Editorial: What should we do about L.A. sheriff's deputies with histories of misconduct? (via latimesopinion)
Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell’s attempt to send the district attorney a list of 300 deputies
with histories of dishonesty or other misconduct that prosecutors, once they know about it, may have to disclose to criminal defendants to protect their constitutional right to a fair trial. Instead of turning over such lists, the court ruled, police may at most alert the D.A., one case at a time, that there may be compromising material in the file of an arresting officer or other police witness who is about to take the stand in a criminal case.
Even then, police can send over only the officer’s name, not the actual file. Ensuring that exculpatory material known to police and prosecutors actually gets to criminal defendants — as required under theThe California court’s ruling applies to each of the state’s police and sheriff’s departments.But the case has special significance in Los Angeles County, where McDonnell first tried to send the list to prosecutors, and where the Assn.
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