Criminal,
Discipline,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jul. 19, 2022
Disclosures of misconduct by LASC in Polanski case not a surprise
I didn’t fully comprehend that complying with these orders made me complicit in the court’s justice-denial, but conversations I had with the lawyers after I left the court in 2010 convinced me that I had been ensnared in a pattern of judicial misconduct.
Allan Parachini
Allan is a former public information officer for the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The California Court of Appeal has unsealed testimony of a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney taken secretly more than a decade ago and long said to contain disclosures of misconduct by the Los Angeles Superior Court in the case of fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski.
The court's order - issued last week - was in response to a letter from District Attorney George Gascon, sent July 12, that abandoned the years-long position of the D...
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