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Litigation

Nov. 20, 2013

Prosecutor accuses lawyer of telling lies in drug-planting case

The only way jurors could find an Irvine lawyer not guilty of planting drugs in a school volunteer's car or calling in a phony tip to police would be to believe a "string of ridiculous stories," a prosecutor argued Monday.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - The only way jurors could find an Irvine lawyer not guilty of planting drugs in a school volunteer's car or calling in a phony tip to police would be to believe a "string of ridiculous stories," a prosecutor argued Monday.


The case against former Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC partner Kent W. Easter for felony false imprisonment of elementary school PTA leader ...

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