Arpaio's office could face sanctions over records

[Ptah]

Source: The Arizona Republic

An attorney
for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office told a federal judge that
the agency destroyed documents it should have retained as part of
a racial-profiling lawsuit, opening the door for sanctions against
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's agency.

Tim Casey, an attorney representing Arpaio, admitted to U.S. District
Judge G. Murray Snow that deputies destroyed "stat sheets" generated
in Arpaio's controversial "crime suppression operations" and had
also failed to retain thousands of emails, all of which the agency
could have turned over to plaintiffs' attorneys in the lawsuit
.

The plaintiffs' attorneys, who represent five people claiming sheriff's
deputies detained them because of their skin color, filed a motion asking
Snow for sanctions in November.

The hour-long hearing Thursday was the first chance for both parties
to make their case in front of Snow, who essentially separated the
destroyed "stat sheets" from the deleted emails.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/02/04/20100204arpaio-sanctions-over-records.html#comments

[midnight]

1. Are these documents considered discovery? If so, the judge gets to decide if it matters

if the evidence they needed to prove wrong doing was important?

[Grassy Knoll]

2. This guy is a sick fuck........

Making men wear pink underwear, for his jolly's , and to bust people for their looks,
only in a McCant state.

[AzNick]

3. Nothing surprises this Arizonan anymore

This guy is a joke and nobody knows it, but all the old people vote for him because he is tough on those who are mean with animals.

Kid you not.

Where is Buford Pusser when you need him?

[Alexander]

4. Glad I got the hell out of Maricopa County. Too many racist idiots there for me to handle.

I never heard as much racist language in my life as when I lived in the Phoenix area.