Ex-Prosecutor Admits Giving Favors for Drugs
A former San Francisco County prosecutor pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to accepting drugs in exchange for going easy on defendants accused of possessing controlled substances.
Robert Roland, 34, was indicted last year on charges of helping a drug defendant get sentenced to treatment instead of prison. He also admitted that in 2002 he prosecuted a drug case against a childhood friend whose felony was reduced to a misdemeanor in exchange for hundreds of pills of Ecstasy.
Roland faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced in June.
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