St. Louis Prosecutor Removed from McCloskey Self-Defense Case

AmmoLand ^ | 14 December, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The Charge Against St. Louis Couple for Defending their Home

On 10 December 2020, in the Missouri Circuit Court, the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit (City of St. Louis), Judge Thomas Clark, II, removed Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from the prosecution of the criminal case against Mark McCloskey.  The case before the court did not include Mark's wife, Patricia.

The case caught national attention with the video evidence available. According to a St. Louis Today.com article, a motion will be filed to extend the ruling to Patricia:

Defense lawyer Joel Schwartz said he’ll file a motion requesting that Stelzer adopt Clark’s ruling in Patricia McCloskey’s case.

“This is what we wanted,” Schwartz said. “We would like a fair-minded prosecutor to take a look at the alleged crimes and reassess the evidence and see what they come up with because we don’t believe any of the evidence supports any of the charges. … As long as that happens, then I think we’ll have the right outcome and that would hopefully be no charges.”

The Court cited both statutory law and rules of conduct for prosecutors. From the Court order,  Rule 4-3.8(f) states:

Although the announcement of an indictment, for example, will necessarily have severe consequences for the accused, a prosecutor can and should avoid comments that have no legitimate law enforcement purpose and have a substantial likelihood for increasing public approbrium of the accused.

Understandably, Ms. Gardner has every right to rebut criticism, but it appears unnecessary to stigmatize Defendant – or even mention him – in campaign solicitations, especially when she purports to be responding to others.

[marktwain]

Kim Gardner, the far left prosecutor in St. Louis, has been removed from the McCloskey case because of personal interest. She used the McCloskey case for fundraising and campaigning.

[riverrunner]

A political prosecution for sure designed to suppress the rights of people protecting themselves

[Vigilanteman]

In a sane world, the only bar Gardner would belong to is the rail she would be ridden out of town on. After being properly tarred and feathered.

[A_Former_Democrat]

The bitch needs to be disbarred

[Chad C. Mulligan]

How come it took so long? We’ve known about this Soros prosecutor’s malfeasance for months!

[marktwain]

Court proceedings take time.

First, it had to go to a court.

Then the McCloskeys had to object to the prosecutor on grounds of personal conflict.

The evidence had to be gathered, breifs written, judge presented with the evidence, and considered.

Then we got to the result.

The event happened on 28 June, 2020.

So, from the event to now has been less than six months.