“The District Attorney’s pattern of neglect reveals an urgent and serious need for the District Attorney to modify its discovery practices.”
11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley
The judge then found a similar violation had occurred in the murder case before her and ordered that the first-degree murder charge against defendant Joseph Tippet be reduced to a second-degree murder charge as a sanction for prosecutors’ misconduct. In the Tippet murder case, prosecutors said the discovery violations were due to errors by support staff, changes in the prosecutors assigned to the case and poor communication with law enforcement agencies. The judge found high staff turnover and a lack of training and oversight contributed to the failures.
Stanley did not return a request for comment Monday. She was elected in 2020 and took office in 2021 as the top prosecutor in the 11th Judicial District, which includes Chaffee, Custer, Fremont and Park counties.
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