An attorney gives us his oppinion...

We looked at the timeline of events in the Bernardo Barrera mortgage fraud case yesterday as presented to us in the arrest affidavit that was created by Detective Jorge Baluja and Prosecutor Bill Kostrzewski. We've also obtained an audio recording and transcript of a court hearing where the prosecutor was asked by the judge to explain what the case at hand was about, the prosecutor went on to explain the facts of the case as well as the involvement of the co defendants in the alleged crime. We haven't been able to determine whether posting that audio recording here is permissible or not, we'll have to hold off on posting that information until we get a legal opinion on that matter. What I did do though was forward that recording and the transcript to several prominent attorneys to get their point of view on the prosecutors performance so far. Let's see what Attorney Arthur Kirkland had to say about the prosecutors case so far...

DOH! We needed a little levity, the tone of the blog has been far too serious lately. Serious stuff coming tomorrow, we're going to reexamine the "probation is not an option" quote from a few weeks back.