Sep. 9, 2022
US judge orders prosecutor to get other judge’s protective order undone
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter “ordered the prosecutor on that case to get his backside down there to Judge Carter’s courtroom and respectfully explain it,” said defense attorney Joseph A. Yanny of The Law Offices of Yanny & Smith in Century City.
An “upset” U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ordered an assistant U.S. attorney to get one of his bench colleagues in Los Angeles to unseal discovery documents in a Mexican Mafia case because it overlapped with a Mongols motorcycle club case, a defense attorney related Thursday.
“Judge Carter was upset that a document that was critical to the Mongol defense had been sealed by another judge in another courtroom at the request of the U.S. ...
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