STEVE CATES: BLUNT DISCOVERY PREFERENTIALLY PROVIDED AND WITHHELD |
State's Attorney Richard Riha |
Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland |
Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr |
Prosecutors evidently separated the wheat from the chaff when providing discovery to defendant Sandy Blunt and gave him only the chaff. The Burleigh County State's Attorney's Office seem to have PREFERENTIALLY PROVIDED to and PREFERENTIALLY WITHHELD from Blunt materials from four criminal investigation reports authored by Special Agent (SA) Michael Quinn of the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) during the fall of 2007.
186 pages of documents that had little if anything to do with the question of the alleged crime were provided to the defendant. Four law enforcement reports and 142 pages as well as a 1.25 hour long audio recording were not provided. The withheld documents and recording were material to the charges and substantiated that the crime that Blunt was being tried for did not exist. And the Burleigh County prosecutors knew it!
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