Brickbat: Catfishing

The Cuyahoga County, Ohio, prosceutor's office has fired assistant prosecutor Aaron Brockler after he admitted posing as a woman online to try to get alibi witnesses to change their testimony in a murder case. Brockler posed as a former girlfriend of the accused on Facebook and told the two witnesses, both women, that he'd had a child with the man. He claims both women then recanted their stories.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The ATF has a position for this guy.

[Ted S.]

The first time I read the headline, I thought it said "Catfisting". Yikes.

[RBS]

Catfisting

[UnCivilServant]

Just fired, no charges of suborning purjury? Isn't that what he did? Otherwise he'd have enough evidence to charge the alibi witnesses with purjury themselves.

[Zakalwe]

If they went around charging alibi witnesses who recanted they'd never get anyone to do it. It's seems possible he found out the truth through shady/disallowed methods.

[some guy]

It's seems possible he found out the truth through shady/disallowed methods.

Or maybe they were telling the truth and only lied after they got pissed off at the accused. We'll never know. This kind of tactic is like torture: Only a fool would trust any information it generated.

[UnCivilServant]

I have to agree with sone guy. Either the witnesses were lying to begin with, in which case the 'why couldn't he charge them with purjury' question stands, or his actions caused them to start to lie, in which case he was suborning purjury. Either way, the strategm will never yield reliable information, and in of itself should get the prosecutor thrown in prison for his malfeasance.

[Troy muy grande boner]

So someone has already file a complaint with the state bar, right?