What Were the 11 Failures That Forced a Judge to Dismiss Aaron Spencer’s Murder Case?

Eleven failures. One detective. One missing SD card. One 19-page order from a judge who chose the most extreme remedy available — full dismissal.

Judge Ralph Wilson’s ruling in the Aaron Spencer case didn’t stop at identifying problems. He catalogued a pattern: no photographs of the dashcam’s position in Fosler’s truck, no documentation in the incident report, no chain-of-custody record, no evidence log entry for over a year. Detective Robbie McCain pulled the SD card, viewed it on his personal laptop, put it back in the camera, and stored the whole thing in an untaped manila envelope in his office cabinet. Not the evidence room. His office.

When the camera reached the AG’s forensics unit, the SD card was gone. The state’s argument was straightforward: this was negligence, not bad faith. Wilson rejected that outright. He noted that LCSO’s own policy required electronic devices to be sent to the AG without manipulation — and that by McCain’s own admission, this was the first time the department had ever seized a dashcam during an investigation.

Spencer shot and killed Michael Fosler — the man charged with 43 felonies involving Spencer’s daughter — after finding the sixty-seven-year-old with his child in the early morning hours. Fosler was out on bond with a no-contact order. Spencer called 911 afterward and has maintained he was defending his daughter.

Wilson wrote that the dashcam was the only possible neutral record of what happened, because Spencer cannot be compelled to testify. He called the detective’s conduct “so egregious” that dismissal was warranted. The day after the ruling, Sheriff John Staley fired McCain. An outside legal analyst walks through what this ruling says, what it means, and what it reveals about how evidence was handled from the start.

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