Posted on 12/11/2020 12:19:59 PM PST by Twotone
A judge on Thursday dismissed the St. Louis prosecutor from the case against Mark McCloskey. A judge determined that improper fundraising emails by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's campaign infringed on the McCloskeys' right to receive a fair trial.
Circuit Judge Thomas Clark II said that fundraising emails from Gardner's re-election campaign to constituents "raise the appearance of impropriety and jeopardize the defendant's right to a fair trial."
"Like a needle pulling thread, she links the defendant and his conduct to her critics," Clark wrote in the 22-page ruling. "These emails are tailored to use the June 28 incident to solicit money by positioning her against defendant and her more vocal critics.
"This is a high-profile case, receiving extensive media coverage, eliminating any possibility that any assistant circuit attorney is unaware of Ms. Gardner's incipient interest, initial involvement and advocacy on this matter," Clark said, as reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"In short, she identifies her critics, links them to (Mark McCloskey), requests the campaign contribution to fight back and forewarns criminal prosecution by holding defendant 'accountable,'" Clark wrote. "To a reasonable person, this language forecasts prosecutorial action."
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Small victory, considering what else is going on, but a REALLY NICE slap-down.
The couple is still very lucky, so far. It’s time for separation...while Leftists are left alone when they live in conservative areas, the same is obviously NOT true in the other direction. If this couple lived in a solid-red jurisdiction, the government would have LAUGHED at BLM when they whined about having guns pointed at them.
This was a malicious prosecution from the start and this so called prosecutor lawyer should and would be disbarred in a legitimate system.
Michael Byron Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is a disbarred North Carolina attorney.[2] He served as the district attorney for Durham County, North Carolina until he was removed, disbarred and jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case, primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted the defendants.[3] (from Wikipedia)
Meanwhile Kim Foxx of Juicy Smollay fame is sworn into a second term. Chicago voters are friggin’ idiots.
Either that or their elections are fixed. Or both.
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