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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Not How Perry Mason Would Have Handled It
2009-11-06
As defense attorney Joanne Cuccia discusses her client's sentencing hearing with the judge, Maricopa County Sheriff's Department detention officer Adam Stoddard walks up behind her, and begins sifting through one of her files, which she has placed on the defense table.

Remarkably, Stoddard then removes a document from the file and hands it off to another deputy, who then leaves the courtroom with it. They don't even bother to inform Cuccia, who has her back turned the entire time. The judge appears to have missed the incident as well.

But it was all captured on video.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#1  If this is an accurate portrayal of the hearing, stand back and admire the absurdity: Judge Donahoe is refusing to punish Stoddard for possibly violating Lozano's attorney-client privilege unless Lozano waives his attorney-client privilege.

Why is this anymore absurd than other daily actions of court procedures that have abandoned truth for ritual? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-11-06 07:29  

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