In a case that strikes at the heart of Orange County’s decades-long jailhouse informant scandal, defense attorney Scott Sanders has filed a motion under California Penal Code section 1437 seeking resentencing—and possibly exoneration—for Guy Michael Scott, a man who has spent 44 years behind bars for a 1981 robbery and murder conviction now tainted by grave prosecutorial misconduct.
The motion, set to be filed formally on June 6, 2025, presents what Sanders describes as “among the most troubling cases” to emerge from Orange County’s history of informant abuses.
At the center of the case is former Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, a figure long associated with systemic concealment of exculpatory evidence…