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Litigation

Jun. 28, 2014

Former assistant US attorney denies blocking jail informant information

Refuting testimony from a senior deputy district attorney, Judge Terry K. Flynn-Peister testified that when she was a federal prosecutor she never ordered a jailhouse informant's notes withheld from defense attorneys.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - Taking the stand in a months-long hearing into the use of informants in the Orange County jail, a former federal prosecutor rebutted suggestions by the county district attorney's office that she interfered with any state criminal investigations.


In fact, Terry K. Flynn-Peister, now an Orange County Superior Court judge, flatly denied testimony by a deputy district attorney earli...

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