Casey implicated Arpaio in willful defiance of the court.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's former mouthpiece, Tim Casey, sang like an Irish tenor in federal court Tuesday, rolling on his onetime client and implicating him in criminal contempt of the court's orders.
Casey was instructed to testify by federal Judge G. Murray Snow over the continuing objections of his ethics attorney on the grounds of attorney-client privilege.
But Snow ruled that certain matters of importance to the hearings were not covered by the otherwise sacrosanct blanket of confidentiality between lawyer and client.
And on those issues, Casey's testimony painted a picture of a hard-headed sheriff indifferent to advice of counsel and determined to do it his way or no way.
