CA Explosives Suspect: Feds Ruined My Defense When They Burned Down My House | Talking Points Memo

George Djura Jakubec, a resident of San Diego County accused of having a “bomb factory” inside his home, is asking for a dismissal of the eight counts against him. He argues that “potentially exculpatory evidence” was destroyed when officials burned down his house, which they deemed too dangerous to enter because they said it still had explosives inside.In a filing from March 3, Jakubec’s attorney Michael S. Berg argued that “neither defense counsel nor his investigator were allowed an opportunity to enter the home to retrieve potentially exculpatory evidence,” nor were they provided with an inventory of the evidence that was retrieved.


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