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Kim Gardner staffer tampered with McCloskey’s ‘inoperable’ handgun in order to charge couple…
www.citizenfreepress.com ^ | by Kane on July 22, 2020 10:43 pm

Posted on 07/23/2020 6:46:09 AM PDT by Red Badger

St. Louis prosecutor ordered crime lab to reassemble Patricia McCloskey’s gun

ST. LOUIS — The gun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable when it arrived at the St. Louis police crime lab, but a member of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s staff ordered crime lab experts to disassemble and reassemble it and wrote that it was “readily capable of lethal use” in charging documents filed Monday, 5 On Your Side has learned.

In Missouri, police and prosecutors must prove that a weapon is “readily” capable of lethal use when it is used in the type of crime with which the McCloskeys have been charged.

Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley ordered crime lab staff members to field strip the handgun and found it had been assembled incorrectly. Specifically, the firing pin spring was put in front of the firing pin, which was backward, and made the gun incapable of firing, according to documents obtained by 5 On Your Side.

Firearms experts then put the gun back together in the correct order and test-fired it, finding that it worked.

Crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly of the gun, according to the documents.

Patricia McCloskey and her husband, Mark McCloskey, have said the handgun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable because they had used it as a prop during a lawsuit they once filed against a gun manufacturer. In order to bring it into a courtroom, they made it inoperable.

Their attorney, Joel Schwartz, confirmed to 5 On Your Side that the McCloskeys intentionally misplaced the firing pin on the gun and that it was in that condition when Patricia McCloskey waved it at protesters and turned it into their former attorney Al Watkins.

“It’s disheartening to learn that a law enforcement agency altered evidence in order to prosecute an innocent member of the community,” Schwartz said.

A spokeswoman for Gardner wrote: “We can’t comment on a pending case.”



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Missouri
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KIM Gardner should be disbarred forever and indicted ..........................
1 posted on 07/23/2020 6:46:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Conspiracy to obstruct justice. Slammer time for these Marxist tyrants.


2 posted on 07/23/2020 6:46:59 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Red Badger

Where is the AG for Missouri? We want this woman hauled off to the state penitentiary for pretrial detention in Handcuffs.


3 posted on 07/23/2020 6:48:30 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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“Conspiracy to obstruct justice”

It is hardly a conspiracy when they document what they did and published that information.


4 posted on 07/23/2020 6:49:36 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: Red Badger; Fred Nerks

Kim Gardner WILL be disbarred, and hopefully charged with fabricating evidence in a police investigation.

Any citizen of Missouri should have standing to file such a complaint, the more the better, in the thousands.

Send this SOROS bought and paid for rat into ignominy.


5 posted on 07/23/2020 6:51:35 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Anyone else now wondering if every conviction these people have ever obtained should be reviewed?


6 posted on 07/23/2020 6:52:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Red Badger

Wow, how did this information get out?

Good news for the Mccluskeys.


7 posted on 07/23/2020 6:52:38 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times,Oh Liberty or Give me Death!")
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I have to wonder how many times she has done this with cases that dont have the publicity

since this is so high profile people are CYA so everything being documented

If I was a lawyer in another case I would be keeping a sharp eye on this.


8 posted on 07/23/2020 6:53:00 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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Tampered?? Altered??, F%$K YOU, THEY FABRICATED EVIDENCE and belong in Prison and should have already been Perp Walked and Held without Bail.

WTF is the US Attorney doing, jacking off to video games?


9 posted on 07/23/2020 6:54:02 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Red Badger

I guess they wanted to make sure they didn’t accidentally shoot a rioter.


10 posted on 07/23/2020 6:56:40 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: FewsOrange

So she was so ignorant of law they she openly destroyed her own case.


11 posted on 07/23/2020 6:57:27 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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“Crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly of the gun, according to the documents.”

Useful evidence to be used during her disbarrment.


12 posted on 07/23/2020 6:58:07 AM PDT by moovova
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Just note this.....HINCKLEY gave the order to TAMPERwith EVIDENCE, and the LAB WORKERS OBEYED!!!! OMG!


13 posted on 07/23/2020 6:58:27 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AndyJackson

Can’t touch the DA because she’s,,,,,,well, we all know the rest of the tune.


14 posted on 07/23/2020 6:58:50 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Systemic liberalism is the problem.)
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To: FewsOrange
Conspiracy conspiracy definition: 1. the activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal

Not

Conspiracy Theory A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.

They conspired to take the gun apart and put it together and make it workable.
15 posted on 07/23/2020 6:59:26 AM PDT by ssfromla
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Yes, BUT THEY VIDEOED THE WHOLE THING! FROM START TO FINISH.

They KNEW it was TAMPERING and were PROTECTING THEMSELVES!.................


16 posted on 07/23/2020 6:59:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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And Chris Hinckley and the lab workers also must be INDICTED today!!


17 posted on 07/23/2020 7:00:13 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mewzilla

Yes, EVERY case her office has ever tried is now suspect........Attorneys are lining up at the clerk of the court doors to file dismissals and or retrial motions.................


18 posted on 07/23/2020 7:02:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: AndyJackson

Conspiracy to obstruct justice....in furtherance of an 18USC242 depravation of civil rights under of color of law.

No way that federal charge is not supported. I understand there is viable video evidence of this to boot. In a just world, the prosecutor would be in the federal slammer in 3 2 1.

By the way, we don’t want a dismissal, we want it expunged. Dismissal is still on the record of arrest for felony.


19 posted on 07/23/2020 7:04:35 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: AndyJackson

“Perpetrating a fraud on the court” seems to come to mind as well.............


20 posted on 07/23/2020 7:05:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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