Nineteen pages. That’s how long it took Judge Ralph Wilson to explain why the murder case against Aaron Spencer had to be thrown out. Not reduced, not delayed, not retried. Dismissed.

Wilson’s order walked through eleven distinct violations by lead Detective Robbie McCain. The dashcam from Michael Fosler’s truck was never photographed in position. The SD card was removed and viewed on McCain’s personal computer. The camera sat in an unmarked office envelope for over a year before it was logged into evidence. And when the AG’s forensics unit opened the package, the card that could have recorded everything from the night of the shooting was gone.

Spencer found his thirteen-year-old daughter with Fosler — a man charged with 43 felonies involving Spencer’s child, out on bond with a no-contact order — and shot him. He called 911 and has maintained since day one that he was protecting his daughter.

Wilson didn’t accept the state’s argument that the evidence failures were accidental. He wrote that the detective’s conduct violated department policy, that it established “a pattern of policy and procedure violations,” and that it gave “the appearance of a coverup.” He found that the dashcam footage was the only potential neutral record of what happened — because Spencer cannot be compelled to testify under the Fifth Amendment. He found bad faith.

The morning after the ruling, Sheriff John Staley — the incumbent Spencer defeated by double digits in the Republican primary — fired McCain. Called it a policy violation. An outside legal analyst walks through the ruling line by line: what Wilson found, the legal standards he applied, and what this order reveals about how evidence was handled in this case from the start.

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