Posted on 01/29/2022 8:35:10 AM PST by george76
Prosecutors at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office are being accused of withholding evidence in hopes of convicting a San Francisco police officer of excessive force.
The NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit has learned a criminal investigator for the DA’s office, Magen Hayashi, testified Thursday that she was ordered by her own co-workers – attorneys inside the district attorney’s office – to withhold evidence, and said she believed she would have been fired if she refused.
District Attorney Chesa Boudin and his office did not respond to requests for comment.
The allegations stem from the ongoing criminal case against San Francisco Police Officer Terrance Stangel, who is accused of unnecessarily beating a man with his baton more than two years ago.
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During her testimony, Hayashi told a judge she never disclosed the fact that she interviewed a witness who said just before Officer Stangel pulled out his baton, the man he struck could be seen beating a woman. In court documents filed earlier this week, Stangel’s attorney, Nicole Pifari, argued Stangel’s use of force was “reasonable and lawful under the circumstances and existing law.”
The officer’s legal team has filed a motion to dismiss the charges based “prosecutorial misconduct” and “deceptive and reprehensible methods” used by the district attorney’s office. The judge has yet to rule on whether to throw out the case.
“The DA’s deceit and concealment of real evidence is disturbing, it is corrupt, and it is a violation of public trust,” Pifari wrote in the recent court filing. “Most importantly, however, it is illegal.”
Supporters of San Francisco's District Attorney Chesa Boudin responded to the testimony on Friday.
A spokesperson for the "Friends of Chesa Boudin" lobbying group issued a statement Friday which read in part: “The recall campaign must be getting desperate. They’re actually joining forces with lawyers for disgraced police officers. The recall committee is now working against police accountability in their desperation to overturn the last election.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/06/jackson-san-francisco-life
Isn’t there something called “malicious prosecution” or something like that?
BIRDS OF A FEATHER......
“Boudin was born in New York City to Jewish parents.[5] His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were Weather Underground members.”
Why am I not surprised to find out that he is another hate-filled member of the most pampered and privileged 2 percent of the country?
This is a total set up. SF cops need to find a new profession. Let the scum police themselves.
Boudin descends from a long left-wing lineage. His great-grand-uncle, Louis B. Boudin, was a Marxist theoretician and author of a two-volume history of the Supreme Court's influence on American government, and his grandfather Leonard Boudin was an attorney who represented controversial clients such as Fidel Castro and Paul Robeson. His uncle Michael Boudin is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and Michael Boudin's uncle Isidor Feinstein Stone was an independent journalist.
“SF DA’s Office Accused of Withholding Evidence in Effort to Convict Cop of Excessive Force”
Oh you mean like the DOJ is hiding video of the Jan 6th protest at the Capital?
San Francisco DA Boudin “withholding evidence in hopes of convicting a San Francisco police officer”
The “friends” did not deny the allegation. They used typical Alinsky tactics to discredit the attorneys.
They aren’t even 2%. That’s rounded up. More like 1.6% and declining.
But hey, that buys you 8% of the House, 9% of the Senate, and two Supreme Court Justices...soon to be only 1 for the first time in decades. Meaning they will still be overrepresented.
Irrelevant you say, only merit should be considered?
That’s not what they say. It was their guy Blumrosen who wrote the EEOC regulations that pushed quotas on America.
If quotas were really enforced, they would be a tiny fraction of the politicians of the country, and an almost meaningless portion of the electorate.
Fair’s fair! Time to enforce quotas. Replace Chuck Shoomer with a Real American...someone named Hernandez!
Lot more of them now in NY then Chuckie’s relatives.
After Bill Ayers bombed the U.S. Capitol building, Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Ayers’s living room..
Uncle Louis Boudin was a Marxist theoretician. Grandaddy Leonard Boudin was a lawyer who represented Fidel Castro.
A result that would certainly please Soros. The Democrats have brought us unimaginable corruption, with little effort to conceal it. If they succeed in taking over our elections, it’s will only get worse.
George Soros threw huge money into DA and SoS races to install Marxists who hate working Americans, then the RINOs at Fox cut Newt off for telling the truth..
George Soros continues to collect radical leftist wacko DAs all over the country. One of the main accomplishments has been to make crime and the homeless problem much worse.
“The DA’s deceit and concealment of real evidence is disturbing, it is corrupt, and it is a violation of public trust,” Pifari wrote in the recent court filing. “Most importantly, however, it is illegal.”
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And, it is illegal, just ask this Texas prosecutor:
Former Williamson County, Texas DA, Ken Anderson Goes to Jail for withholding Evidence
In a story that dates back more than 25 years, former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson recently pled no contest to contempt of court charges for withholding evidence in a 1987 murder trial.
Ain’t Communism wonderful.
The people voted him in. What’s the problem?
A Brady violation. As in Brady v Maryland. It requires the prosecution to turn over materially exculpatory evidence in its possession.
Yeah, thst too, but I thought there was a term something like “malicious prosecution”?
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