Posted on 11/15/2017 11:02:56 AM PST by Elderberry
In the criminal justice system, the district attorney has more far-reaching powers than any other figure, given that some 95 percent of felony convictions arise from guilty pleas, resulting in prosecutorial discretion rather than that of judges or juries. Thus it’s critical that whoever occupies the post of district attorney be beyond reproach on all ethical and moral levels. And that’s why the sworn affidavit by one of McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna’s former prosecutors should be exceedingly worrisome to every law-abiding citizen.
Greg Davis, a veteran prosecutor who put 18 people on death row before going to work for Reyna as a top assistant in 2011, said in an affidavit filed Friday that Reyna has dismissed criminal cases for friends and major campaign donors for political and personal gain and that Reyna remains under federal investigation. Davis attributes his resignation to his belief “neither politics nor wealth should play any role in prosecutorial decisions and Reyna’s actions were completely antithetical to my beliefs and the oath that all prosecutors take to do justice.”
A fair reading of this affidavit leaves one stunned at the allegations of courthouse cronyism and corruption: in effect dismissal of a Reyna campaign supporter’s DWI charge (with a blood-alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit); the dropping of a drug charge against a man whose mother employed Reyna’s wife and was a Reyna campaign donor; misusing the Pre-Trial Intervention Program to dispose of cases not typically in its province; and appointment of “special prosecutors” to dismiss cases for friends and supporters such as one who pressed Reyna to make a DWI charge “go away.” And so on.
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I hope they nail him. Justice has no need for these types.
Greg Davis, a veteran prosecutor who put 18 people on death row before going to work for Reyna as a top assistant in 2011, said in an affidavit filed Friday that Reyna has dismissed criminal cases for friends and major campaign donors for political and personal gain and that Reyna remains under federal investigation.
Greg Davis who was a beneficiary of corruption and cronyism ...
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