Bynes

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAVIRRISE BYNES, No. 2:21-cv-01537-DJC-AC

Plaintiff, v.

ORDER

SOLANO COUNTY SHERIFF’S

DETECTIVE OLMSTEAD and DOES 1– 25,

14 Defendants.

This case centers on Plaintiff’s allegations that a detective fabricated a witness’s

testimony in order to prosecute her for bomb threat calls made to a local community

college on March 12, 2018. (ECF No. 15.) While the detective’s report and testimony

at the preliminary hearing was in tension with recorded statements of the witness, his

explanation that he presented portions of her testimony that were unrecorded is not

contradicted by evidence in the record. Critically, the import of her testimony — that

Plaintiff was at the scene when the bomb threats were made — was established by Plaintiff’s own statements. There is also ample other evidence tying Plaintiff to the underlying crime: the calls were made from a phone in Plaintiff’s office, she was attending the community college to…