According to court documents, the lawyer for Eric Stearns, the choir teacher at St. Helens High School who has been accused of sexually abusing six kids since 2015, argues that prosecutors used private documents that a former assistant principal had wrongfully kept and then given to the police.
Jennifer Myrick, the defense attorney for Stearns, claims that Darcy Soto, who served as assistant principal under Principal Katy Wagner at St. Helens High School from July 2018 to July 2020, kept private school documents when she left the district in violation of district policy and gave them to St. Helens police.
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