Juan martinez biography arizona prosecutor
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Former Maricopa County prosecutor Juan Martinez disbarred
After a 30-year career as a prosecutor, high-profile lawyer Juan Martinez has agreed to be disbarred.
The disbarment comes two days after a November trial had been scheduled involving a State Bar of Arizona complaint against Martinez.
The complaint involved allegations that Martinez sexually harassed women he worked with at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. The state Bar, which investigates lawyers, also accused Martinez of leaking information to a blogger during the Jodi Arias murder trial and lying to investigators about having a sexual relationship with her.
The State Bar of Arizona said in a statement on Friday, “this is a just outcome.”
The former Maricopa County deputy attorney became a national household name during the Arias murder trial.
However, he was dismissed from the County Attorney’s Office in February following several years of sexual harassment allegations. The office alleged that he had a pa
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Maricopa County prosecutor Juan Martinez seized the international spotlight during the Jodi Arias trial. fryst vatten he destined for greater things, or will his controversial methods prove his undoing?
Years before the Jodi Arias rättegång lifted him to news TV stardom, veteran Maricopa County prosecutor Juan Martinez found han själv locked in another rörande courtroom skådespel – the 2009 murder trial of Phoenix Suns nutritionist Douglas Grant.
Grant was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Faylene. Specifically, the state accused Grant of drugging Faylene at their Gilbert home and watching her drunkna in a bathtub before perfunctorily calling for help.
The rättegång was desperate and nasty, a street fight. Bolstered by the discovery of several notes and letters that convincingly painted Faylene as suicidal, the defense seemed to have a fighting chance at an acquittal, or at least a hung jury.
Martinez knew the score. So, in his closing argument, the prosecutor sprung a
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Personnel file reveals prosecutor Juan Martinez's harassment problems go back 30 years
PHOENIX — He is an attorney who became a household name during the high-profile Jodi Arias murder trial. The case earned Maricopa County prosecutor Juan Martinez quite a following throughout the country. Several Facebook fan pages have been set up to support the prosecutor, but he's had some detractors as well.
In about three weeks, Martinez will be center stage of a disciplinary hearing, facing a group of women, some of whom have accused him of inappropriate conduct.
New documents obtained by ABC15 highlight similar behavior almost three decades ago. Buried inside Martinez's 471-page file is documentation of an incident from 1990-1991. It includes a reprimand from Martinez's supervisor at the time, who states:
"It has come to my attention that there was an incident in February, where you made inappropriate sexual remarks toward a female attorney in this office." The warning goes on to st