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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 7, 2006

Prosecutor's Fiction Too Close to the Truth - She's Off the Case

A Santa Barbara County prosecutor was removed from a rape case Thursday because she wrote a novel that bore a strikingly similar resemblance to the crime she was prosecuting.

By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      A Santa Barbara County prosecutor was removed from a rape case Thursday because she wrote a novel that bore a strikingly similar resemblance to the crime she was prosecuting.
      By self-publishing the book, "Intoxicating Agent," earlier this year, Senior Deputy District Attorney Joyce Dudley created a conflict of interest with a date ra...

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