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Charges against detective show justice' slow track for law-enforcement defendants

• The Oregonian

....The 47-year-old detective is expected to plead guilty in Marion County Circuit Court to a felony charge of first-degree forgery and a misdemeanor count of first-degree official misconduct. The charges stem from allegations that Steele destroyed photos that could have been favorable to Pedersen's defense, lied in an affidavit to a federal judge about receiving the photos, failed to turn over evidence to prosecutors and the defense, collected confidential legal phone calls between Pedersen and his defense team and otherwise so severely botched the integrity of the investigation that the case nearly crumbled. This, despite the fact that both Pedersen and Grigsby admitted multiple times to murdering the four victims ....


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