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Records of six criminal cases, which include key documents showing prosecutorial misconduct involving jail informants, have disappeared from the Orange County Superior Court’s computer system.
Erik S. Petersen, a lead prosecutor in major gang cases, was accused of false testimony during a hearing in the Scott Evans Dekraai case.
Court records raise questions about how vigorously Santa Ana police and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office pursued murder cases.
The final chapter in an unprecedented hearing on alleged prosecutorial misconduct will focus on a federal court ruling that California’s death penalty system is unconstitutional.
Superior Court Judge Terri K. Flynn-Peister, a former federal prosecutor, on stand in highly unusual instance of judge as a witness in her own jurisdiction.
A Santa Ana man’s conviction for murder and his life sentence becomes the first case overturned following disclosures from an unprecedented hearing on prosecutorial conduct.