If they held of their part of the bargain, I did mine, I delivered. When I worked with informants or cooperating citizens, my word was my bond. What specifically made the AUSA decide to file and prosecute young Sexton? If the FBI and AUSA played hardball with Sexton over the wire and ONLY the wire issue, and, if so, “used him,” and milked him and then screwed him by filing charges, that truly is beyond the pale. On that note, does anyone know factually, what information was the FBI seeking? What were they investigating or suspicious of between those two? With that said, what unreasonable expectation did the FBI have that they would instruct young Sexton to wear a wire against his father? That is beyond reasonable, it is incredulous to attempt to force that move.Ĭeleste, perhaps only you can answer this question.

The only thing I am able to gather is he refused to wire-up to record his father and Baca. Based on reporting, it appears Sexton cooperated with the FBI as evidenced by his repeated meetings, updates and GJ appearances. I do not know Sexton, but I understand he went to the FBI with a coworker during the infancy stages of this stupid operation.

I have followed Pandora’s Box as closely as possible while working and after my retirement a few months ago. Photo of Sexton and wife taken in 2014 after sentencing. Sexton is expected to be a crucial witness for the prosecution in the February retrial of former four-term LA County sheriff Lee Baca. He was the first of the eight who have been sentenced for obstruction of justice convictions to surrender. Sexton surrendered to begin his original 18 month sentence on August 31, 2016. Marshall’s office early Thursday evening and bring him home.Īt 25, Sexton was the youngest and lowest on the departmental ladder of the eight people convicted of obstruction of justice (plus a ninth who accepted a plea deal and his yet to be sentenced) for attempts in August and September of 2011 to block a federal investigation into corruption and brutality in LA County’s jail system with actions that included hiding a federal informant from his FBI handlers, falsely threatening an FBI agent with arrest, and tampering with potential federal witnesses. Sexton’s wife was permitted to pick up Sexton, now 32, from the U.S.

District Court Judge Percy Anderson ruled that former LA County sheriff’s deputy, James Sexton, who was sentenced in December 2014 to 18 months in a federal prison after being convicted of obstruction of justice, could be released into six months of home detention followed by another six months of formal probation. In a surprise decision at a Thursday afternoon hearing, U.S.

Release by A.M. Sexton