Posted on 07/12/2013 9:41:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
State Attorney Angela Corey fired her office’s information technology director Friday after he testified last month about being concerned prosecutors did not turn over information to George Zimmerman’s defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
On the same day attorneys finished their closing arguments in that nationally watched trial, a state attorney investigator went to Ben Kruidbos’ home about 7:30 a.m. to hand-deliver a letter stating Kruidbos “can never again be trusted to step foot in this office.”
The letter contended Kruibos did a poor job overseeing the information technology department, violated public records law for retaining documents, and noted he was questioned in March when the office was trying to determine who had leaked personnel information obtained through a computer breach.
In an interview Friday, Kruidbos denied the allegations in the letter, which was written by Cheryl Peek, the managing director of the State Attorney’s Office.
He said he had acted in good faith about “genuine concerns.” He said he had been proud to work at the State Attorney’s Office and feared the letter would cripple his chances at finding another job to support his family, including a 4-month-old son.
“I don’t have any regrets,” he said, “but I am terrified about the future and what that will end up being.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...
Could this be grounds for overturning any sort of conviction?
It should, though the state makes a somewhat circular argument that failure to deliver the evidence wasn't significant since the evidence wasn't admissible anyway, not withstanding the facts that the claimed basis for excluding the evidence was that it hadn't been authenticated, and that the late delivery of the evidence denied the defense any opportunity to authenticate it.
Sounds like a good defense to me: “Yeah, I tried to rob that bank, but I didn’t get any money, so no harm no foul, eh?”
I smell an interview on Geraldo coming up.... with a little PRISM thrown in for good measure.
Anyone even *thinking* of retiring to Florida has to consider how corrupt the state is. Also, why move to a state if you can't defend yourself and the thugs know it?
Maybe we're just better informed on Free Republic.
J'Accuse!
Angela Corey needs to get recalled if possible and primaried if needed. Hell, I’d vote for the democrat over her if she ran here, and I’ve only voted for one democrat in my life and that was Joe Schwarz’s opponent.
This is just a couple of glory hound prosecutors wanting to win a high profile case so they can be a star. They were willing to cut corners and be corrupt to do so. No more, no less.
In other words, not Nifongs. Not quite...
I suspect that they are Nifongs, but that isn’t proven - yet.
Good point.
From the outset, it's seemed that Corey smelled political benefits from taking the case. And, as it became apparent she had, in fact, no case, she has doubled-down and begun cheating.
She'd have Nifonged it...
Most judges get thoroughly bent when they find that one side in a case has sandbagged the other. Not this one, it would seem. Like any good Democrat, she does as she’s told.
The images the FDLE recovered were pretty damaging to the prosecution ,,, I think they didn’t go 100% and try to recover all possible data after the easy stuff was recovered. The IT guy used an off the shelf law enforcement phone recovery package... seems competent enough by his demeanor and answers under questioning... he is toast in IT ,, time to look at new fields.
Before Kruidbos’ name surfaced in the Martin trial proceedings, he received a pay raise for “meritorious performance,” according to a document dated May 16 in his personnel file. Quoted from “Jacksonville.com”.
“Khoury is usually a Middle Eastern Christian name, not that has anything to do with anything.”
Surname of MARONITE Christians, and I am aware of that.
http://www.angelacorey.com/sections/information/corey_family.shtml
Angela Beth Corey married George Hoyte Lee, Jr. on November 10, 1991 and they were divorced on June 30, 1998.
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