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Criminal

Mar. 1, 2018

US judge weighs in on OC jail informant case

A U.S. judge has commented for the first time on Orange County’s jail informant controversy, chiding federal prosecutors.

US judge weighs in on OC jail informant case
While dismissing a drug case, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney criticized federal prosecutors for getting involved in the Orange County sheriff's department jail informant scandal.

A federal judge has commented for the first time on Orange County's jail informant controversy, criticizing U.S. prosecutors as he dismissed a methamphetamine distribution case because of recently released discovery documents regarding case investigators' involvement in the scandal.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney is working on a written ruling, but he ordered the defendant released from custody last Friday and lambasted the U....

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