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This is a seemingly innocuous question that anyone might answer with the response, “nothing.” But, on one occasion, an Agent was preparing an affidavit for a search warrant. It was a long document to meet the probable cause needed for the search warrant. The agent was in a rush. He finally had everything he needed to fax, yes fax. Look it up. I am not explaining a fax.So, in the agents haste he dials the phone number and sends the fax. Only after the fax has been sent does he realize he did not send it to the United State Attorney’s Office, but had instead faxed it to the subjects fax number. Talk about your Homer Simpson moments.This caused an investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility for the FBI. The final result was a letter of censure for the agent.As for the subject of the investigation, when he and his attorney reviewed the affidavit, they decided to negotiate a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Personally, I told the agent that he should have claimed it was a new investigative technique designed to expedite the resolution of the case and reduce investigative costs. He stayed honest and confessed to the error.

One Suggestion: Clean Parliament186 (1/3rd of total) of the newly elected MPs have confessed in their election affidavits that they have criminal cases against them. 63 are in ruling party. Highest ever. Can;t say about who do not confessed!They make law for you. Parliament can probate those cases against MPs. But they will never make any law which is against them due to employment and interference of big muscles. Fools ruling intelligent one.Anyway they won only when we voted them with clueless option.It would be so much better, if parliament have honest and clean 543 MPs. HOPE!

Kevin Dykes was charged with murder and attempted murder in 1987. The only evidence against him was jailhouse snitch testimony. He was wrongfully convicted of murder and two counts of attempted murder, and continues to serve a life sentence in prison. This case haunts me the most in my 45-year career as a defense lawyer.It all began when 21-year-old Kevin was a small-time drug dealer in Compton. Slim and Hondo came into the ‘hood to take over the local drug trade. Kevin got into a fight with his friend Ephraim, and Slim and Hondo decided to jump in with knives. Kevin did not need or want any help, but Slim and Hondo stabbed Ephraim and Mrs. Bradley, who was a witness to the stabbing. Kevin grabbed Hondo to prevent any further violence, probably saving Mrs. Bradley. [Ephraim testified to this, backing up Kevin’s statement to the police and his in-court testimony. The jury did not believe him.]Two days later, a dispute over a gun arose between the “invaders” and Kevin’s friend, Otis. While Slim and Hondo stabbed Otis 80 times, Kevin, who had been injured in an automobile accident, was helpless to help his friend. There was no phone at the house where this occurred. Fearing for his own life, Kevin pretended to help the killers dispose of the body. [The only evidence of Kevin’s “aiding” the killers, other than snitch testimony, was Kevin’s statement to the police.]At dawn, Kevin rode his bike over to where Otis’ body had been dumped in a drainage ditch. The police were there and Kevin told them that he knew what happened. Kevin went with the police to the station and gave a recorded statement. The detective who took the statement was a veteran detective who believed Kevin. Kevin was then a witness against Slim and Hondo for the murder of Otis and the attempted murder of Ephraim and Mrs. Bradley.Kevin was on the lookout for Slim and Hondo, who had fled the ‘hood. About a week later, Kevin was busted for possession of a small amount of cocaine. Because he was a witness on a murder case, he was housed in the county jail “snitch tank”, where informants were housed together. When asked why he was there, Kevin told fellow inmates that he was a witness and gave details about the crime. Two experienced snitches called Detective Branscomb, new to homicide, and told him that Kevin had confessed to killing Otis and trying to kill Ephraim and Mrs. Bradley. Branscomb then had Kevin charged with the crimes.Once charged, Kevin was transferred out of the snitch tank and into general population of the LA county jail. There, he met Leslie White, a notorious (to the prosecution, anyway) snitch. He, too, called Branscomb and became a witness to Kevin’s “confession”. At trial, White was the most articulate and convincing.I called several snitches and a veteran LAPD detective to say that the People’s snitches were unreliable. When the verdict of guilty was announced, Kevin cried, knowing he was going to prison for life for a crime he did not do. Few clients cry after a verdict.Two years later, Leslie White appeared on Sixty Minutes and demonstrated how he would learn about a case from an inmate, and then later claim the inmate confessed. White’s own cases would then be reduced or dismissed as a reward for a conviction. Soon thereafter, I saw White in jail and got him to sign an affidavit saying that he lied in Kevin’s case. Rather than grant Kevin a new trial, the LA District Attorney’s office prosecuted White for perjury, getting a three year sentence, and did nothing for Kevin.Armed with a second snitch’s statement confessing his perjury, I took Kevin’s case (mostly pro bono) to the appellate courts. The second CA Supreme Court decision was one vote short of granting relief. The federal 9th Circuit said they were helpless and that it was up to the state to grant relief.Before Kevin’s last parole hearing (2017), I wrote to the LA County District Attorney’s Office and asked them to review this case. “The least you can do is not oppose parole after 30 years.” That fell on deaf ears. The LA District Attorney opposed and parole was denied. A major factor in denying parole was Kevin’s insistence of his innocence.Kevin has told me that he has grown as a person in prison, and in a way, he was grateful for having gone to prison. He said that had he continued to live his life on the streets dealing drugs and getting involved in minor gang activity, he might not have matured. And might even be dead.This case haunts me because I do not understand how a prosecutor can look at these facts and come to a conclusion that Kevin is guilty. Even Otis’ mother (now deceased) did not believe that Kevin was guilty.