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From San Diego Union-Tribune Story:

In 2000, an investigator for the District Attorney's Office wrote a memo to a prosecutor accusing Keyser and Ott of falsifying statements in an affidavit in order to get an arrest warrant. It is unclear if the officers were disciplined as a result of the accusation.

http://www.sandiegonews.com/news/metro/danielle/20020712-9999_2m12docs.html

Very interesting about Ott and Keyser. So they have been accused of falsifying statements in the past to get an arrest warrant, huh???

Well now, isn't that a coinky-dink? It definitely plays into the rest of the rush to "get their man", doesn't it?

Again.....more troubling revelations of LE in San Diego. It pains me to say it because my dear son-in-law is a police officer in San Diego County (Not SDPD though).

In 2000, an investigator for the District Attorney's Office wrote a memo to a prosecutor accusing Keyser and Ott of falsifying statements in an affidavit in order to get an arrest warrant. It is unclear if the officers were disciplined as a result of the accusation.

This is info that Nancy Grace was trying to skirt around on CourTV this morning. What are you afraid of, Nan?

These two officers have a history (several cases) of false statements to get search warrants. They also improperly continued to question DW after he had invoked his right to an attorney. This is why the affidavits were not presented at trial and were thrown out. Question to cops: if you really think that you "have your man" why not just follow procedure and let the system take care of it? Answer: Because they knew that they didn't have the right guy, but wanted to do everything they could to "help" the case.

Dumb move, guys.

Overall - not a horrible article - cept for this part

"Westerfield told police that Brenda van Dam told him about the dance when he ran into her at Dad's Cafe & Steakhouse in Poway the last night anyone saw her daughter. But she told police she never shared that information with Westerfield.

"Only Danielle van Dam could have told him about the daughter-father dance and only after she had been abducted," according to the affidavit, which was written by a police officer whose name wasn't disclosed in the documents.

It was unclear yesterday why the jury hasn't been allowed to hear about this discrepancy.

During the trial, a police officer testified that Westerfield told him Brenda van Dam talked about the father-daughter dance at Dad's bar. But in her testimony, she denied discussing the dance with Westerfield."

Now - here's Brenda's actal testimony -

13 Q. DO YOU RECALL ANYTHING ABOUT A FATHER/DAUGHTER 14 DANCE DISCUSSION? 15 A. I MAY HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE FATHER/DAUGHTER DANCE. 16 IT WAS COMING UP THE FOLLOWING THURSDAY. 17 Q. WHOSE FATHER/DAUGHTER DANCE? 18 A. DANIELLE'S. 19 Q. WHO WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO BE GOING WITH? 20 A. DAMON. 21 Q. WHEN WAS THAT COMING UP? 22 A. IT WAS ON THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE SCHOOL. 23 Q. THE FOLLOWING THURSDAY AFTER THE NIGHT AT DAD'S? 24 A. YES. 25 Q. DO YOU RECALL WHO YOU WERE TALKING WITH ABOUT THAT? 26 A. NO. I KNOW I TOLD DENISE AND BARBARA. I MAY HAVE 27 TOLD MR. WESTERFIELD.