BURLEIGH COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE UNTRUTHFUL REGARDING INVESTIGATION OF DAVID SPENCER ISSUES
Cynthia Feland is basing her attorney ethics defense on her assertion that not turning over evidence to a defendant was an "accident", an "oversight", an "ommission". That claim is characteristic of a pattern frequently employed that might best be described as itself is one of her Prosecutor Prevarication Proclivity (PPP) techniques.
The Burleigh County State’s Attorney’s Office (BCSAO) added three additional criminal items to the Charles (Sandy) Blunt criminal charges just prior to Blunt’s trial in December of 2008.
The trial judge questioned the validity of adding these items as probable cause to charge must be established in a hearing before the trial.
BCSAO avoided probable cause examination by making the false claim that the charges that Blunt had illegally allowed former Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) employee David Spencer to get paid for sick leave when he was not sick, Blunt did not seek to obtain half of the relocation moving expenses from Spencer due because Spencer had allegedly resigned “voluntarily” from WSI, committing monies to the North Dakota State Fire Fighter’s Association without proper authorization/authority.
BCSAO falsely assured trial judge Bruce Romanick that the sick leave, moving expenses, and Fire Fighter’s Grant had been part of the investigation from “day one” and “the get-go”.
BCSAO did not have any idea that these issues existed and much less were possibly illegal until months after the August 2007 preliminary hearing.
BCSAO has repeatedly perpetrated this lie to the North Dakota Supreme Court and Judge Romanick.
Judge Cynthia Feland reiterated this lie numerous times during her June 2011 attorney ethics trial and in the proceedings leading up to that trial.
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