Posted on 06/05/2024 7:06:01 AM PDT by libstripper
June 4 (Reuters) - A Texas prosecutor asked the state's highest criminal court on Tuesday to reverse a pardon granted by Governor Gregg Abbott to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder and sentenced to prison for fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester. Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, a Democrat whose office tried the murder case, said he asked the state Court of Criminal Appeals for a special order, called a writ of mandamus, to overturn Abbott's action.
Garza told a news briefing in the state capital of Austin that Abbott, a Republican, violated the separation of powers doctrine of the state's constitution and failed to follow proper legal procedures in the way he pardoned Daniel Perry last month. Abbott's office did not immediately respond to Reuters' request seeking comment on Garza's move. Perry, convicted last year, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting Garrett Foster, a U.S. Air Force veteran, in July 2020 during the protest against racial injustice following the George Floyd killing by police in Minneapolis months earlier.
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Yes. Perfect example is a pardon or a refusal to have state LEO enforce a BS ruling. Republican Gov’s must do the same underhanded crap that Dem’s do.
Yah, that is the gist of the note that Abbot ought to send down the street.
A pardon is just that. Cannot reverse, yah TWOT.
interesting. TBH, I’d consider that as a requirement to be unconstitutional. But that’s just me......
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