Snitch Scandal Judge Ponders $10,000 Contempt Fine For Orange County Sheriff
Complaining about continued "mind boggling" and "incomprehensible" record games by Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens in a death penalty case, Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals today declared he is pondering contempt findings plus a $10,000 fine against her.
Hutchens and her command staff, who have spent nearly 35,000 hours defying Goethals' January 2013 discovery orders in People v. Scott Dekraai largely by hiding massive caches of key records, provided him 5,659 pages of evidence in December.
But the judge called the latest batch of tardily surrendered records "a document dump" he suspects was designed to frustrate finding additional evidence of wrongdoing that would embarrass Hutchens and her department in Orange County's jailhouse informant scandal.
"I'm disappointed this is the tactic the sheriff has elected to take," Goethals announced.
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