House says he got everything he’s entitled to
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times
The attorney for Don Shooter charged Wednesday that House leaders are illegally trying to hide the notes of investigators who prepared the report that led to his ouster on charges of sexual harassment.
Kraig Marton told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen that his client is entitled not jut to the final report on the investigation but also to everything from the notes and interviews the outside investigators conducted to any earlier drafts of the report.
“You don’t get to take down a man and make it very public and hide behind the privilege as if that’s somehow is OK,” Marton said.
But Gregory Falls, who represents the House and the two attorneys hired by Speaker J.D. Mesnard to conduct the probe, argued to Cohen that Shooter got everything he was entitled to: the 86-page report and more than 300 pages of supplemental findings, all of which were made public. Anything else, Falls said, is legally exempt from disclosure under either the attorney-client privilege or the concept that a lawyer’s “work product” is protected.
