This post first appeared in the Morning Report. It has been updated.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Matthew Braner has tentatively ruled that, because of Grecia Figueroa’s rampant and willful “spoliation” of evidence, he will dismiss her sexual harassment case against former County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher.

Read the tentative ruling here.

“As set forth above, Plaintiff engaged in a pattern of preserving only the evidence she believed was helpful to her case, while actively deleting, or knowingly allowing to be deleted, evidence that was likely detrimental to her claims,” Braner wrote in the tentative ruling.

If it is upheld, it will end the legal case against Fletcher that itself ended his high-profile political career and sent county politics and governance into turmoil for two year

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