OAKLAND, Calif. - The Alameda County District Attorney has dropped charges against two sheriff's deputies, both of whom were formally accused of falsifying records regarding a suicide at Santa Rita Jail.

Dismiss charges against deputies

Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates, the head of the DA's Public Integrity Division, asked Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Pareda on Sept. 11 to dismiss the charges against Amanda Bracamontes and Sheri Baughman stemming from the April 2021 suicide of Vinetta Martin, who had hung herself with a bedsheet in her cell.

Pareda granted the dismissal.

The East Bay Times first reported the news.

In an email to KTVU on Thursday, Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said the deputies involved in Martin's death "were not criminally

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