Ken Starr sent fake juror letter to CA gov in effort to gain

[Anonymous]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184564,00.html

Prosecutors: Jury's Morales Letters Faked  
Saturday, February 11, 2006
 
SAN FRANCISCO ? Lawyers for a death row inmate, including former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, sent fake letters from jurors asking California's governor to spare the man's life, prosecutors said Friday.

The jurors denied they thought Michael Morales deserved clemency because some of the testimony at his trial may have been fabricated, said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

"We showed each person the declaration on their behalf and they all said they didn't say that," Barankin said.

San Joaquin County prosecutor Charles Schultz also said the letters sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week were "untrue" and "pure fiction."

Starr was not immediately available for comment, said a spokeswoman for the Pepperdine School of Law, where Starr is the dean.

Morales' other clemency attorney, David Senior from Los Angeles, said he stood by the validity of the six sworn statements he and Starr sent to the governor. He suggested that the jurors might have gotten cold feet when they were contacted by prosecutors in the last two days.

"When the D.A. and A.G. show up with badges and guns and say whatever, they can intimidate a lot of people and that's their game," Senior said.

On Friday, the San Joaquin District Attorney's office sent Schwarzenegger a new batch of sworn statements from five of those jurors saying they not only still supported capital punishment for Morales, but had never spoken with the defense investigator who claimed to have secured their signatures.

Kathleen Culhane, the San Francisco private investigator who Starr and Senior said had interviewed the jurors, declined to comment.

None of the five jurors involved in the legal tug-of-war, whose names were blacked out of the competing clemency documents to protect their privacy, could immediately be reached for comment.

Morales is scheduled to be executed Feb. 21 for the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in San Joaquin County 25 years ago.

Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Margita Thompson declined to address the dispute, saying only that the governor, when deciding on clemency, will consider "all the information that is provided to him when making the decision."

[Anonymous]

So he is willing to lie in order to save a man's life?

Give this man a medal.

[Anonymous]

On 2006-02-12 08:32:00, Anonymous wrote:

"So he is willing to lie in order to save a man's life?



Give this man a medal."

No, he's willing to lie to win.  Wonder what other little tricks he's used in the past in a certain high profile case?  :roll:

[Anonymous]

The Monica Lewinsky scandal was just cover for greater crimes.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCH ... oster.html

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCH ... /mena.html


"Ken Starr has been a part of the government drug cartel since he was assistant to William French Smith, the Reagan AG who changed the rules under which the CIA operated, exempting them from reporting drug smuggling that took place in connection with intelligence operations. Critics have called this policy the CIA's "License to smuggle". The Reagan policy set the stage for Iran-Contra."

I agree he's a piece of shit, but another scandal about something like this won't bring the truth to the surface. I'm sure dems will love publically shaming him though 'as revenge' and such. Waste of time if you ask me. I'm more worried about Bushco at the moment.

[Anonymous]

On 2006-02-12 08:44:00, Anonymous wrote:

The Monica Lewinsky scandal was just cover for greater crimes

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I'm more worried about Bushco at the moment.

Me too, but I thought this was rather humorous.

[Anonymous]

Not-so-bright Starr

Downplaying of forged affidavits is appalling

February 18, 2006

While millions of Democrats loathe him for his role as the special prosecutor who sought President Clinton's impeachment, Kenneth Starr's basic competence has never seemed in doubt. That could change soon. His blithe reaction to the blatant forging of legal documents in a California death-penalty case he's involved in is dumbfounding.

Michael Morales is scheduled to be executed next week for the rape and murder in 1981 of a 17-year-old Lodi girl. Morales reportedly does not deny responsibility. But death penalty foes, seizing on new questions about the testimony of a jailhouse informant, have been lobbying Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency. They were helped when San Francisco investigator Kathleen Culhane produced affidavits from a prosecution witness at the original trial who said she had been coerced and from six jurors who said they supported clemency.

Starr, now the dean of Pepperdine University's law school, joined Morales' defense team last month. He touted the affidavits as making clemency a slam-dunk.

If they were real affidavits, Starr had a good case. Instead, by last week all but one had been exposed as obvious forgeries. Unsurprisingly, yesterday Schwarzenegger denied Morales clemency.

Starr's reaction to the discrediting of evidence he touted: He said ?I just don't know? if the affidavits are valid and griped about the focus on their forging.

So Starr, whose name is on the clemency filings, thinks it's a minor matter that these filings rely on grossly dishonest affidavits? Earth to Ken: You're shredding your own reputation.

We assume San Francisco police will investigate Culhane, but perhaps the State Bar of California should also take a look at Starr. A law school dean shouldn't try to laugh off legal fraud.