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Good morning, True seekers and true crime junkies. Welcome back
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to another episode of Hit the Roadjack Finding the Zodiac.
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I would love to introduce to the show today, first
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time live in many months. Harriet Souchet, Good morning everybody.
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Am I reading already. It's good to see you. It's
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good to have you back live. The girls, Welcome to
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the show. Nolan del Campo, Good morning everybody. Good morning Nolan.
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I think that I cut you off and we started
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the show right at the point where I said that
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Trump is at heart been a Democrat pretty much all
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of his life, so heavy supporters of the Clintons, And
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you said, what, Nolan, has we flipped over?
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He's not really Republican, He's a fascist.
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Uh pick whatever side benefits or is he a slid
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in agenda by the Democrats.
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No, what do you mean.
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No, he's been he's been a Democrat all of his
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life until running for presidency, maybe.
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Nominally, but he's almost kind of like a dictator.
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Well, but the thing is is he only gets the
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agendas across that they allow him to get across. I mean,
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we're seriously stupid if we think there isn't somebody there
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controlling what it is that he can and can't do.
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As Lotus, Well.
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He's taking a lot of liberty to show to say.
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You think about it. When he wanted to release when
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he wanted to release the JFK files, When he wanted
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to release the JFK files back in his first term,
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he had people come to him and said, no, you're
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not going to do that. That's control, that's power. Those
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are the people with the plays. So yeah, he's going
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to get certain amount of things he wants across, but
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there are definitely things I'm sure that he's not going
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to be able to touch because he's not going to
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be allowed to so his his agendas, and we see
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him speak about of these issues that he's going to
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have or make happen, only to find out that he doesn't.
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It started to dawn on me. Is this the reason
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why people believe politicians are liars? They promise us the world,
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we vote them into office, then they can't achieve what
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it is that they promised us, and that is because
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somebody else is not allowing them to do it. So
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were they really liars or were they just stifled on
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what their agenda was a little both.
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I honestly think that they waited for certain people from
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that era to pass on before they released a lot
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of those files, because.
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There were people that were still I.
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Went to the JFK conferences and a lot of those
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people ten years ago are no longer here. There were
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people that said I was there, you know, on what
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they now call the Grassy Knoll, and they said what
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they saw. But those people are gone now, and there's
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I think the people that were saying that Lee Oswald
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was standing in the doorway next to Billy Shelley because
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they knew somebody who knew that Billy Shelley. Those people
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are gone too. So you know, it's like they waited
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for them to go so they can release these files
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so there won't be somebody who might hold things up,
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you know, and the possibilities of releasing them because we're
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still supposed to be We're still supposed to believe that.
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I'll get it. No, of course, I think that the
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agenda they serve us up, whatever it is that they
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tell us their narrative, is what we're supposed to believe
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and follow. And unfortunately, I, myself and you as well,
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I think we're divergent.
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You know.
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I mean, I'm not going to accept for face value
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what the news tells me anymore. I haven't since twenty twelve.
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All right, So let's climb back into this. I have
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some research that I did in the Peter Wilson case,
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and I have come upon information I thought that was
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truly interesting to share. I did pose more questions to
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mister Wilson in prison, and I'm waiting his responses to those.
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So we'll have probably one more section where I follow
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up or at least cover some of the questions that
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have been asked through either the podcast, Nolan, yourself, Harriet.
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With this new research that you've done, I went online
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myself and I tried to find some of the players.
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One of them was the district Attorney Lynda Condron. Of course,
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this would be the handwriting I'd like to get my
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hands on to determine whether or not she removed those
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two pages from the police file which were the alibi
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evidence of Peter Wilson. And the reason why I think
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that that's probably a good starting point is going to
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be found in some of these articles that I found.
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Of course, most everything was fluff pieces on the individuals,
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the officer and the DA. However, you can always find dirt, right,
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So in a couple links, I was able to find
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something on each of them that kind of makes me
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question their capabilities in railroading mister Wilson. So this is
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out of the Daily Journal. This was written on April
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eighth of twenty eleven. It says Judge Linda Urcondron admits
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she can be tough on lawyers, but they say she's fair.
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And it was written by Craig Anderson. It says San
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Jose as a prosecutor, Santa Clara County Judge Linda R.
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Condren was known as a hard charging advocate when she
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won a judicial seat eleven years ago. So mind you,
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she won the seat in two thousand and we're talking
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about the initial trial of Peter Wilson that was done
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in two thousand. See so it was only natural to
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wonder how she would adapt to her new role as
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an impartial jurist. In fact, Condron says she wondered about
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that herself. Keenly aware that many former prosecutors are regarded
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with suspicion by the defense bar, she says she worried. Oh,
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I guess I didn't continue on with her worries. But
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let's now we get to some more of the dirt
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parts of it. So on almlaw dot com, I've found
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judicial profile for Linda Condron. It says a career prosecutor,
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Condron ran for election to an open seat in two thousand.
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After she won, Governor Davis appointed her to the bench
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so she could take her seat early earlier this year.
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She was assigned a backlogged domestic violence calendar, where she's
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expected to handle cases from arraignment through trial and seeing
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she and the two other judges have cut down the
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number of cases waiting for trial from eighty to twenty.
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And she says, and if a prosecutor can't produce a
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witness but doesn't have good cause for a continuous Lopez,
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she will make the DA dismiss the case. So Lopez
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is I believe an attorney who is speaking in regards
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to Linda Condron. I thought that that particular statement right
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there was interesting to note because in the Peter Wilson
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in case, we know that William Coleman, the other roommate,
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which is the suspect in my client's mind, mister Wilson's mind,
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he believes that mister Coleman is the one that actually
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committed the murder. He left the country, he was no
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longer available to the district attorney as a witness, and
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Linda Condrin stated in or stipulated to the court that
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they were unable to locate him and if they were
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not capable during this trial to find him, that they
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would read his testimony into the court. Now, Nolan, I
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can't imagine what that testimony could contain that would be
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so important, obviously, U unless mister Coleman was fingering mister Wilson,
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and that might answer one of those questions, right.
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Was it a testimony and a deposition and growth.
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I have no idea. Again, I have did those transcripts
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from mister Coleman or from mister Wilson to see if
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he could provide with what mister Coleman's testimony was but
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he was being called as a witness for the DA.
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Yeah, that's generally allowable in a freelom, but her trial,
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you want the witnesses their lives, so the jury could
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see their faces and see if they're fidgety, and you
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know their demeanor and their behavior and whatnot.
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Well, and that's what made this statement by this attorney
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so interesting. If a prosecutor can't produce a witness but
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doesn't have good cause for continuance, Condren makes the district
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attorney dismiss the case.
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But she didn't do it as a prosecutor.
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Though heck, no, she didn't. And so it gets better, huh,
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says Condren. Said she doesn't try to hide her displeasure
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if an attorney isn't ready or intentionally miss represents facts
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in court. Oh, somebody's on a soapbox. But the judge said,
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she doesn't let frustration or emotion color her decision making.
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Early on, I made a decision for exactly the wrong reasons,
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Condron explained, And out of custody, I defendant violated a
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court order, didn't show up for a hearing, and was
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found sitting in a car in the court's parking lot
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with a bottle of tequila. It had been a stressful day. Yeah,
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I thought that was comical. It had been a stressful day,
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Condron said, And when the bailiff brought the defendant into
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her courtroom, she remanded him into custody. Condron said she
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doesn't regret the decision, just how she reached it. None
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of it was cold, clear, calculated decision making, Condron said.
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She said she agonized all night and went in at
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four am the next morning to make sure the defendant
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was on that day's calendar. After that experience, Condron said,
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she vowed, I'd never ever in my life do this again.
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I highly doubt that she could make any you know,
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promises to herself, especially when she was vying for a
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seat as a judge back when she was a district attorney, says.
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These days, Condron says she strives to be dispassionate. If
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her temper flare, she'll step off the bench for a
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few minutes and have a sip of water. Sometimes, she added,
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she'll run, pointing to a treadmill in the corner of
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her office. Where it got extremely interesting is in an
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article by The Mercury News saying can ex prosecutor let
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go facing double murder charges. In nineteen eighty seven, Miguel
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Angel I'm not going to try that last name, failed
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to convince a jury that he acted at the order
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of drug dealers who had threatened to kill him and
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his family. He was sentenced to death. But today defense
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attorneys say that they have evidence that his claim was
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true and that the prosecution team in the case covered
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it up. Though the prosecutor has denied wrongdoing, the attorney's
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evidence has so impressed the state Supreme Court that has
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ordered an unusual inquiry into the case, which will soon
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require the prosecutor to testify under oath about her conduct.
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That prosecutor is no longer trying cases. She is Joyce Allegro,
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a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, so coming from
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the same area and the same background, basically as Kondrin.
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Allegro is one of several prosecutors turn judges who engaged
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in questionable behavior while trying cases. A Mercury News examination
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shows now those individuals Allegro, Linda Condron, and Paul Bernal
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are provoking questions again, but the stakes are higher. No
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longer are they advocates sparring to make points in the courtroom,
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but arbitrators who can set the tone for an entire trial.
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All three are at a relatively early phase in their
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too earlies in the legal community. I think basically the
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message that gets sent is that you can break the
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rules to achieve results, and if you learn that lesson
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as a lawyer, it may very well carry over to
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the judicial role, said Michael Kresser, executor, director of the
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sixth District of Pilot program, which reviews prosecutors and judges
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conduct at trial as it researches appeals. Now, this is
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specifically in regards to something that Linda Condron did. Yet
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another judge who has created conscient divers both as prosecutor
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and juriss this Condren in her time as a prosecutor.
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Perhaps the most stark example involved Condren's handily and false
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testimony presented in Andreil Fagin's nineteen ninety eight murder case.
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The issue arose during an early hearing when a police
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investigator denied arranging the jailhouse meeting between Fagan and another suspect.
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The circumstances of the meeting were crucial because Fagan confessed afterward.
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In fact, the investigator had arranged the meeting, and he
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contacted Condron and after his testimony to say that he
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had misspoken, but she did not tell the judge or
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the defense. According to the court transcripts, the investigator went
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to Condron a second time, but she still did not
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clear up the issue. When the truth emerged in court
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months later, Judge Nazario Gonzalez scolded the prosecutor. It is
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important that the prosecution really really follows the rules. There
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is no need to hide the Balkans. So basically in
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ten ninety eight and we and we know that Peter
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Wilson was arrested in ninety six, but he's falling into
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this pattern in which Linda Condron is withholding pertinent information
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in regards to murder convictions and likely to secure those
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convictions because she's trying to bat for those points to
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make judge wow.
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Right, It's amazing how how many prosecutors become judges. Most
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of they happens all the time, obviously in Santa Claric Ellie,
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and it's nobody even about it. They just approve them.
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That's crazy. And we have her here, I mean literally,
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I think that there should be some type of a
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penalty to a prosecutor that would do something like this.
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Well, yes, there should be a judicial state bar investigation.
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That's misconduct, absolutely yeah.
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And she's showing, she's showing that that's the way she's