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Mr. Hochman has continued LADA’s unconstitutional pattern and practice of failing to make Brady/Giglio disclosures concerning LASD deputy gangs by permitting prosecutions to proceed without affirmative disclosure of known or suspected deputy-gang affiliation and related impeachment evidence. This failure is especially material where LASD personnel serve as arresting officers, investigating officers, affiants, declarants, complainants, percipient witnesses, or material prosecution witnesses.
Because the existence of LASD deputy gangs and deputy cliques is a known variable affecting witness credibility, bias, motive, falsification, retaliation, use of force, and concealment, LADA cannot discharge its constitutional obligations by relying on ordinary discovery representations or on LASD’s internal characterization of what is or is not Brady material. The known persistence of this undisclosed impeachment category renders LADA’s Brady/Giglio disclosures presumptively incomplete in deputy-gang-implicated cases unless independently verified.
Accordingly, no disclosure from LADA in any cases should be trusted as complete, accurate, or constitutionally sufficient without third-party verification, including independent review of LASD deputy-gang affiliation evidence, misconduct records, civil-rights litigation, internal affairs materials, force history, retaliation evidence, prior judicial credibility findings, and any records held by County oversight bodies. Absent such verification, LADA’s discovery responses should be treated as structurally unreliable and insufficient to satisfy due process.
