EL PASO - A local attorney is filing a formal ethics complaint against the people that sat on the hiring committee for former medical examiner Paul Shrode.
County judge Veronica Escobar told Local 4 News that the hiring committee knew Shrode had fabricated on his resume, and that they did not do their due diligence in vetting every qualification. Members on the hiring committee included an employee from the county attorney's office, as well as county commissioner Dan Haggerty.
Local attorney Theresa Caballero says she was the defense attorney in a trial in which Shrode's resume was brought in as evidence by an employee of the county attorney's office. In cross-examination of Shrode, she says she learned that certain qualifications on his resume, including having a law degree, were fabricated. Caballero says if the county attorney's office knew about Shrode's fabrications when they hired him, but later brought in his resume as evidence in a trial, then they knowingly entered in false evidence in the trial.
Watch Local 4 News tonight at 5:30 and 10, to hear what Haggerty has to say about hiring Shrode, and find out what the possible consequences are if the State Bar of Texas investigates and concludes that there was an ethics violation.
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