Opinion ID: 2782925
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Undersheriff Roland’s Account

Text: Roland’s account is largely consistent with Plaintiff’s, although with less emphasis on Gorman’s concerns. Roland recalled that sometime in the first half of 2009 he spoke with Chief Deputy Rickey Whitby, who told him that AUSA Morehead had some kind of problem with Plaintiff’s credibility. Roland called Morehead, who confirmed that she had a problem with Plaintiff because of the Elam order. Morehead then sent Roland the order. Because Roland misplaced it, Morehead emailed him a second copy several months later, on June 29, 2009. It was prefaced with the following message: Here is the order from the federal case. They have the hearing transcript on order and I’ll forward that to you when we get it. I never knew about this ruling until I came over in 2002, but since I’ve been here, and before Max retired from KCKPD, we had several issues with him bungling investigations that he knew were going to be federal cases. 7 Id., Vol. V at 1188. Before Plaintiff was removed from investigations, Roland had a conversation with Gorman, who said that Plaintiff had a problem with Morehead and that he had a concern that there might be a credibility issue if his office received cases from Plaintiff. (Roland said that Ash met with Gorman regarding Plaintiff but could not recall if he himself attended.) The WCSD’s executive staff, including Roland and Ash, decided that Plaintiff should be removed from investigations, particularly because Morehead had said that federal prosecutors would not accept his cases. When Roland met with Plaintiff, he told him that he had a copy of the Elam decision and that a federal prosecutor, whom he may have named as Morehead, had concerns about his credibility issues in court and his having bungled a few cases. Roland informed Plaintiff that Ash had decided he should be removed from investigations.