OAKLAND — Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson’s office quietly dropped its case against two sheriff’s deputies, both of whom were accused of lying about how often they checked on a mentally unstable inmate in the hours before her suicide at the Santa Rita Jail.

The leader of Jones Dickson’s Public Integrity Division asked a judge on Sept. 11 to dismiss the cases against Amanda Bracamontes and Sheri Baughman, who were each charged with falsifying jail records related to the 2021 hanging death of Vinetta Martin. The request by prosecutor Casey Bates was made in the “interest of justice,” and it was granted by Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Pareda, court records show.

The move by Jones Dickson marks the latest in a string of dismissals sought by the new district

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