Law Practice
Nov. 4, 2008
Former L.A. District Attorney Goes to High Court to Protect Immunity for Supervisors
“If this case gets upheld, I don’t know why anyone would want to be a DA,” John Van de Kamp, a former Los Angeles district attorney, said of a lawsuit that seeks to chip away at prosecutorial immunity.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - When Thomas L. Goldstein went to prison for a murder he maintains he didn't commit, he was put there by a jailhouse snitch called Fink.
True to his name, Edward Fink was a long-time informer for the Long Beach Police Department in the late 1970s. At Goldstein's 1980 trial for the murder of John McGinest, Fink testified that the defendant had confessed the murder to him when they shared a c...
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