession and bragged about the cold-blooded, gang-related murder of a 16-year-old boy who was an innocent victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Schwartz&#8217;s client was convicted of murder and got a 25 years to life sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For more information on prosecutorial misconduct click here: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/californiainnocenceproject.org\/issues-we-face\/prosecutorial-misconduct\/\">California Innocence Project<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"main--authorcards\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Courthouse News Service)<\/strong> \u2014 A California appeals court overturned a homeless man&#8217;s first-degree murder conviction because the trial judge wrongfully excluded expert testimony on the plight and dangers homeless people face.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vladimir Sotelo-Urena, 31, was convicted of the Dec. 24, 2013 murder of Nicholas Bloom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Both men were homeless in Santa Rosa. Sotelo-Urena claimed it was self-defense: that he thought Bloom had attacked him before and he feared for his life, Courthouse News Service reported.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">An expert witness was to testify that because homeless victims are subject to violent crimes at much higher rates than people with homes, Sotelo-Urena was much more sensitive to perceived threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The victim was stabbed 80 times<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To Read More Click Here: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2016\/10\/28\/homeless-mans-murder-conviction-voided.htm\">Homeless Man<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27346 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161013_145855-e1477857769451-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"20161013_145855\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161013_145855-e1477857769451-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161013_145855-e1477857769451-768x808.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161013_145855-e1477857769451.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>On a Sad Note<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>My 89-year-old friend Mickey Schlein died Thursday. My condolences to his family. \u00a0Mickey spent 16 years sitting in courtrooms at the Ventura County Superior Court and taking notes. His calm smile, white tennis shoes and ambling gait at the courthouse&#8217;s hallways will be missed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0Rest in Peace, My Friend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>A Tribute to the Greatest Court Watcher Ever<\/strong>: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/just-saying-the-best-court-watcher-on-the-entire-planet-ever-my-buddy-mickey\/\">Mickey Schlein<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY RAUL HERNANDEZ Notebookventura@gmail.com California prosecutors can now go to prison if they hide evidence from criminal attorneys. The month, Calif. Gov. 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