POWERFUL ADVOCACY: Public defender in Alameda County CA has filed a motion to kick off not just the individual DA prosecuting the man he represents, *but the entire DA's office.* Cites "troubling & extensive pattern of misconduct." This should be done more.eastbaytimes.com/2021/03/18/pub…
“The motion, filed this week by assistant public defender Richard Foxall, says that District Attorney Nancy O’Malley “ignores misconduct in the ranks and in fact covers up that misconduct and, frankly rewards it.”
Chief defender @BrendonWoodsPD: “We don’t know how pervasive misconduct is, we don’t see everything a prosecutor does. But we do know about 20 lawyers employed by their office now that committed misconduct in trials. And six of them did it more than once.”
The current case: “Shawn Martin, an East Bay man whose murder conviction was overturned last year when an appeals court found the prosecutor, Butch Ford, “incorrectly urged jurors to focus on the victim’s state of mind,” not Martin’s, during his closing argument.”
This is egregious: the DA’s office—never one to speak out when it benefits them or hurts a person they’re prosecuting—now ingenuously cites “a guideline that dissuades attorneys from publicly commenting on pending cases.”
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