{"id":6342,"date":"2011-12-01T12:18:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T12:18:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T12:18:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6342","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Express-News: &#8220;Attorney: Trial was tainted by search&#8221; of counsel table during trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Express-News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/article\/Attorney-Trial-was-tainted-by-search-2336126.php#ixzz1fIuXYU00\">Attorney: Trial was tainted by search; Lawyer says prosecutor rifling through defense table \u2018unsettled&#8217; him<\/a> by Craig Kapitan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense attorney Tony Reyes was in the middle of calling witnesses for his client&#8217;s embezzlement trial last January when, during a jury break, a district attorney&#8217;s office employee served him with a search warrant signed by a judge in another courtroom. <\/p>\n<p>State District Judge Ron Rangel told Reyes to stand back as a prosecutor then began sifting through documents on the defense table, the attorney recalled Wednesday as he testified at a hearing for his client&#8217;s motion for a new trial.<\/p>\n<p>The tactic \u2014 in which Reyes was named a criminal suspect alongside his client on the search warrant \u2014 was so unheard of and shocking that it obliterated his ability to zealously defend his client, he and a large team of attorneys have alleged during sporadic hearings over the past month. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior post <a href=\"http:\/\/lawofcriminaldefense.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=abaj_com_prosecutor_served_search_warran&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}