Sheriff’s detectives “fabricated reports, hid exculpatory evidence and intimidated witnesses from telling the truth,” lawsuit claims. DA still insists the men are not innocent.
Attorney Annee Della Donna, center, with Juan Rayford, left, holding his daughter Shai, 1, and Dupree Glass, with his children Pree, 2 months, and Amill, 1, in Laguna Beach on his Saturday, August 5, 2023. Della Donna got the falsely convicted men freed from prison after they served nearly 17 years for attempted murder.
“The defendants are not actually innocent,” said court papers filed by the district attorney as part of the criminal proceedings. “The motion’s principal claim — that two key trial witnesses lied under oath — is false. … Respondent has not lost confidence in this conviction.” Attorneys for Rayford and Glass wrote that the witness was ready to recant her testimony, but was warned by a sheriff’s investigator — who by then was retired and living in another state — that she could be criminally charged if she changed her story.The suit says sheriff’s investigators failed to interview nearly a dozen key witnesses who were at the scene and would have told them that Rayford and Dupree were not the shooters.
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