Opinion ID: 1150524
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Heading: breiling

Text: Oscar Breiling, a special agent of the Department of Justice, investigated charges of misconduct in the Salinas Police Department in response to a request by the Monterey County District Attorney. In early November 1975, he spoke with Joseph in Joseph's home, with Joseph's counsel present at Breiling's suggestion. Breiling admonished Joseph regarding his Miranda rights at the outset of this interview. On January 14, 1976, Joseph telephoned Breiling in the latter's San Francisco office. Joseph indicated he might obtain employment out of state and asked how the investigation was progressing. He asked whether the charges against him in the Spears case (which had been dismissed by the magistrate after the aforementioned preliminary hearing) might be refiled by the district attorney, and asked if he could leave the state. Breiling told Joseph he would like to discuss the Spears matter with him, but was not going to readmonish him, and did want Joseph to think very carefully before answering. In response to a question by Breiling, Joseph said that on the night of the Spears arrest he had spoken with Backus, Oliver, and Ward, outside Backus' office. Joseph told Backus that somebody would have to furnish heroin to Spears on the trip to Pinole. Joseph said that Backus appeared upset and replied: Joseph, you're not a rookie. You know what has to be done. Go ahead and do it, or words to that effect. Joseph told Breiling that he was aware at that time that Spears was wanted, and that he, Backus, Ward, and Oliver had discussed her wanted status extensively that evening before deciding how they were going to house her. Joseph also told Breiling that they could not put Spears in the hospital or officially in jail where her wanted status would become known. Breiling told Joseph that in an interview with an investigator Spears claimed Oliver, Ward, and Joseph returned to her 28 of the 30 balloons they had taken from her. Joseph blew up saying that was a lie, and said that he had discussed this with Ward and they had decided ... the most she possibly could have gotten back was eight balloons. In a subsequent call, after Breiling had spoken to Joseph's attorney who advised Breiling that he had told Joseph that Joseph could talk to Breiling, Joseph said that he had a conversation with Spears and Backus prior to the Pinole trip. Joseph had asked what Spears' motivation was for turning her connection in, and Backus had responded by pushing a copy of a teletype across the table, saying that's her motivation. The teletype said that Spears was wanted by the Department of Corrections. Joseph also told Breiling that he heard Backus direct someone to remove the original teletype so no one else in the department would know she was wanted.