By Monica Alonzo | Phoenix New Times
An attorney is demanding that ABC 15 retract a story accusing her clients — two Arizona police officers — of making mistakes during investigations that prompted the Pinal County Attorney’s Office to drop those cases
Television reporter Navideh Forghani, reporting on how former Florence police detectives Jarris Varnrobinson and Walt Hunter handled a 2012 rape case, told viewers that there were five other cases the county attorney’s office had to drop because of the officers’ mistakes.
Attorney Lynne Bernabei, representing the cops, wrote to ABC 15 News Director Pat Costello demanding “a retraction of the false and unsupported statements about Mr. Hunter and Mr. Varnrobinson made in the story, which Ms. Forghani knew were false, or which she made with reckless disregard for the truth.”
