CA - An Alameda County sheriff's sergeant
pleaded no contest this week to four misdemeanor eavesdropping counts
for recording conversations between juvenile suspects and their
attorneys in 2018.
The plea agreement for Sgt. James Russell, who originally was charged
with four felony counts, calls for him to be placed on 3
years'
probation and perform 180 hours of community service...
Odbert (Russsell's attorney) said at the hearing that Russell wasn't present when
the recording began and had no intent of using the conversations between
Plaine and the juveniles as a way of building a case against them. more