[BookmanTheJanitor]

what death penalty?

[Tucker39]

Goethals. That’s a lot like Goebbels. See? I can play that “guilt by contrived association” game, too.

[smokingfrog]

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/long-buried-record-contradicts-orange-county-sheriff-sandra-hutchens-in-snitch-scandal-8338377

[hanamizu]

To be honest, this is one reason why OJ got acquitted. LA cops had been planting evidence for years and this was widely known or at least suspected in the LA black community. The scandal caused a lot of bad people being released from prison/jail and millions of taxpayers’ money for settlements. The “good guys”, the police and prosecutors, have to play by the rules or we all get to suffer with these kinds of results.

[Gay State Conservative]

OK...so move the trial out of Orange County.Problem solved.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals blocked prosecutors from pursuing the death penalty against a man who confessed to slaughtering eight people in a Seal Beach salon, ruling that the county’s mishandling of information regarding informants would prevent a fair trial.

Don't blame the judge - the fault here lies with the police for mishandling information and prosecutors for proceeding with cases based on mishandled information. Law-abiding citizens could be charged with crimes they didn't commit and sent to prison based on mishandled information.