In March, two deputies under investigation for their role in the scandal quietly retired. Meanwhile, some individuals who oversaw the jails or DekraaiвЂ™s case at the time of the alleged misconduct have received promotions. And on Friday, a deputy attorney general said that the state investigation into the case - the only avenue for criminal charges - has been closed. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit accusing authorities of having deployed вЂњprofessionalвЂќ informants for decades.Д«ut to date, no one has been disciplined, fired or prosecuted for misconduct. Orange County prosecutors were kicked off DekraaiвЂ™s case, and a judge cited the informant scheme in sparing him a place on CaliforniaвЂ™s death row. Department of Justice followed suit the next year. The state attorney generalвЂ™s office opened an investigation into both agencies in 2015 the U.S.

But jailhouse records soon proved otherwise, and the Orange County district attorneyвЂ™s office and SheriffвЂ™s Department found themselves embroiled in a national scandal. The accusation - that sheriffвЂ™s deputies planted a prolific snitch in the cell of confessed killer Scott Dekraai in the hopes of eliciting information without his lawyer present, and then covered up their unconstitutional actions - seemed outlandish at the time. Nearly five years have passed since a lawyer representing the man who slaughtered eight people inside a Seal Beach salon first raised questions about the way investigators used informants inside Orange CountyвЂ™s jails.

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