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Brickbat: Catfishing

Charles Oliver | 10.28.2013 6:00 AM


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.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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