Maricopa County Deputy Adam Stoddard Faces Tampering Charges

He and Deputy Francisco Campillo stole court documents from defense attorney Joanne Cuccia during a sentencing hearing October 19, right in front of the judge. Unfortunately for Stoddard, it was all caught on surveillance video. A November 4 hearing is set for a Maricopa County Judge to determine whether Stoddard and Campillo will be charged.

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Judge Donahoe Ruled that in order to find the Sheriff Stoddard in contempt,the defendant has to waive his entire attorney-client privilege! HORSECRAP your so-called "honor." Judge Donahoe has READ the documents - and determined they were attorney-client privilege, thus, the judge already knows the contents of the attorney/client privilege and can allow the cop's testimony in a closed hearing. THERE WAS NO JURY IN THIS MATTER, it is a CONTEMPT hearing, before the judge ONLY. Who can possibly be offended by Stoddard saying what he saw? EVERYBODY IN THE COURTROOM KNOWS WHAT HE SAW, he made a photocopy of the file. If the honorable jurist is so worried, the judge can take the cop's defensive testimony as to the four words the cop SAW in a closed hearing or go back into your chambers and let him testify in CAMERA and make a ruling. So the cop can easily defend himself, and the judge's point is completely FALSE. Besides, the "four words" are already all over the press, the cop has waived any right to be harmed by blabbing to the press.

Besides, by the cop testifying to what he claims he saw, "in plain view" (if in fact it were "in plain view" in no way violates the confidentiality of the attorney / client privilege, since the attorney didn't keep it confidential! The judge could make a limited RULING therefore, if he believes the cop actually saw something "in plain view", and therefore state that the defendant waived his right to object to the cop stating the four words he saw "in plain view". There is no need for the defendant to waive his entire right of attorney/client confidentiality or his right to counsel.

To rule the way the judge ruled in this case means that a cop can violate the defendant's attorney/client privilege, and the VERY VIOLATION creates immunity for his misfeasance because the defendant refuses to waive his attorney/client privilege. It's insane. It means that cops everywhere SHOULD always violate the attorney/client privilege, because if they do, they get the evidence that they could not have seen otherwise, and if they caught, and the defendant waives his attorney client privilege, THEY AGAIN GET THE EVIDENCE THAT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN OTHERWISE. The worst thing that happens? A minor fine for the cop. The worst thing that happens for the defendant? the illegally seized evidence, given in complete reliance on the attorney/client privilege, could be used against him and the defendant gets jail time. The 4th amendment is DEAD to Judge Donahoe. SHAME ON JUDGE DONAHOE, you ARE A DISGRACE to what a real judge should be.

WHAT A CHICKEN-SHITE COP OUT. This bailiff should be CONVICTED OF CONTEMPT OF COURT AND SENTENCED TO ONE MONTH OF SWEAT TENT time in Sheriff Joe the Fascist's Forced Labor camp, and he should be JOINED by JUDGE DONAHOE, whose contempt for the US and ARIZONA constitution is sickening.