REDWOOD CITY -- Superior Court Judge Alfred A. Delucchi this morning issued a sharp rebuke to the Modesto Police Department for violating a gag order in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial.
The violation came Friday when Sgt. Ed Steele, in an interview with The Associated Press, defended Detective Al Brocchini’s conduct in the investigation. Brocchini took the witness stand Tuesday of last week; cross-examination started Wednesday and continued this morning.
Thursday, Brocchini testified that he removed key information from a police report.
“The information he’s alluding to was not omitted,” Steele told the AP. “The information is actually documented in a report by another detective. That’s why (Brocchini) left it out of his report.”
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