Appeals court upholds dismissal in molestation case

BAKERSFIELD, CA- A state apellate court has upheld a Kern County judge's decision to throw out child molestation charges against a man on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.

The 5th District Court of Appeals sided with Judge H.A. Staley who ruled prosecutor Robert Murray tampered with a transcript in a child molestation case to make it appear the defendant admitted to the crime.

Murray said it was intended as a joke.

Judge Staley ruled that was grounds to dismiss all of th