Orange County sheriff’s deputies for years maintained a secret, “unauthorized” blog on jail informants that was withheld from defense attorneys, according to testimony Tuesday in the Daniel Patrick Wozniak double murder case.
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More Secret Records Come to Light in Snitch Scandal
New disclosures about Orange County sheriff’s deputies hiding another secret cache of records about jail informants is threatening to postpone the May 20 sentencing of convicted double-murderer Daniel Patrick Wozniak.
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Rackauckas and Sanders Face Off in Forum
District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and public defender Scott Sanders battled each other over the revelations by Sanders regarding how DA prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies operated an informant network inside county jails.
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Goethals Issues Another Rebuke to Rackauckas in Informants Saga
The Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that District Attorney Tony Rackauckas’ team violated the constitutional rights of a man convicted of killing pregnant Fullerton woman by not disclosing information about an informant.
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Missing Cases Cast Shadow on Jail Informants Investigation
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.
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DA’s Office Rebuked for Blocking Dekraai Judge From Other Cases
An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled District Attorney Tony Rackauckas’ office is disrupting the region’s “orderly administration of justice” by blocking the judge whose ruling broke open the county’s jail informants scandal from hearing other murder cases.
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Another Murder Conviction Reversed in Wake of Jail Informant Scandal
An Orange County Superior Court judge has overturned a man’s conviction for a 2006 murder in Santa Ana, ruling that the prosecution team violated the man’s constitutional rights in using a jailhouse informant to win a confession.
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Wozniak Judge Refuses to Hold Hearing on Informants
Judge John D. Conley wrote that public defenders for accused murderer Daniel Patrick Wozniak had failed to show “outrageous government misconduct” involving a jail informant.
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Prior Murder Adds Another Layer to Wozniak Case
Samuel E. Herr, the Costa Mesa man Daniel Patrick Wozniak allegedly killed and decapitated in 2010, was himself acquitted of murder charges more than a decade ago.
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New York Times Calls for Federal Investigation of OC District Attorney’s Office
The Times’ editorial board did not pull any punches, describing the actions of prosecutors as “blatant and systematic misconduct” and calling on the U.S. Justice Department to launch an investigation.
