CALIFORNIA PROSECUTOR FALSIFIES TRANSCRIPT

Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski declared months ago in a much-quoted opinion that there is “an epidemic of Brady violations abroad in the land.” And yet, prosecutors continue to deny there’s a problem. Indeed, the Department of Justice gets outright indignant at the suggestion, and so do many state court prosecutors. They bristle at the very mention of the possibility. 

But here’s another doozy: The People (of California) v. Efrain Velasco-Palacios. In this unpublished opinion from the Fifth Appellate District, the California Court of Appeal reveals that state prosecutors and California Attorney General Kamala Harris continue to be part of the problem. Kern County prosecutor Robert Murray committed “outrageous government misconduct.” Ms. Harris and her staff defended the indefensible—California State prosecutor Murray flat out falsified a transcript of a defendant’s confession. 

Kern County prosecutor Robert Murray added two lines of transcript to “evidence” that the defendant confessed to an even more egregious offense than that with which he had been charged—the already hideous offense of molesting a child. With the two sentences that state’s attorney Murray perjuriously added, Murray was able to threaten charges that carried a term of life in prison.

 > READ MORE: CALIFORNIA PROSECUTOR FALSIFIES TRANSCRIPT OF CONFESSION @ http://observer.com/2015/03/california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/ 

SEE ALSO: JAKE PAOLINETTI: CONSPIRACY AND HATE CRIMES @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/04/jake-paolinetti-conspiracy-and-hate.html + STUDY FINDS COURTS GIVE PROSECUTORS LEEWAY ON DISCLOSING EVIDENCE @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2014/12/study-finds-courts-give-prosecutors.html + OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE: PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF EVENTS AND/OR ILLEGALLY SUPPRESSED EVIDENCE BY THE SANTA CLARA POLICE DEPARTMENT IN JUNE 2010 AND/OR THE SUNNYVALE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN JUNE 2011 @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2013/11/prior-knowledge-of-events-andor.html + OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND/OR DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND/OR FELONY STALKING AND/OR UNCIVIL HARASSMENT (CONTINUED)  @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/08/obstruction-of-justice-andor-domestic.html