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Maricopa County Detention Officer Held in Contempt for Taking Document from Defense Counsel’s File
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2010
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2010, page 38
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Attorney Client.
Location:
Arizona.
In November 2009, an Arizona state judge held Maricopa County Detention Officer Adam Stoddard in contempt of court and ordered him to hold a press conference and publicly apologize to defense attorney Joanne Cuccia, after Stoddard took a document from Cuccia’s file while she was participating in ...
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