Why?
How did I guess the DA is a black female...???
I believe that this is relevant to the situation.
Formal Complaint Filed Against Gardner for Handling of Greitens Case
During the Greitens pretrial hearings, Gardner was accused of withholding evidence and suborning perjury.
https://kmox.radio.com/articles/formal-complaint-filed-against-gardner-handling-greitens-case
Azz
Needs
Fired
Now
Well, if these 28 have integrity issues, they should be fired. More prosecutors should do this.
St. Louis had 205 murders last year for 308,000 people. That’s literally a warzone level of violent deaths. I’m actually surprised that St. Louis has any law enforcement whatsoever - it’s clearly not doing any good enforcing the actual laws...
Officers have a constitutional right to the Fifth Amendment. She better have a better excuse than that. If not, she’s simply another thug Leftist who thinks she can ignore the US Constitution.
Does this mean those officers just hang out and no arrest or ticket they issue will be prosecuted?
This gal is at war with the SLMPD and is the social activist prosecutor du jour, as the pending limp noodle Wesley Bell, who without benefit of ever prosecuting a state case, will soon be running the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. An office who has many years of talent and will lose it as soon as he walks in.
We in the County LE field already know that cases issued is going to be exponentially more difficult. Drug cases? Forget about it. Bond? Forget about it. Triple secret probation and even more extensive Suspended Imposition of Sentence? Count on it.
The Michael Brown Unnatural Disaster has far reaching impacts and is only greasing the skids of the demise of urban areas.
Note to all, stay the hell away from St. Louis. Pound for Pound, it outdoes Chicago.
Gonna suck even more to be a law abiding citizen in that neck of the woods...
Amid tough competition, St Louis is trying to be the sh!thole capital of the U.S.
so.....if I murder someone in broad daylight on a street in St. Louis, and by luck of the draw the wrong officer responds, I walk, scott-free?
She can not pick and choose what cases she prosecutes if there is a real crime.
She is a racist in office and should be deatroyed.
Probably a liberal. Liberals always find somebody to blame other then themselves for their inadequacies, their screwups.
She should be removed from office.
I’m gonna laugh my ass off when one of those 28 arrest her ass.
Gardner’s predecessor, Jennifer Joyce, refused to take cases from a handful of officers at a time in the past when their credibility had been questioned.
Chris Hinckley, chief warrant officer for the circuit attorney’s office, recently emailed a letter to the Missouri Highway Patrol saying the office had dismissed some cases and refused to file charges in others after Trooper Michael L. Crutcher’s conduct during traffic stops caught the attention of city prosecutors.
“The trooper’s conduct came under scrutiny after several prosecuting attorneys expressed legal and ethical concerns about his conduct during their case assessment and review of dash-cam footage,” Hinckley said in his email to Highway Patrol Maj. Greg Smith. “The review of the officer revealed a pattern of unacceptable practices and questionable behavior.”
“Our review showed repeated instances of undue pressure, factual exaggerations or misstatements of the law, seemingly all aimed at securing admissions or consents-to-search,” Hinckley told Bush.
Issues cited in a list of dismissed or refused cases provided by the circuit attorney’s office include a “lack of evidence,” “lab results negative” or “search and seizure problems.”
So listen up and maybe you'll get something into your stupid skull. I can give you chapter and verse on all of this:
These days, a traffic stop along the interstate, which is where any state's State Police do most of their traffic stops, isn't a traffic stop, it's a drug interdiction. Job One at that traffic stop is to get the motorist talking. Get him to incriminate himself. Trip him up. Get him to "consent" to a search.
And if that means lies of omission and lies of commission and threats, then that's what it means. That means you tell the motorist that if he doesn't consent to a search, he's going have to wait an hour for the drug dog to come and sniff what we both know is in there. Or that he smells marijuana, and either you tell me where it is, or I arrest you right here and right now, and we tow the car and find it anyway. Or you tell him that based on your "years of training and experience", he and his car and his license plate and his bumper stickers and his junk in his back seat match the always-convenient profile of a drug runner, and that's all he needs to search the car. Or you tell him that he's in a "high crime area", and that's good enough for search too. Or a dozen more lies that I could list from case after case. It's all illegal, but it happens.
There's no doubt that that's the kind of stuff this guy was doing, because that's what "undue pressure, factual exaggerations or misstatements of the law aimed at securing admissions or consents-to-search" means. And he was doing it so aggressively and so blatantly and to so many motorists that nobody in the prosecutor's office could stomach it.