SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A Utah judge wants to see the private UHP records of controversial Trooper Lisa Steed.
And depending on what the judge sees in those documents, that could affect a number of her many arrests.
Steed has made hundreds of DUI arrests.
She was even Trooper of the Year.
But now, her records are being reviewed, both by the Salt Lake District Attorney and soon by a Utah judge.
Just weeks ago, the state paid a $40,000 dollar settlement to a man tasered by Steed.
Perhaps, because of incidents like this, the district attorney's office began looking into dozens of her cases.
ABC 4 has learned the district attorney has now obtained more than a half dozen of Steed's private UHP records.
Those are the records which, Tuesday, a Third District Court judge said he wants to see.
Joseph Jardine, a defense attorney representing a suspected DUI driver stopped by Steed, asked outside the courtroom,
"Are there documents that the government has that would have a bearing on our case?"
All of this has now attracted the attention of the legal community, especially those representing suspected DUI drivers
arrested by Steed.
They want to know if there's anything in Steed's records which might cast doubt on her conduct and/or credibility.
Jardine says,
"We haven't been given access to them. We don't know what they are. All that we know is that the state doesn't want to give them to us."
So ABC 4 asked the district attorney's office; exactly what's in those Steed records now being turned over to the judge?
Without going into many specifics, a deputy district attorney told ABC 4 that the UHP Steed documents include both reports and letters.
They will be reviewed by the judge early next year.
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