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VIDEO: Judge Calls Cop Stealing From Defense Lawyer's File "Leeway"

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Required watching for every defense lawyer, prosecutor, judge, bailiff, defendant, voter, garbage man, teacher, citizen of the world, is this video where an in-court deputy is seen stealing a document from the file of a criminal defense lawyer.There's almost nothing that needs to be said about this video.Well, almost.As usual, Scott Greenfield covered all the bases in this embarrassment of a scene in Maricopa County, Arizona. Scott calls it "blatant, outrageous and yes, illegal." He analyzes it this way: "First, this happened in full view of the judge, Lisa Flores, who appears not to have noticed. Later, when confronted with what happened, her first reaction is that her court officers are entitled to "leeway." Her second reaction is to seize upon a statement by Cuccia that this isn't the time to deal with the situation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on November 05, 2009 (boomark / email).