I can't get over the outrageous prosecutorial misconduct in the Dana Chandler case. The tragedy in all this is Chandler is guilty of double murder, but the state completely and totally fucked up.
The link is a year old, but it spells out what happened with the prosecution. The chief prosecutor should be disbarred for making shit up to get a conviction.
The Chandler case is a classic case of the police falling down on the job and not picking up evidence at the scene of the crime including wine bottles and cigarette butts for DNA. They just walked all over the crime scene, contaminating it. What fucking incompetence. This is why Chandler got away with the murders for so long.
It's possible she will get away with it again in a new trial, thanks to prosecutorial fucking up in this first trial. However, she is representing herself, so she might not.
From the year-old link, which sums up what happened with the case:
The Supreme Court’s powerful legal microscope has eerily pivoted beyond actions attributed to Chandler to the work of Spradling and, to a lesser extent, Taylor. During oral argument of Chandler’s appeal, members of the Supreme Court offered withering critiques of actions by the prosecution during the 2012 trial. A majority of the court invited Spradling to rebut allegations of misconduct.
Three justices fixated on the same point. They were distressed Spradling told the trial jury that Sisco secured a court protective order in 1998 to shield him from Chandler. Spradling referenced this supposed order in a written brief to the Supreme Court and offered a puzzling defense of the assertion in person.
Probably the reason Sisco and Harkness didn't get protective orders against Chandler is because Chandler lived 500 miles away, in Colorado. They might have also felt a restraining order wouldn't have stopped her anyway.
This is as bad as it gets for prosecutors. Spradling herself should have gone to jail for this.
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