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Orange County Public Defender Discusses Latest Evidence Scandal That Could Put Thousands of Cases in Question

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|Date: December 04, 2019
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Orange County Public Defender Discusses Latest Evidence Scandal That Could Put Thousands of Cases in Question

Two audits showed Orange County Sheriff’s deputies holding onto evidence for days and sometimes weeks or ...

Two audits showed Orange County Sheriff’s deputies holding onto evidence for days and sometimes weeks or longer before booking it. In addition, a separate audit showed evidence was missing. The resul ...

December 04, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 10 – Scott Sanders and Orange County Jail Informant Scandal

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 31, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 10 – Scott Sanders and Orange County Jail Informant Scandal

This is one of the worst stories about official corruption we have seen in recent times in California. Ba ...

This is one of the worst stories about official corruption we have seen in recent times in California. Back in 2014, Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders was the keynote speaker at the Vanguard's a ...

August 31, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Becerra Fails to Hold Orange County DA Accountable for Snitch Scandal

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 21, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Becerra Fails to Hold Orange County DA Accountable for Snitch Scandal

Scandal and Failure to Hold Official Accountable Highlight the Failed Prosecutorial Oversight System It h ...

Scandal and Failure to Hold Official Accountable Highlight the Failed Prosecutorial Oversight System It has been nearly five years since Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders spoke in ...

April 21, 2019
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OC Prosecutor Ran a Secret, Unconstitutional Jailhouse Informant Scheme for Years

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|Date: April 05, 2018
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OC Prosecutor Ran a Secret, Unconstitutional Jailhouse Informant Scheme for Years

By Somil Trivedi When Bethany Webb’s sister, Laura, was killed in a mass shooting in 2011, she couldn’t i ...

By Somil Trivedi When Bethany Webb’s sister, Laura, was killed in a mass shooting in 2011, she couldn’t imagine things getting worse. But then-District Attorney Tony Rackauckas of Orange County, Calif ...

April 05, 2018
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Commentary: AG’s Office Looks Other Way at Orange County Wrongdoing

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|Date: September 29, 2017
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Commentary: AG’s Office Looks Other Way at Orange County Wrongdoing

Back in August, we asked why the supposedly liberal California Attorney General’s office was trying to se ...

Back in August, we asked why the supposedly liberal California Attorney General’s office was trying to seek the death penalty in the case of Scott Dekraai, despite Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s (a ...

September 29, 2017
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Monday Morning Thoughts: AG’s Office Needs to Criminally Prosecute Sheriff and DA in Orange County Case

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|Date: August 21, 2017
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Monday Morning Thoughts: AG’s Office Needs to Criminally Prosecute Sheriff and DA in Orange County Case

We have been following this case for a long time – partly because it has been going for almost six years ...

We have been following this case for a long time – partly because it has been going for almost six years in total and the penalty portion since 2014 when Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott ...

August 21, 2017
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Judge Removes Death Penalty Option – Throws Down Gauntlet on Corrupt Officials in Orange County

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|Date: August 20, 2017
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Judge Removes Death Penalty Option – Throws Down Gauntlet on Corrupt Officials in Orange County

Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Davis back in 2014 to talk about the Scott ...

Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Davis back in 2014 to talk about the Scott Dekraai case and the sheriff’s informant scandal. Mr. Sanders first filed a motion in that cas ...

August 20, 2017
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Commentary: OC DA Denies Allegation of Jailhouse Informants on 60 Minutes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 23, 2017
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Commentary: OC DA Denies Allegation of Jailhouse Informants on 60 Minutes

It was November of 2014 when Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Davis to talk abo ...

It was November of 2014 when Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Davis to talk about the Orange County jailhouse informant program. On Sunday, the issue which has continued for ...

May 23, 2017
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Commentary: California Has to Figure Out a Way to Hold Prosecutors Accountable

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 05, 2017
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Commentary: California Has to Figure Out a Way to Hold Prosecutors Accountable

There is a rare occurrence happening in Texas, where John Jackson, the Texas prosecutor who convicted Cam ...

There is a rare occurrence happening in Texas, where John Jackson, the Texas prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his family by setting his own house on fire, is now facing ch ...

May 05, 2017
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My View: Why is California AG Seeking DP in Tainted Case?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 01, 2017
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My View: Why is California AG Seeking DP in Tainted Case?

It is disappointing that the California AG, a purported opponent of capital punishment, would continue th ...

It is disappointing that the California AG, a purported opponent of capital punishment, would continue the prosecution of the case of Scott DeKraai – a case that is so tainted it may bring down a DA a ...

April 01, 2017
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US DOJ Announces Investigation into Orange County DA and Sheriff’s Department

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|Date: December 16, 2016
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US DOJ Announces Investigation into Orange County DA and Sheriff’s Department

On Thursday, the US DOJ opened a civil pattern-or-practice investigation into the Orange County District ...

On Thursday, the US DOJ opened a civil pattern-or-practice investigation into the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The investigation will focus on ...

December 16, 2016
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Appellate Court Draws Line on Prosecutorial Misconduct in Blistering Ruling in OC Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 29, 2016
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Appellate Court Draws Line on Prosecutorial Misconduct in Blistering Ruling in OC Case

In 2014, Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Davis to discuss a case he had been d ...

In 2014, Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Davis to discuss a case he had been dealing with that was about to become a national story. In a death penalty case where the defen ...

November 29, 2016
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Eye on the Courts: California Cracking Down on Prosecutors Withholding Evidence

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 10, 2016
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Eye on the Courts: California Cracking Down on Prosecutors Withholding Evidence

A few weeks ago we presented the case of Oscar Cervantes, who has been sitting in prison for a decade in ...

A few weeks ago we presented the case of Oscar Cervantes, who has been sitting in prison for a decade in a case, with ample evidence that he had no involvement in the case. In 2006, when the Yolo Co ...

October 10, 2016
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Will Making it a Felony Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 28, 2016
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Will Making it a Felony Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct?

It was nearly six years ago that a report from the Northern California Innocence Project documented the h ...

It was nearly six years ago that a report from the Northern California Innocence Project documented the high level of prosecutorial misconduct and the very low level of discipline for those who were c ...

August 28, 2016
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Governor Signs Key Legislation That Could Curtail Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 08, 2015
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Governor Signs Key Legislation That Could Curtail Prosecutorial Misconduct

A year ago, the Vanguard brought in Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders as the keynote spe ...

A year ago, the Vanguard brought in Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders as the keynote speaker for its event on Prosecutorial Misconduct. Mr. Sanders has uncovered massive amounts of ev ...

October 08, 2015
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The Bane of Prosecutorial Misconduct and What One Man Has Done To Change It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 01, 2015
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The Bane of Prosecutorial Misconduct and What One Man Has Done To Change It

Last year when the Vanguard held its annual program for its Court Watch program, it invited Scott Sanders ...

Last year when the Vanguard held its annual program for its Court Watch program, it invited Scott Sanders – an Orange County Deputy Public Defender embroiled in a controversy that would absolutely exp ...

October 01, 2015
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Commentary: Is Harris Finally Going to Get Serious About Prosecutorial Misconduct in California?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 15, 2015
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Commentary: Is Harris Finally Going to Get Serious About Prosecutorial Misconduct in California?

Earlier this year, the LA Times ran a story where federal judges accused the California State Bar of turn ...

Earlier this year, the LA Times ran a story where federal judges accused the California State Bar of turning a blind eye to an "epidemic" of prosecutorial misconduct. At one point, Judge Alex Kozinski ...

May 15, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: A Deputy Public Defender Discovers A Bombshell That Threatens to Bring Down the System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 20, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: A Deputy Public Defender Discovers A Bombshell That Threatens to Bring Down the System

Last November, Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Yolo County to talk about his b ...

Last November, Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Yolo County to talk about his battle in Orange County against prosecutorial misconduct and Orange County. Since then, the case ...

April 20, 2015
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My View: State Bar Extracts Its Pound of Flesh From Parish

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 14, 2015
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My View: State Bar Extracts Its Pound of Flesh From Parish

We learned this week that the State Bar Court Review Department had reserved a ruling from a State Bar Co ...

We learned this week that the State Bar Court Review Department had reserved a ruling from a State Bar Court Hearing Department judge who found that former Yolo County Deputy DA Clinton Parish violate ...

February 14, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: The Year of Misconduct

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: The Year of Misconduct

When the Vanguard planned its Fourth Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony around the theme of prosecutorial ...

When the Vanguard planned its Fourth Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony around the theme of prosecutorial misconduct, we of course had little idea how big the issue of misconduct in general was going t ...

December 29, 2014
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