Sixth Judicial District Attorney Sean Murray dismissed more than 30 criminal cases and is reviewing nearly 100 more because of newly discovered credibility issues with the deputy who investigated the alleged crimes.
Murray is reviewing every case in which Jermal Ball is or was a witness, the prosecutor said Friday.
Ball was, until this month, a deputy at the Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office. He left the agency after reporting by The Denver Post showed he’d been fired from a previous job with the Durango Police Department for dishonesty after he was pulled over for suspected drunken driving and lied to internal affairs investigators.
The 2022 termination should have triggered a state investigation into Ball and the revocation of his certification to work as a police officer in Colorado, but the Durango Police Department did not report the incident to state disciplinary authorities at the time. That inaction allowed Ball to secure a job at the Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office in 2022.
He worked there as a deputy until earlier this month, Murray confirmed.
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