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Law Practice

Aug. 4, 2006

Bar Suspends Ex-DA for Three Years

The State Bar Court has ordered a former Sonoma County prosecutor suspended from practice for three years for professional misconduct, including withholding crucial evidence in a murder trial that allowed a suspect to go free.

By Susan McRae
Daily Journal Staff Writer


The State Bar Court has ordered a former Sonoma County prosecutor suspended from practice for three years for professional misconduct, including withholding crucial evidence in a murder trial that allowed a suspect to go free.
      Brooke P. Halsey Jr., 44, also was placed on five years' probation and ordered to attend ethics school and pass a multistate profes...

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