Overview
- The judge halted the six-month trial and began planning evidentiary hearings that could decide a mistrial, with the jury not expected back before April 13.
- The defendants were released to electronic monitoring after roughly seven and a half years in jail.
- Detective Noah Yeo reported evidence logs with wrong times, entries that showed items as destroyed when they were not, and staff edits made to match police reports.
- Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said her office is very concerned and has alerted defense lawyers and other prosecutors that cases tied to Goodyear evidence may be affected.
- Goodyear asked Chandler police to run an administrative probe, placed a property-and-evidence employee on leave, cited a 99.99% internal audit, and hired an outside firm to review the unit starting in April.