The Region : Defense Questions McMartin Prosecutor

A prosecutor in the McMartin Pre-School molestation case was questioned by defense attorneys as to whether he had ever said that the alleged child victims he represents should not be believed, whether he feels that the district attorney embarked on a vindictive prosecution, and whether he and other prosecutors misled parents without first fully investigating the allegations against seven Manhattan Beach nursery school teachers. However, Los Angeles Municipal Judge Aviva K. Bobb sustained objections to most of the questions on relevancy grounds, and the prosecutor, Deputy Dist. Atty. Glenn Stevens, was excused after a half day on the witness stand in which he said little more than that he has been a deputy district attorney for seven years and is still assigned to the case.