Saturday, May 9, 2020

"Recording suspects is his hobby, Your Honor, an innocent hobby."

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 themmore