An Orange County sheriff's sergeant once named deputy of the year is accused of intentionally listening in on calls between an inmate he'd help put in jail and the attorney fighting his case. abc7marc has the full story.
Deep inside the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, inmate Taylor Camu-Ferguson was having what were supposed to be privileged and confidential phone calls with his defense attorney Jon Andersen.
Orange County Public Defender Scott Sanders, who initially uncovered the Orange County Jail informant scandal in 2014, pieced together what appeared to be a damning tale centered on Dep. Matthew LeFlore. Plus, LeFlore's own log notes show that he listened to at least five recordings of calls between Andersen and Camu-Ferguson. Those calls were just a few of the thousands of private attorney-client conversations that were accidentally recorded in what's been described as a software glitch in 2015.
"This is a telephone communication between attorney/client and any attempts to record, monitor, listen in to this conversation is a felony," Andersen is heard saying in one piece of audio from a call.In LeFlore's search warrant affidavit, he wrote that he saw Camu-Ferguson and another man were "moving items between two vehicles," including "two printer/scanner combos.
"When the defendant went back into custody, LeFlore starts accessing those calls, the same lawyer, and that's the only lawyer whose calls are accessed by LeFlore," said Sanders. "So, there's no chance in the world is where these weren't targeted calls." On the witness stand last year in a different case LeFlore investigated, he was asked if he listened to those confidential calls. He testified saying he didn't remember.
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