So, the idiot in charge of pushing this farce into being is suddenly "too busy" with drunk driving cases and dogs pooping in the park to handle the manslaughter trial that promises to end her career, legally and politically. Well-played, Madame Defarge.
In other comedy news, a judge granted criminally incompetent defendant Reed permission to keep a gun at her house(!), after prosecutors forgot to redact her personal information from released documents, subjecting her to death threats pending trial.
Way to go, Albuquerque [mea culpa] Santa Fe D.A. Nitwit! Getting the trial court to okay handing the foremost accused criminal in a manslaughter case a gun has to be a new record for absolute boundless legal incompetence. It turns out it's not the law that's an ass, it's just certain lawyers.
This is what happens when you hire your prosecutors from Elmer's A-1 Law School, Beautician, and Horseshoeing Academy.
If they're still short prosecutors, maybe somebody should tell them Marcia Clarke and Elaine Bredehoft are both available on an ad hoc basis.
At this rate, by the time the trial is over, Baldwin will be the chief weapons instructor for the NM State Police, if not the governor of New Mexico.
Would the last prosecutor in New Mexico leaving this recockulous case please turn out the lights?
She had great credentials *eye roll*
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Most likely got a late night call and backed out.
The inclusion of horse shoeing as being as useless as the other "trades" is misplaced.
ReplyDeleteYes, farriers are stuck in the 19th century, but they do work to produce an useful, if limited, product, here in America, and are not working to put lipstick on a pig. :-)
John in Indy
At this point I have heard so much dreck for and against Baldwin, et. al. I want to step back and ask -- "Who killed Halyna Hutchins?" Clearly the DAs' have not a clue.
ReplyDeleteWay to go, Albuquerque D.A. Nitwit! Getting the trial court to okay handing the foremost accused criminal in a manslaughter case a gun has to be a new record for absolute boundless legal incompetence. It turns out it's not the law that's an ass, it's just certain lawyers.
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree.
Reed is still presumed to be an innocent party, until convicted. A restraining order denying her access to firearms might be appropriate if she was a danger to others, but I don't see the facts pointing that way. She's incompetent as a film armorer, and probably as a safety officer or trainer, but still entitled to defend herself if attacked.
The charges are for involuntary manslaughter. Not aggravated assault.
As a side issue, I'm mildly curious how she can face two counts of involuntary manslaughter, when only one person died. But not curious enough to do more than a cursory google search.
Sigh... I think the lights are already out...
ReplyDeleteYa, they wouldn't bail if they thought it was going to be a career boost. Wonder if this will happen in Manhattan, too?
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ReplyDeleteNope. A gun crime is a gun crime; if you get arrested for manslaughter with a firearm, your firearms rights are normally suspendable.
That's why a criminal indictment and arrest warrant are considered due process, and why the trial judge overruled the prosecutor in what is normally a slam-dunk denial pending trial results.
If she shoots anyone else pending trial, even the judge in this case looks like an @$$hole for doing it. [Pro Tip: Judges anywhere don't like to look like @$$holes.]
One mistake is happenstance, but letting it happen twice would be inexcusable.
Which just shows how incompetent the entire D.A.'s office is to let it come to this.