Source:
The Arizona RepublicAn attorney
for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office told a federal judge that
the agency destroyed documents it should have retained as part of
a racial-profiling lawsuit, opening the door for sanctions against
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's agency.
Tim Casey, an attorney representing Arpaio, admitted to U.S. District
Judge G. Murray Snow that deputies destroyed "stat sheets" generated
in Arpaio's controversial "crime suppression operations" and had
also failed to retain thousands of emails, all of which the agency
could have turned over to plaintiffs' attorneys in the lawsuit
.
The plaintiffs' attorneys, who represent five people claiming sheriff's
deputies detained them because of their skin color, filed a motion asking
Snow for sanctions in November.
The hour-long hearing Thursday was the first chance for both parties
to make their case in front of Snow, who essentially separated the
destroyed "stat sheets" from the deleted emails.
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