FARGO (KFGO) - Federal prosecutors are fighting a motion by defense attorneys who want to force two former prosecutors to testify about whether they knowingly allowed false testimony during the Alfonso Rodriguez trial.
Rodriguez's public defenders want to question former U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley and former prosecutor Norm Anderson. The defense attorneys claim that former medical examiner, Dr. Michael McGee, testified that Dru Sjodin was raped even though tests proved that McGee's testimony was false.
In court documents, Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer calls the request a "fishing expedition." Reisenauer says attempts to obtain testimony from prosecutors would be an "improper intrusion" and a violation of legal precedent.
Rodriguez is on death row for Sjodin’s 2003 kidnapping and murder.