- “The issues in Alameda County mirror ongoing debates elsewhere.” – Pamela Price
Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price release a new podcast episode this week, A Culture of Cheating and Lies, highlighting the systemic misconduct in capital cases and the ongoing constitutional crisis in California’s justice system.
Price said that during her tenure in 2024, her team uncovered and exposed a 30-year history of prosecutorial misconduct in Alameda County’s handling of death penalty cases. She described the discovery as evidence of “a culture of cheating and lies” in the office under the leadership of District Attorneys Tom Orloff, Nancy O’Malley and John J. Meehan.
The findings included juror notes showing that Black and Jewish jurors were systematically targeted for removal from death penalty juries. “The juror notes discovered in the files of Alameda County prosecutors clearly show that Black and Jewish jurors were targeted to be kicked off of death penalty juries,” Price said…