Ex-Riverside County PD Investigator Acquitted!

Due to my caseload, I had not been able to to follow the trial I blogged about earlier this week of the ex-Public Defender Investigator from Riverside County, but I woke up yesterday to find this email in my inbox:

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Rights Protector <***********@gmail.com> wrote:
Just to let you know. Mr. Navarro was found Not Guilty on all counts. The jury even waited for him, outside the court room, to tell him they were sorry he had to go through that. I have never seen a jury do that in my life.

The Defender.

I did a quick check for news stories in Riverside to confirm the story and found the following:

By TAMMY J. McCOYThe Press-Enterprise
A jury acquitted a former investigator from the Riverside County public defender's office of rape in connection with a 2007 incident at his Temecula apartment.
Mario Navarro, 43, wept after jurors at the Southwest Justice Center found him not guilty of the sexual assault crimes, his attorney said Thursday.
"They did the right thing," defense attorney Andrew Linehan said. "Mario was very happy with the jury's verdict. I was just happy to see the process work."

Good luck Mr. Navarro, in whatever you do down the road.