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Discipline

Dec. 8, 2006

Capital Appeal Dumps P.I.'s Work

SAN FRANCISCO - A fifth death penalty case has been marred by the work of a former San Francisco private investigator under suspicion of forging witness statements to help death-row clients on appeal, court records show.

By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - A fifth death penalty case has been marred by the work of a former San Francisco private investigator under suspicion of forging witness statements to help death-row clients on appeal, court records show.
      Seven of the 17 witness statements Kathleen Culhane submitted as part of Richard Dean Clark's federal habeas corpus petition ha...

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