{"id":26428,"date":"2017-03-24T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26428"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:54:21","slug":"la-times-if-sheriffs-deputies-are-involved-in-misconduct-prosecutors-have-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26428","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: If sheriff&#8217;s deputies are involved in misconduct, prosecutors have to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-sheriff-problem-deputies-20170321-story.html\">If sheriff&#8217;s deputies are involved in misconduct, prosecutors have to know<\/a> (Editorial)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are about 300 Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs and higher-ranking officials whose personnel files include evidence that they lied, took bribes, used excessive force or committed some other type of misconduct that is sufficiently serious to undermine their credibility as prosecution witnesses in criminal cases. Prosecutors have a constitutional duty to share that kind of evidence about their witnesses with defendants, but they can\u2019t do it if they don\u2019t know about it, and the California Supreme Court has blocked them from poring through law enforcement files themselves to find out who those deputies might be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: If sheriff&#8217;s deputies are involved in misconduct, prosecutors have to know (Editorial) There are about 300 Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs and higher-ranking officials whose personnel files include evidence that they lied, took bribes, used excessive force or &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26429,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428\/revisions\/26429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}