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Originally posted by corsair:
...yet, he was released on his own with an ankle monitor.

...which wasn't being monitored by the company responsible for keeping track of these ankle monitors, and the reason for this was that some particular paperwork was not filed by Gardner's office. As a result, this thug roamed about freely.

But, of course, its the fault of everyone but Gardner's office.

It's a political stunt! It's voter suppression!

https://ago.mo.gov/docs/defaul...df?sfvrsn=d36ec88b_2

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Originally posted by Shaql:
When are they going to go after the AG for lack of oversight of the DA?

The AG has NO oversight over a County Prosecuting Attorney. Each county Prosecutor is an elected position. People put a hope that the MO Supreme Court was going to remove her or take her law license but they didn't as they didn't want to deal with the backlash. Also at that point, Gardner was just re-elected (it is St. Louis City, the only qualification she needed was being of a certain culture) and had the support of the Mayor and Board of Alderman. Now Gardner has lost that support, and even the Post Disgrace (Local Commie News Letter, their subscription is too low to be considered a newspaper) is writing articles critical of Gardner.

The Mo AG was even going to use a special prosecutor to prosecute some of the violent crime cases that Gardner did not prosecute. Some of those cases involved certain officers being on her "No warrant/no cases" list. Even the Police Chief has no idea which officers are on the list or why they are on the list.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
It's a political stunt! It's voter suppression!

https://ago.mo.gov/docs/defaul...df?sfvrsn=d36ec88b_2

Thanks for that, chellim1. Political stunt indeed. She's so conscientious that she works on Sunday!

From page 9:

Second, Respondent issued a statement
on February 22, 2023, saying “On December 12, 2021, prosecutors asked
for a bond revocation, which was denied by Judge Hettenbach.” @Stlcao,
Twitter (Feb. 22, 2023, 10:15), https://twitter.com/stlcao/status/
1628609479745982466?s=20. However,the court’s docket sheet reveals no
such request, and moreover, December 12, 2021, was a Sunday.

On Friday, the Missouri Supreme Court appointed a judge to adjudicate the case against Gardner.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...fe1e73e166968a&ei=87

"Gardner is just as dumb as a sack of hammers"

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"The only unforgivable crime in America is standing up against the left," Mark McCloskey told Fox News Digital.

Yes, it would seem so.

That's a good article.

Mark McCloskey lays out the truth.

Here is another good article, which should make the AG's case against Gardner. It shows that Gardner brought in The Vera Institute of Justice to aid an "aggressive" ideological reform.The Vera Institute is funded by Soros:

St. Louis DA shoved 'aggressive' racial equity agendas into daily prosecution decisions using Soros-linked org

Some highlights from the article:

1. "The collaboration between Gardner and Vera was considered a "pilot partnership," which the nonprofit said it would use as a "blueprint" for future district attorney offices around the U.S. as part of its mission to end "mass incarceration" and dissolve the criminal justice system's footprint in the U.S."

2. "In order to enter into a "Motion for Justice" partnership with Vera and get its support, DA offices must commit to reducing racial disparities by at least 20%. In order to accomplish this, partnering DA's must promise to, for example, ignore criminal histories when prosecuting repeat offenders."

3. "To address "racial inequity," Vera crunched the data on how the St. Louis' justice system "disproportionately impact[ed] communities of color" and presented policy recommendations to DA leadership on how to suppress those disparities, which were then implemented by the DA.

The structure put in place appeared to incentivize prosecutors to try and tamp down on key metrics that were being watched – refusal rates of cases and pre-trial detentions.

"[B]ecause most prosecutors have absolute discretion over who gets charged, an office’s refusal rate can be a key metric for determining whether the office is actively shrinking the criminal legal system’s footprint," Vera said.

Based on Vera’s review and recommendations, the DA "began monitoring its refusal rate over time" and applied "a more stringent review of cases at initial charging."

For example, prosecutors began applying a "beyond a reasonable doubt" requirement to initiate charges instead of the standard of probable cause to decrease the case load entering the system."

The Missouri AG filed a 120-page amended petition to his original complaint yesterday. Some of the situations cited are beyond disturbing: a great example is the woman victim who was told by the assistant circuit attorney (ACA) handling her case not to come to court. When the victim was a no-show in court, the ACA then told the judge that the woman was uncooperative and the judge dismissed the case. Luckily, the victim caught wind of this asshattery and wrote a letter to the judge outlining what she had been told by the ACA. Oops!


Link

Missouri AG Gets Specific on Why Kim Gardner Has to Go

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's quest to remove Kim Gardner from office continued today when he filed a 120-page amended petition in circuit court accusing the embattled circuit attorney of a litany of failures while in office, including a failure to prosecute a man who killed a seven-year-old.

According to Bailey's court filing, Gardner's mismanagement has resulted in judges dismissing more than 2,700 cases. Gardner's own office has dismissed more than 9,000 cases due to a lack of diligence, the amended petition says.

The initial quo warranto petition that Bailey filed on February 23 relied heavily on media reports about Gardner's office. This amended petition cites numerous specific cases in which Bailey is alleging Gardner's office failed to bring defendants to court, show up to court themselves or prosecute misdemeanors like domestic assault.

One of the cases Bailey mentions in the petition is of a man, identified as E.P., who was charged with assault and armed criminal action in February 2021 for shooting a person referred to as S.P. seven times. According to Bailey's petition, an assistant circuit attorney contacted S.P. and allegedly told her not to appear at E.P.'s bench trial, which was to take place in February of this year.

That assistant circuit attorney then told E.P.'s lawyer that S.P. wasn't cooperating as a witness. At the bench trial, the prosecutor said the CAO was "not ready for trial as the complaining, essential witness is not cooperative." The court subsequently dismissed the case.

According to the petition, when the shooting victim read that the case had been dismissed, she wrote, "I am the complaining witness / victim for this case. I was and remain cooperative. I have attended court for the trial that didn’t end up going, and I was willing to come to court to testify on Feb. 10th 2023, but was directed not to appear by the assistant circuit attorney assigned to the case."


According to the petition, when the shooting victim read that the case had been dismissed, she wrote, "I am the complaining witness / victim for this case. I was and remain cooperative. I have attended court for the trial that didn’t end up going, and I was willing to come to court to testify on Feb. 10th 2023, but was directed not to appear by the assistant circuit attorney assigned to the case."

Bailey also alleged the CAO has a pattern of filing last minute nolle prosequi motions "on the eve of trial or the day of trial." This is a move that drops charges against a defendant and allows prosecutor to refile them, essentially restarting the prosecutorial clock and allowing prosecutors more time to prepare a case. However, it can also leave defendants lingering in jail.

Bailey's amended petition cites multiple examples of this, including a 2019 case against an individual identified as D.H., indicted for assaulting a police officer for allegedly trying to stab him with a knife. After a jury had been selected in the case, the prosecutor filed a nolle prosequi and elected not to proceed.

The petition claims court data shows the nolle prosequi rate has "skyrocketed" during Gardner's tenure, from 14.9 percent of case dispositions in 2016 to 35 percent in 2020.

Bailey's filing also references the case against Brandon Campbell, who was indicted for murder. On three occasions between May and July 2021 an attorney from the CAO failed to show up to hearings relating to the case, which was eventually dropped.

The petition also highlights the August 12, 2019, shooting death of seven-year-old Xavier Usanga in Hyde Park.

According to the petition, Malik Ross got into an argument with two other men and began firing at them. One of the bullets struck Usanga, who was playing in an alley behind his home. The SLMPD collected enough evidence to try Ross, but the CAO requested "follow-up work." The police collected more evidence and again presented it to the CAO, but Bailey's petition alleges the office never followed up on the case.

The SLMPD also collected evidence against Ross implicating him in an embezzlement scheme as he sought to collect money to flee in the aftermath of the shooting. With the CAO not prosecuting, police took the evidence of embezzlement to federal prosecutors, who got a 10 year sentence against Ross. The evidence related to Usanga’s shooting was given in testimony at Ross' sentencing, leading to the stiffer sentence.

The amended quo warranto also accuses Gardner of failing to investigate officer-involved shootings as well as failing to disclose evidence to defendants and their attorneys in a timely manner.

A graph included in the filings shows that the number of cases issued by the CAO has declined precipitously in the past decade, with less than 2,000 cases being issued in 2022, down from 6,118 in 2013.

Many of the later parts of the amended petition describe what Bailey refers to as the "untenable position" Gardner's staff attorneys have been put in by their heavy caseloads and lack of support.

The petition cites one assistant circuit attorney responsible for handling the prosecution of 400 felonies. Another assistant circuit attorney told a judge on the record he could not continue for reasons of "exhaustion and health."

"Because Respondent has knowingly and willfully assigned so many felony cases to so few assistant circuit attorneys, the assistants are suffering from health conditions, including exhaustion and seizures from the extraordinary stress," the petition says.

According to the petition, between 2017 and 2020, at least 85 assistant circuit attorneys either resigned or were fired from the office.

Man, oh, man. I can't wait.

Gardner has lost almost all of her political supporters....as least the ones that matter. She still has a loudmouth group of BLM "activists" who shouted down the reporters at her press conference when this all started.

With the lost of her follow Commie-Dems Party members, the local media has been going after her, actually adding more information to AG Bailey's case against her. The above story is just one of many in the last several weeks. One story documented that several CAO attorneys had over 100 felony cases and trials pending. The national average is 30-35 trials pending. Then there was a story about officers being shot at, shot, and/or stabbed and she refused to issue charges against the suspect(s) because the officer is on her "exclusionary"list.....which no one knows how these officers got on it. There have been reports that a couple officers made social media posts critical of Gardner, while others declined to testify at trials for charged suspects because Gardner has not decided if they are clear or not for shooting the suspect that is on trial. As referenced in the above article, she almost never "clears" an officer in any shooting, keeping the investigation going and going and going, even though there is no new evidence to consider.

Another update, a prosecutor with Gardner's Office with 117 serious felony cases (for trial) assigned to her, has resigned due to the toxic work environment.

Prosecutor resigns from Gardner’s office citing toxic work environment

Longer Article with more details

^^^^
That is one of the best resignation letters I have ever read. It's so unfortunate that someone of that caliber comes to feel it necessary to leave their job for such reasons.

She mentions plans to write a book on her experiences. I can't wait to read it.

Does anyone know the current standing of the complaint against this crooked bitch?

^^^^^^^^

The first hearing in the case to remove her is this Tuesday the 18th.

And the actual Complaint keeps getting longer, as more people come forward with new complaints and evidence.

So far, the only thing Gardner's attorneys have said in response is that she is just completely incompetent and not criminally malicious and she can't be removed for just being an incompetent idiot. No really, that is how they responded to the 120 page plus complaint against her.

The local media outlets got the "Dump Gardner" memo and are now actually doing their jobs.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:
So far, the only thing Gardner's attorneys have said in response is that she is just completely incompetent and not criminally malicious and she can't be removed for just being an incompetent idiot. No really, that is how they responded to the 120 page plus complaint against her.

I dig it.

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The local media outlets got the "Dump Gardner" memo and are now actually doing their jobs.

Local media have also been giving airtime to her claim that an unelected, overzealous AG is attempting to remove a duly elected public official and thus subvert the will of the people.

Fortunately, the overwhelming evidence of her incompetence seems to be swaying even many who normally tend to lean left of center. That leaves the usual suspects for whom every issue revolves around race. Barring a modern day miracle, they will continue to believe that the efforts to remove Gardner arise from systemic racism rather than irrefutable evidence that she is incompetent.

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Local media have also been giving airtime to her claim that an unelected, overzealous AG is attempting to remove a duly elected public official and thus subvert the will of the people.

Well, of course. The St. Louis media, other than 97.1 FM talk radio would never have anything nice to say about a Republican. Cognitive dissonance.

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Originally posted by FiveFiveSixFan:
Barring a modern day miracle, they will continue to believe that the efforts to remove Gardner arise from systemic racism rather than irrefutable evidence that she is incompetent.

...and a racist. Her behavior overall and her reaction (and the shameful reactions of her supporters) to the attempt to remove her, indicate clearly that this gal is as much of a racist as anyone you would have found at a Klan meeting a century ago.

All that shouting at her press conference Why didn't they just cut to the chase and shout "I hate Whitey!"?