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Criminal

Nov. 14, 2013

Prosecution, defense in lawyer's trial spar over cell phones and missing texts

A deputy district attorney and a defense lawyer used the lead detective's testimony to support their versions of whether a law firm partner or his lawyer wife planted drugs in a school volunteer's car.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - A prosecutor and a defense attorney battled over cell phones, car chargers and missing text messages Tuesday in the trial of a former firm partner accused of planting drugs on a school volunteer who had angered his wife.


Orange County District Attorney Christopher R. Duff contends that Kent W. Easter - at the time a partner at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC - placed marijuan...

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