Recently disclosed Orange County sheriff’s deputies records refute previous testimony in the case against mass murderer Scott Evans Dekraai, according to court documents filed Thursday by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas’ team.
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Delay in Wozniak Sentencing Marks New Phase of Jail Informants Scandal
The sentencing of Daniel Patrick Wozniak, who was convicted last December of a grisly double-murder, will continue to drag on after more revelations of Orange County Sheriff’s deputies maintaining secret records on jailhouse snitches have surfaced in recent weeks.
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Inside OC: Sheriff Hutchens Says Likely to Run Again; Discusses Jail Break, Informant Scandal
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens talks to Rick Reiff about beating breast cancer, seeking re-election, investigating the recent jail break and downplays the ongoing jail snitch scandal among many other things in a wide ranging, two part video interview.
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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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The Scandal-Singed DA’s Who Want to Be Judges
Two prosecutors from the Orange County District Attorney’s office are running for Superior Court judgeships, aiming to take the bench alongside judges who’ve called them out for misconduct in the jailhouse informants scandal.
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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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‘A Failure of Leadership’ in DA’s Office, Panel Finds
In a scathing report, independent legal authorities evaluating the jailhouse informants scandal found District Attorney Tony Rackauckas’ office has a “win at all costs” mentality and is in need of a substantial reorganization.
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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.
