Kelly Soo Park sues Detective Karen Thompson, Santa Monica PD - The Complaint

I obtained a copy of the lawsuit that Kelly Soo Park filed against Detective Karen Thompson of the Santa Monica Police Department.

   Kelly Soo Park v. Detective Karen Thompson, Santa Monica PD by Betsy A. Ross

You can also read the document on T&T's SCRIBD account HERE.

Kelly Soo Park Sues Santa Monica Police Department

6/4/13: Kelly Soo Park reacts after being acquitted on murder 
charges in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.

Los Angeles Times Now is reporting that Kelly Soo Park is suing the Santa Monica Police Department:

A woman acquitted of murder last year in connection to the high-profile slaying of an aspiring model filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Santa Monica police of intimidating witnesses and damaging her reputation.

Kelly Soo Park, 48, alleges three witnesses who planned to testify on her behalf were scared off or tainted by Santa Monica Police Det. Karen Thompson.

T&T covered the Kelly Soo Park trial.

In 2010, Kelly Soo Park was arrested for the March 2008 murder of 21 year old Juliana Redding.  Redding was found beaten and strangled to death in her apartment. Park's fingerprint and a drop of her blood were found on a ceramic dinner plate in Redding's kitchen sink. Park's DNA was found around Redding's neck, on the front and back of the t-shirt Redding was wearing, on Redding's, blackberry cell phone as well as on a stove knob.

Deputy District Attorney Stacy Okun-Wiese prosecuted the case.  The prosecution alleged that Redding was killed after her father, Arizona pharmacist Greg Redding, backed out of a business deal with Dr. Munir Uwaydah, who dated Juliana for a short time.

Park was acquitted of all charges on June 4, 2013.

I clearly remember when the defense argued these motions to present this evidence just days before the trial was about to start.  Judge Kennedy ruled over and over again that this evidence did not meet the standard. That there was no "nexus" between John Gilmore and Juliana Redding's murder.

Regarding Melissa Ayala, Judge Kennedy said something to the effect that if you asked Ms. Ayala on Wednesday how she felt about John Gilmore, she would say she loved him but if you asked her on Thursday, she would say she was afraid of him.