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LightlyToasted ago

EGREGIOUS MISCONDUCT

"Murray placed a fabricated admission of guilt into an English translation of Velasco-Palacios’ Spanish-language interrogation.

Specifically, the prosecutor wrote the following into the transcript:

“[Officer]: You’re so guilty you child molester.

“[Suspect]: I know. I’m just glad she’s not pregnant like her mother.”

Murray has said the change was a joke, but he did not admit to falsifying the transcript until nine days after delivering it to Deputy Public Defender Ernest Hinman, Velasco-Palacios’ attorney, and only after Hinman requested the CD of the interview be reviewed by the prosecution’s interpreter."

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/court-affirms-ruling-in-falsified-transcript-case/article_b2457691-4a53-54f0-96de-cdcdbf4453c9.html

sunajAeon ago

Since when is it appropriate to "joke" in a case? The response is absurd

LightlyToasted ago

Never, and it taints the entire confession, investigation, and prosecution. The court was right to dismiss the indictment, but the people involved must be held accountable. When the court uses the phrase "shocks the conscience," that's as bad as it gets.

"He found that Mr. Murray’s fabrication of “evidence”—falsifying the transcript of a confession during discovery and plea negotiations—was “egregious, outrageous, and . . . shocked the conscience.” http://observer.com/2015/03/california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/