Santa Clara County District Attorney

Misconduct

UPDATE 2016: Those confused by the Brock Turner verduct

should not be. Mike Armstrong is also a Stanford Graduate.
Stanford has a history of protecting their own. See case below
involving Mike Armstrong committing in our mind, malpractice, for
stipulating a woman who reported child sexual abuse by a
Stanford Professor, stipulate to a 10 year restraining order. Also,
never trust Mercury News reporter, Tracey Kaplan. Kaplan
forwards negative information about Armstrong, directly to him.

UPDATE: The public should be aware Palo Alto PD continues their

efforts to protect men accused of molesting children...and
perhaps cooridinating efforts against those reporting these types
of crimes.
For that effort, the police can rely Prosecutor Deborah Medved,
(who has a past history in withholding evidence) whose job
includes ginning up efforts to support her self-describe job title of
"verticial prosecution" of cases involving children....while later
claiming she did not see evidence that would prove there was no
case against one woman in particular, Anneliese Barron, who
originally followed the suggestions of Palo Alto PD. We see the
case as a valuable lesson in government based, misogyny - and
the women who willingly participate.

See below.

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 May 2, 2014.

Bizarre ending. The Restitution order was final today; with DA saying
she will modify restraining order to allow Barron to return to work.
Judge Toff said he didn't think a ten year restraining order that names
Barron's children (which Barron's attorney stipulated to in chambers
unbeknownst to Barron - which strikes us as malpractice) would
preclude Barron from regaining custody of her children. (We are
waiting for a transcript.) Oh, and the father of Barron's youngest, who
was fired from his employment, today served an Ex-parte order so he
can return to Georgia...with their child. He has no job, and no means
for support except for Barron, so he's hanging on for dear life.

April 6, 2014: Is Prosecutor Misconduct a national problem? Perhaps.

Bronx judge (and former DA) the Honorable Judge John Wilson
banished ADA Megan Teesdale from ever appearing in his courtroom,
after it was revealed Teesdale withheld evidence in a case...that never
should have been brought to trial.

Consider the case of ADA Deborah Reece Medved, whose LinkedIn

profile reveals her job is listed as "Vertical prosecution of child
abduction and family violence."

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 Certainly one form of job security is withholding evidence (such as in
the Barron case), a return plane ticket and text messages that might
shield a subsequent bogus prosecution. No wonder Medved and her
supervisor were in the Judge's chambers pleading he rule Medved
didn't commit misconduct. Likewise no surprise Medved didn't want to
turn over text messages of one of Barron's accusers.

However, how many times can Medved realistically claim she never
"looked" at evidence...sitting on her desk for months?

More importantly, given Medved's prior job was to protect children,

how is it Medved didn't insist Palo Alto Police Department get the
computer laptop the male suspect refused to turn over in a custody
case? How is it the DA's office didn't insist on investigating fully, the
laptop?
On March 21, 2014, Personnel from the DA's office showed up in court

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 today, a bit nervous and intent to make sure the record reflected the
Prosecutorial Misconduct allegation is from the Defendant, not her
attorney.

For this supervisor Hendricks showed up, with the DA investigator.

That would be the same DA investigator who didn't reveal to the judge
in his request for an arrest warrant, that Barron had a return ticket from
Hawaii. Today though, Hendricks opted not to meet in chambers. But
Hendricks, Medved and the DA investigator should be nervous. Santa
Clara has a long history of prosecutorial misconduct, for which the
State Bar might want to delve into, as obvious questions, remain.

Question: How is is DA Deborah Reece Medved had access to so much

exculpatory information that she claims not to have viewed? Perhaps
the defense attorney could ask this during the May 2nd, hearing. As the
video on the right reveals, what may be presenting itself, is yet another
case of a police indifference to crimes against children, followed
shortly thereafter by a systematic plan to shoot the messenger with a
little help from the DA.

On that note, will PA PD ever demand the father's laptop be turned over
to them so they can at long last, conduct a thorough investigation?

One key question remains: Was David Angel, head of the PR vibed,
"Conviction Integrity Unit" aware two DAs met with Judge Ronald
Toff in chambers for the express purpose of asking Judge Toff to
make a finding (absent a hearing) of no prosecutorial misconduct in the
Barron case?

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 When that failed, both begged Judge Toff to not identify the upcoming
hearing to address the alleged misconduct, as a misconduct hearing.

(The matter came up after it was discovered evidence had not been
turned over to the defense.)

What happened after Barron made a written complaint to David Angel

regarding the DAs double-team, in-chambers meeting effort? Word
is Deborah Reece Medved's supervisor, Cindy Hendrickson, called
Barron's criminal defense attorney, Mike Armstrong with the news the
DA's office was going to ignore Barron's complaint because it came
directly from Barron. This was followed by a letter from outside
counsel stating the DA's office was doing a great job. Will Armstrong
take the appropriate action to protect his client?

Perhaps. So far though, Armstrong's zealous advocacy could best be

described as "lackluster." So time will tell. How? If this hearing on
Misconduct disappears, then we'll know. Also, it remains to be seen if
the missing evidence will find its way into the hands of the defense.

March 10, 2014

We received the below from Annelise Barron and are posting without
comment.

"Dear Mr. Angel,

The reason for this letter is to inform you that on February 21, 2014,
ADA Deborah Reece Medved's supervisor, Ms. Cindy Hendrickson,

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 appeared with Ms. Medved in Judge Ronald Toff's chambers, and
attempted to convince the judge to make an immediate finding that no
prosecutorial misconduct had occurred--with no facts in support
before him, no hearing, and without me, the complaintant, having an
opportunity to respond substantively. The matter was not even on
calendar!

Moreover, in chambers, Ms. Hendrickson and Ms. Medved asked Judge

Toff not to refer to my complaint in open court as relating to possible
"prosecutorial misconduct", when he stated for the record the
scheduled March 21 hearing on that matter.

These in-chambers machinations represent continued prosecutorial

misconduct, separate from the prosecutor's ongoing withholding
exculpatory evidence. Judge Toff went along with Ms. Hendrickson's
second request, but not her first. This is just FYI; you can confirm the
facts of what occurred with Mr. Armstrong.

Thank you for your kind attention to this matter. Please contact my
defense attorney, Mr. Michael W. Armstrong, to let us know when we
can expect to receive your response.

Annelise Barron"

March 3, 2014

Citing confidentiality, Palo Alto PD Sex Crime Investigative officials

declined to confirm whether they knew prior to completing their report,

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 the named suspect refused to turn over his laptop computer to Jeffrey
Kline, the forensics expert hired to assess the claims made.

Somehow the claims repeatedly made by Barron's kids have been lost
in the shuffle of yet another claim alleging prosecutor misconduct.
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Lets begin with the kicker:

How twisted is family to criminal court?

This twisted.

On February 21, 2014, Santa Clara Deputy District Attorney Deborah

Medved wanted Judge Toff to rule Medved had not withheld evidence
in the Annelise Barron case....after withholding evidence.

But good news, Judge Toff, declined. New hearing on that issue is
scheduled for March 21, 2014.

Readers should be aware when it comes to issues with withholding

evidence - this isn't Deborah Medved's first rodeo.

That's how twisted, family to criminal court, cases become. Including

experts hired to write custody evaluations who refused to read police
reports. Names will be named as soon as they are verified.

Minor's counsel doesn't believe child's repeated claims of abuse by

father. Seemingly, Palo Alto Police don't investigate, (but recommend

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 the hiring of multiple experts to opine.)

However, Mom doesn't mind signing stipulation to not report crimes,

because both kids have been reporting crimes to teachers and others
"mandated to report" for years.

Not that reporting has helped. March 21st is the date of the next
hearing to determine if Deputy DA Deborah Medved's had a role in
withholding evidence benefiting Barron.

So the bottom line is another family court case goes South, after
married mom Annelise Barron reported intra-family crime:

She immediately divorces the person she feels is responsible, but

then...the plot thickens! Two unhappy men work together and voila,

Annelise Barron winds up the focus, of a criminal investigation. Case

about the kids? Nope. Goes no where.

Sadly, that's par. However, not mentioned in newspaper reports? Part

of Barron's quirky behavior was the result of a reaction to a medication
mixup.

Note the report which included less than stellar police work, from Palo
Alto PD Detective, Anjanette Holler.

"Given that (Barron) and Audino completely stopped using their

cellphones ... we strongly believed that Barron's intention was to flee
with the kids and shut off all possible contact," Detective Anjanette

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 Holler of the Palo Alto Police Department wrote in a report"

the obvious question - what was it about Barron's RETURN TICKET,

that confused Holler wasn't asked.

Enter the frankly weird, Deputy DA, Deborah Reece Medved.

Reece, (or Medved) wants a restraining order too! But
not just any restraining order.

(We wondered if Reece Medved thought was Judge Toff

having a special that day?)

See Page 18 - DA Deborah Reece (Medved) requests a ten year

restraining order for herself.

(Defense counsel....was...was present? Does this mean the DA would

have to recuse herself so she wouldn't be near Barron? Or, could she
get over her terrible fearfulness just for court?)

So we telephoned Deborah Reece Medved to ask why she uses two

names. Her response was "How did you get my phone number, who
are you."

We repeated our name and again asked Deborah Reece Medved the
reason for her two names. She refused to respond.

On Feb. 21, Annelise Barron will be back in court. As will DA Deborah

Reece or Medved. Perhaps with yet another name!

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