# Aaron Spencer's Judge Documented Eleven Detective Failures And Called Every One Intentional

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Podcast: [True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948)
Published: 2026-06-14T16:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8915650
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Judge Ralph Wilson Jr.'s nineteen-page order dismissing the murder charge against Aaron Spencer catalogued eleven specific failures by the lead detective and applied the most consequential legal characterization available: intentional conduct, bad faith, and a due process violation under both the federal and Arkansas state constitutions. The court specifically rejected the state's characterization of the evidence handling as negligent. The evidentiary chain at issue involves a dashcam and SD card recovered from Michael Fosler's truck — the sole potential objective record of the final encounter between Spencer and Fosler. Detective Robbie McCain removed the camera from the windshield without photographic documentation. He extracted the SD card and viewed it on his personal computer, in violation of departmental protocol — confirmed by his commanding officer — requiring that electronic evidence be submitted to the Attorney General's forensics unit without alteration. He stored the camera in an unsealed envelope in his office rather than the evidence room. The camera was not entered into evidence for over a year. No documentation accompanied any step of the process. The SD card was not present when the AG's special agent opened the submitted package. Twelve additional SD cards were recovered from Fosler's residence and vehicle during separate searches. None was identified as the dashcam card. No duplicate or record of the card's contents was ever created. The court found a "reasonable possibility" that the detective did not observe what he testified to having observed. The court identified the dashcam footage as the only potential neutral evidentiary record — given Spencer's Fifth Amendment protections and the potential impact of trauma on his daughter's testimonial capac…

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