The photograph of Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies looks like a team picture, with grinning officers showing off their guns and gear in front of the agency’s armored personnel carrier.

Prosecutors and the man indicted in the Barrington Estates slayings in Mesa are heading toward a courtroom showdown over a fundamental concept of American justice: A suspect’s right to know what evidence his accusers have on him.

Prosecutors and the man indicted in the Barrington Estates slayings in Mesa are heading toward a courtroom showdown over a fundamental concept of American justice: A suspect’s right to know what evidence his accusers have on him.

Information obtained by a legislative task force formed in response to "Rigged Privilege," a Tribune investigative series in August that examined Arizona's school tuition organizations, has school choice advocates asking whether the series was rigged.

The Scottsdale Police Department must try to contact the owners of confiscated property before selling or destroying it, under a proposed city ordinance mandated to repair numerous faults in its storage and tracking of evidence.

The Scottsdale Police Department must try to contact the owners of confiscated property before selling or destroying it, under a proposed city ordinance mandated to repair numerous faults in its storage and tracking of evidence.

The department purchased a computerized records management system in the late 1990s to take over an evidence database that still required invoices to be filled out by hand, said Steve Garrett, crime laboratory manager.

December 17, 2004

December 19, 2004

Scottsdale ordinances regarding the disposal of unneeded evidence violate state law in several instances and likely allowed the destruction of property that should have been returned to its owners, a city audit released last week states.

The second-in-command for Maricopa County Superior Court’s criminal division denied a request Wednesday morning that he recuse himself from all cases involving the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

A laundry list of failures in how the Scottsdale Police Department maintained and documented evidence has largely been corrected, according to a report produced by police officials earlier this month.

April 10, 2005

December 16, 2004

A city audit has found that the Scottsdale Police Department for years has failed to adequately maintain and document evidence stored in rental facilities.

I am writing about the not-so-thoughtful letter from gun (lover) Arthur C. Peterson: “What kind of country do you want?” I’d like to live in a country where so-called law-abiding citizens do not have access to weapons of war like AK 47’s that are designed to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible. I also certainly don’t want to live in a country where citizens are allowed to possess chemical or biological weapons like Peterson advocated.

We are still free. For the most part. For now.

Hells Angels members arrested in December as part of a multistate raid, including two men accused of killing a Mesa woman, likely won’t be tried until spring 2005.

LONDON (AP) -- Hours of closed-circuit television footage to scrutinize, tons of debris to sift through, small traces of explosives to examine. British investigators - their skills honed by anti-terror work from decades of Irish Republican Army bombings - find themselves at the start of a daunting task to track down those responsible for Thursday's deadly explosions in London.

Stacked in police warehouses across the Valley, there are thousands of rape cases with DNA samples that have never been tested, an ABC15 Investigation found.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the USA Patriot Act is constitutional, rejecting a claim by a former Navy sailor charged with supporting terrorism that evidence against him was illegally obtained.

The Tucson man whose recklessness killed three men on Scottsdale Road should be behind bars forever, but he got a plea offer of 15 years in prison because of evidence problems in the case, the county’s top prosecutor said Tuesday.

It was a day of grueling forensic testimony as the Jodi Arias murder trial continued on Tuesday in Phoenix.

December 3, 2004