A New Mexico judge on Oct. 16 threw out actor Timothy Busfield’s criminal child sexual contact charges, finding that prosecutors failed to act impartially during grand jury proceedings.
Judge Joseph Montano quashed the indictment, saying the grand jury proceedings were “conducted in a manner that violated grand jury statutes” designed to protect the structural integrity of the system.
“The prosecuting attorney failed to act in a fair and impartial manner, including the failure to properly instruct the grand jury on the law for calling witnesses and in instructing the grand jurors on a procedure that effectively withheld requested witnesses,” Montano wrote in the decision….