Overview
- Lisa and Germayne Cunningham, released Monday with ankle monitors, can live together in Maricopa County and have supervised video or phone contact with their two youngest children.
- The months-long trial was halted after internal Goodyear police records showed long-running failures in the department’s evidence-tracking software that cast doubt on chain of custody.
- Judge Patricia Starr said the unresolved evidence problems and ongoing delay could lead to dismissal of charges or result in a mistrial.
- Prosecutors said they are alerting other offices that Goodyear cases may include evidence issues that must be disclosed to defendants.
- An evidentiary hearing has been requested but not set, and the court has not given jurors a return date as it weighs whether the case can proceed.