An ethics board just lately argued that the prosecutor who jailed an harmless man for the 2001 homicide of Chandra Levy ought to lose her license for 60 days, RadarOnline.com has realized.
In a sensational growth to come back greater than 22 years after Levy disappeared in Might 2001, the District of Columbia Board on Skilled Accountability filed a 53-page report on Monday.
The board argued that Amanda Haines, the Washington, D.C. federal prosecutor who charged and convicted Ingmar Guandique for Levy’s homicide in 2010, dedicated “grave” skilled misconduct and will subsequently lose her regulation license for 60 days, in accordance with Reuters.
The District of Columbia Board on Skilled Accountability additionally argued that Haines “didn’t uphold her duties” to “well timed disclose proof” to the protection attorneys who represented Guandique practically 15 years in the past.
“[Haines] failed to judge the proof, as required by case regulation, from the angle of protection counsel,” the committee wrote on Monday.
In the meantime, Haines’ lawyer insisted that the now-retired prosecutor was “harmless” and so they had been “inspired by the Board’s discovering that Ms. Haines didn’t commit intentional misconduct and its determination to scale back the proposed penalty.”
A listening to committee initially beneficial a 90-day license suspension for Haines final 12 months for “withholding data from Guandique’s protection attorneys” about “a key witness’ prior interplay with regulation enforcement,” however the District of Columbia Board on Skilled Accountability proposed a shorter license suspension on Monday.
“At worst, Haines made a mistake,” Haines’ lawyer, Sarah Fink, wrote in a response submitting. “What she didn’t do was deliberately suppress proof.”
Susan Levy, Chandra Levy’s mom, refuted Condit’s claims.
“There was positively one thing occurring between my daughter and him,” Susan Levy instructed Individuals in October 2016.
Levy’s homicide case remained unsolved till 2009 when Haines and fellow Washington, D.C. federal prosecutor Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez charged Guandique for the 24-year-old intern’s homicide.