Private investigator charged with filing fraudulent documents for Calif. death row inmates | www.azstarnet.com ®: "The state attorney general charged a private investigator Wednesday with filing false court documents on behalf of four death row inmates, calling the case one of the largest frauds in California's criminal justice system.
Kathleen Culhane, 40, was arraigned Wednesday on 45 felony counts of forgery, filing false documents and perjury.
'This is fraud at the highest level,' said Michael Farrell, senior assistant attorney general. 'This is someone who is trying to undermine the system.'
Culhane was a staff investigator for the Habeas Corpus Resource Center in three of the cases and for an inmate's attorneys in the fourth. Her job was to find jurors and witnesses and get them to sign papers that could be used in the inmates' defense or requests for clemency.
The charges against Culhane allege that she prepared false documents and forged signatures on papers that were then turned over to the inmates' attorneys and filed with the courts and the governor."
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