OAKLAND — The attorney for a former San Leandro police officer charged with manslaughter in a 2020 death of Steven Taylor wants a judge to toss the case, amid claims of “unscrupulous” behavior by a since-departed Alameda County prosecutor.

The request on behalf of Jason Fletcher — who has since retired from the San Leandro Police Department — comes less than two months after the officer’s attorney, Michael Rains, accused one Alameda County prosecutor of “unethical” behavior .

Rains now wants the entire case dismissed, as opposed to merely delayed. If the request is granted, it would mark an abrupt end to the first prosecution of a law enforcement officer in the Bay Area over an on-duty death of a civilian since BART Officer Johannes Mehserle was charged with the fatal shooting of Os

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