Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patrick Connolly sought to disqualify a fellow justice from ruling on the resentencing of a convicted cop killer. Legal experts say the move is nearly unprecedented and deeply concerning.
The two were drawn into each other’s orbit last year, when Flint’s resentencing petition landed in Lowenthal’s court. While preparing to argue against the petition, Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Murray discovered a transcript of an interview between Long Beach police investigators and a confidential informant named Glenn Gosnell that was conducted months after the shooting, court records show.An L.A. Superior Court judge was admonished for a third time Friday by a judicial watchdog group.
Connolly presented the Gosnell interview to the judge presiding over Flint’s initial trial, who decided it did not need to be turned over. But earlier this year, Lowenthal disagreed. “It is time to build a better and fairer system. One that reallocates money from our prison system and invests in jobs, health and education. One that prioritizes diversion,” Lowenthal wrote in 2020, in the messages Connolly alleged show bias. “One that stops using prisons to deal with poverty and mental illness. And one that stops imposing absurdly long prison sentences that lack a public safety rationale.
In court, Murray also questioned whether Lowenthal had the legal option to weigh the Brady issue, but Lowenthal rejected her argument, records show. “It seemed like a stretch, and even with respect to the prejudging comments, it seems to me highly unlikely that any judge that did not have a stake in the case would ever raise that as a potential basis for disqualification,” Cummings said.
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