Maricopa County Deputy Caught Swiping Lawyer's Papers On Court Camera - Rick Sanchez

[Bozita]

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Sheriff Joe says "Just keep moving, folks. Nothing to see here. C'mon, keep it moving."

[Sanity Claws]

1. Judge's behavior is also shocking

She is part of the institutional disrespect for an accused's constitutional rights.

[intheflow]

6. No kidding!

She had to have witnessed the entire thing as it was unfolding behind the lawyer's back. :puke:

[Wizard777]

7. At the very least the judge should have demanded that the deputies articulate their security concern

[bjobotts]

11. Dealing with one of the most corrupt legal systems in the country.Nothing will be done

[Wizard777]

26. Don't count on that. The feds are investigating this.

From time to time I debate police crimes and corruption with police officer, lawyers, and laymen. We use stories in the news as the basis of our internet debates. We've had cases where local IAD and the FBI have conducted simultaneous investigations. The local IAD exonerated the officers. The FBI arrested them and tried them in federal court. In one case an officer that was robbing drug dealers and reselling their drugs while in uniform and on duty. The feds busted him and he got 300 years. Most of that time came from mandatory minimums from having his service weapon on him while he was stealing (armed robbery) and reselling the drugs. The feds don't play when it comes to corruption of public officers. Those guys are going down hard.

[SF342]

48. She seems..

to have no control over her courtroom....this is the story.

How many more puppet judges do you suppose preside on the bench in that county.

Everybody in that court room saw what was going on except the defense attorney.

The nonchalant attitude indicates this is standard procedure.

I am curious who broke the 'code of silence' and leaked this tape.

[conscious evolution]

50. I caught that,too

Security tapes are almost never available to the general public.Especially ones that cast a negative light on the business or organization who 'owns' the camera system.

[Sanity Claws]

58. Is it a security tape?

I practiced in Washington State where some of the courtroom proceedings were videotaped. It saved the costs of a court reporter being present at all proceedings.

[conscious evolution]

59. Probably serves as both

Atlanta courts do the same thing.

[theorbiter]

2. Disgusting violation....

but of course the fearful, emotionally driven Right Wingers will cry, "but if your not doing anything wrong what has the lawyer got to hide". That is pretty much the stock response used to defend blatant violations of our rights.

[Enthusiast]

37. We've all heard that a million times.

In other words, right wing idiots gleefully advocate the undermining of the entire legal foundation of our country. Yet these fucking idiots think of themselves as some sort of ultra patriot.

[ellenfl]

42. "but if your not doing anything wrong what has the lawyer got to hide"

that has nothing to do with it. lawyer-client privilege is sacrosanct. her papers were totally private.

ellen fl

[Maestro]

3. Maricopa County is so screwed up!

And Sheriff Joe plus the two deputies in the courtroom are all part of the problem. Disgusting really!

[Wizard777]

4. That's illegal Search & Seizure and a violation of privileged communication.

[Hissyspit]

14. Blatant. No question.

And Arpaio's response was just so much obfuscation and bullshit.

[PatrynXX]

18. Wonder if they'd watched any of the CSI episodes.

Certainly Warrick Brown figured that out the hard way. Do'h.... okay fiction, but it makes the citizens smarter than the cops...

[martymar64]

5. Grounds for mistrial or to have the case thrown out on appeal

[DWilliamsamh]

8. Joe Arpio is one of the biggest a-holes in this nation...

Dick Cheney ain't got NUTHIN' on him.

[sasquatch]

9. Where's William Tecumseh Sherman when we need him?

[Divine Discontent]

16. Amen!!! I wish he were still here. The gravity of this is shocking. I would hope the gov't will

shut down the people in that county who are clearly corrupt, and let those who aren't manage, because to see a deputy walk right up and do that is sickening, and worse, the judge YELLS at the attorney for being upset, and then the sicko leader of them all calls it "appropriate". barf.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

10. I just hope

we haven't seen the end of this. Unbelievable.

[Delver Rootnose]

12. should have brought...

...an instant contempt of court charge but instead it should bring firings and the removal of the Judge followed by criminal charges and lawsuits.

[pundaint]

13. Are we surprised?

Shadegg, Kyl, McCain, Arpaio, at least the Maricopa County electorate are consistent. It's a damn shame that so much stupid is surrounded by so much beauty.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. Outrageous. More on the story: Officer Adam Stoddard is facing contempt charges

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/11/06/20091106mcsocourtdocs1106.html

Words made officer who took papers suspicious

88 comments by JJ Hensley - Nov. 6, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

"Going to," "steal" and "money."

Those four words, grouped in the same sentence, prompted a Maricopa County sheriff's detention officer to remove documents from a defense attorney's file last month, according to court testimony Thursday.

Officer Adam Stoddard testified that a handful of factors contributed to his decision to position himself behind the defendant, Antonio Solis Lozano, during Lozano's Oct. 19 sentencing hearing. And while Stoddard was there, his eyes "glazed over" a document with the four words that caught his attention.

Stoddard said the fact that Lozano had numerous papers that court security had not searched concerned him. People in the back of the courtroom who were there to see Lozano also made Stoddard suspicious, according to his testimony.

"It was a totality of circumstances," Stoddard said.

Thursday's hearing was a continuation of a hearing from last week to determine whether Stoddard was acting in good faith or was in contempt when he took the documents. Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe said in the hearing last week that he had reviewed the documents and determined they posed no security threat.

[trumad]

20. After reading the comments on that piece...

I fear for my country.

[barbtries]

45. yeah.

i'm shaking my head.

[PatrynXX]

17. Nothing to see here, just a bunch of hillbilly's with guns..

nothing to see here.

nope just floating my quota on speeding tickets he was going 56 in a 55 mph zone.....

[mwb970]

19. What appalling behavior.

The judge should be fired immediately, if nothing else. Her contempt for the law is palpable. Do I assume these are right-wingers? This is how today's conservatives routinely act. Laws don't apply to them.

Argh!

[RoccoR5955]

21. Fire the Sheriff, and the security officers

Put them in pink jumpsuits, and make them shovel up dog feces for no less than ten years!

[AzNick]

22. Everybody has such contempt for this force over here

Yet Arpaio keeps getting reelected because of pink undie/green bologna gimmickry.

He sure terrifies the "rub and tug" massage parlors periodically (lots of police resources, cameras clicking, flashes popping, all that for 5 misdemeanor convictions and 15 "misunderstandings").

[Butch350]

23. Ah, this problem is not just indigenous to this law enforcement agency.

[ensho]

24. charges should be brought on the Judge too

she is just a tool.

[CoffinEd]

25. Interesting...

Who would have guessed that reggae singer Junior Murvin's song would apply to Maricopa County too?!

[mjvpi]

27. Bush appointed USA

One can only wonder what the Bush appointed United States Attorney will recommend that the Department of Justice should do. The Obama Department of Justice is my greatest disappointment. As a progressive Democrat, this is another example of change that I can't even see, let alone believe in.

[byronius]

28. I'm so not surprised. Arpaio is a gangster, and Phoenix is a hellhole.

PS: I lived there for quite a few years, and know the whole story personally.

I don't live there anymore for a reason. This kind of reason.

Arpaio is a crime boss, running a personal fiefdom outside of any law or justice. He tortures, murders, frames -- whatever it takes to continue his iron grip. Right out of an old movie.

[Hutzpa]

34. Why not devise a way to expose these mongrels.

This is the infestation in America, THIS IS IT.

Some of them also have these politicians and Judges in a strangle hold,
so sometimes when you see a Judge or an elected official making an egregious
statement, just think of their reasoning behind such statement.

:think:

[cabluedem]

46. Corrupt cops and a Kangaroo court. Arapio and his gang need to spend time in tent city. nt

[markbark]

29. Perfect Precedent.

Since these chowderheads are already under investigation by the DOJ, I guess they won't mind Federal Marshals going through THEIR files without all that silly mucking about with warrants and such.

After all, if they have nothing to HIDE..... :eyes:

[valerief]

30. Toss that judge out on her bony ass! And fire the deputy and sheriff. nt

[ooglymoogly]

31. If this were not shocking enough; Even more shocking is that

the lawyer having learned of it and having confronted this kangaroo court who then tried to justify this calumny of deceit. Think of all the instances where these things are not seen or exposed. Thank you Rick Sanchez. This judge, the sheriffs and the deputies involved, should be removed in disgrace and brought up on felony charges. Our justice system has become a disgrace and is the laughing stock of the world; Has turned into a fascist organization and is no longer culpable for its blatant disregard of the constitution and the laws of the land. The excellent Rick Sanchez is the only (one of two) journalist on CNN; Which is normally just a hypnotic drone of corporate propaganda, drivel and blather. We are now living in Russia in the good ol' days of the KGB with the exception in our case that the corporations are the politburo.

[Hutzpa]

35. Corporations are the Politburo.

You said it....:thumbsup:

[Gman]

32. Civil rights slayings in the 60's were first tried in state court.

Defendents would be acquited because what they did was somehow seen as justifiable because the murderer was somehow provoked into killing the Black man who was with a white woman. Justice was not being served in these courts so it took the DOJ and federal courts to come in and do the job. It will be the same thing in Maricopa County. The corruption and disregard for civil rights there has been going on for so long that it will take the feds to fix it.

[Hutzpa]

33. I'm lost for words

Here is your terrorist, there they are, terrorizing every elected officials.


GODDAMN!!

[proud patriot]

36. well I'm not surprised this is maricopa county in AZ

there is no Constitutition in Maricopa County.

[L. Coyote]

38. Just following the example of criminals like George W. Bush

Hey, if a pResident does not have to follow the law why should police have to?

[KansDem]

39. If you ever go to Maricopa County

...boy, you better walk right, ...And you better not squabble and you better not fight. ...Joe Arpaio will arrest you, and he'll take your lawyer's doc. ...You can bet your bottom dollar that you're gonna be f*cked.

[L. Coyote]

40. Been there many times. Great place to visit in the winter.

But, the voters seem a bit dense :rofl:

[pundaint]

52. If you do go

You can avoid funding their baseball parks by renting your car at your hotel. Check it out, the voters chose to screw visitors for their ballparks with an airport-based car rental surcharge.

[alstephenson]

49. You better walk right and....

you better not be brown.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

60. I saw a Dead show there in 1990ish.

In all my Dead following travels, I never saw cops yanking people out of the crowd during the show for smoking a joint - until I visited Phoenix (the show was at some race track). It was surreal.

I had some goofy idea that things were much more laid back out west. The site of county cops cuffing people during a concert set me straight.

[Demoiselle]

41. I have a theory...because the paper taken was, itself, such a small thing...

If the defense attorney is new to the county, perhaps this is a kind of initiation rite. The sheriff and his deputies just want her to know that they can do pretty much any damn thing they want....so they stage this little operation in full view of the judge...who, of course, does nothing to stop them or punish them. If I were starting up a practice there, I would seriously rethink the whole thing.
I HOPE that the feds will clean the place up.

[barbtries]

43. that was blatantly outrageous

is there a place to see the video complete with audio?

[conscious evolution]

51. Here on DU

The whole video was posted here last week.Look in the archives.I think that Joanne98 posted it here.

[barbtries]

54. thank you

amazing how many stories get by me, i'm on DU every friggin' day of my life!

[GreenTea]

44. Good report...I'm shocked that it's Fox "news" clone, CNN breaking a story like this.

[winyanstaz]

47. I saw that a few days ago and I was very upset by it...

It is plain to see that that man did not get a fair trial.
It is also plain to see that the deputies are criminals and need to have their asses FIRED...along with the Judge.

[DuaneBidoux]

53. It's hard to believe this case will not end up getting thrown out.

[sulphurdunn]

55. Joe and his department are a threat

to the security of the county. I doubt the deputy would have been so brazen unless he knew or thought the judge was on board.

[EFerrari]

56. Flouting not flaunting the Constitution.

That was my grammar police moment for the day!

[pmorlan1]

57. Outrageous

This is just outrageous! Kudos to Rick Sanchez for covering this story.