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Originally posted by RichardC:
. 'Disciplinary action, if upheld by a hearing panel and the Missouri Supreme Court, could range from public admonishment to loss of her law license.'


"Public admonishment"? Oh, the horror.

That's what happens when my dog disobeys. He hangs his head and looks ashamed, but I suspect Kim would never do that.

Needs to have the book thrown at her and thrown under the jail after her conviction.. She knew better and still failed to follow the law for her own gain and the gain of others.... She needed to remember that she was held to a higher standard due to the office that she held. .......................... drill sgt.

And when she receives her admonishment sentence we'll see once again that the law means nothing today.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
"Bungled"?
How about ' malignant ' and 'caught ' ?

Bungled, yes. A prosecution, no, it was political lawfare and dirty politics all rolled into one. She's well financed by Soros and there are dozens like her nationwide.

One side story to this is that Greitens ex wife was recently getting advice from Karl Rove about her allegations she recently had spread all over the news. More political dirty tricks.

This is getting interesting. Immediately below is a letter penned by members of the grand jury and following is an article outlining the response from the NAACP which casts aspersions on those writing the letter stating that they "conspired to do harm."



April 12, 2022
[Disciplinary Panel Member] Title
Organization Name
Street Address
City, ST ZIP Code

Dear [ ]:

As members of a Special Grand Jury in the City of St. Louis, convened between November 2018 and July 2019, we are extremely disappointed in the joint stipulation agreement recommended by the Missouri Office of Disciplinary Counsel in the ethics investigation of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. We urge you to consider much stronger disciplinary action in this case. We firmly believe such action is warranted.

During our eight months of Special Grand Jury service, our investigation resulted in the indictment of an individual who was very closely associated with Ms. Gardner. Our work exposed us to activity and behaviors in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office that we considered re disturbing and certainly unethical. What we observed was not inadvertent nor inconsequential but was calculated deceit and/or outright incompetence; neither of which is acceptable behavior for a person holding this public office.

The individual we indicted was accused of many crimes, however, he was a private citizen. In our opinion, Ms. Gardner’s offenses were markedly worse. As a lawyer sworn to uphold the law and as a public servant voted to the city’s highest prosecutorial office, her behavior should be beyond reproach. Yet her disregard for the law, as detailed in both the Special Grand Jury indictment as well as in the ethics charges, is reprehensible. Our assignment as jurors was to investigate the indicted but our efforts revealed Ms. Gardner’s illegal prosecutorial misconduct to the point that we believed her actions were was likely indictable as well. The fact that an ethics review was pending suggested gave us hope that Ms. Gardner would indeed face severe and appropriate consequences.

We respectfully encourage you and your peers on the Disciplinary Panel to seriously consider our opinion – as jurors and as citizens of this city. We are personally invested in the outcome of your investigation. Our months long service was not only very time consuming, it was frustrating, grueling and stressful. A strong message must be delivered in this case. If not, we can only feel our time and energy were wasted.

Sincerely,

Seven (7) Special Grand Jurors from the City of St. Louis, Missouri Juror # Juror # Juror #
Juror # Juror # Juror #

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NAACP alleges jurors in Tisaby case conspired to do harm with letter to judge


Published: May. 11, 2022 at 1:01 PM CDT

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - Following a letter written by grand jurors in the William Tisaby case that slammed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s actions, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released a statement.

Seven jurors sent a letter on April 20th to Judge Rex Burlison, who presided over the Greitens case, and is addressed to a panel that has investigated Gardner for ethical violations. That panel is currently weighing whether to accept Gardner’s settlement agreement in that ethical proceeding and agree to place a formal reprimand on her law license.

“During our eight months of Special Grand Jury service, our investigation resulted in the indictment of an individual who was very closely associated with Ms. Gardner,” the letter reads. “Our work exposed us to activity and behaviors in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office that we considered disturbing and unethical. What we observed was not inadvertent nor inconsequential but was calculated deceit and/or outright incompetence; neither of which is acceptable behavior for a person holding this public office.”

The letter is reportedly signed by seven of the grand jurors who investigated and ultimately indicted the private investigator hired by Gardner, William Don Tisaby. They choose to remain anonymous and expressed concern to Judge Burlison that they did not want to violate their oath of secrecy in the grand jury investigation.

The NAACP responded, “the group of seven jurors conspired “to do harm” and elicited Judge Burlison’s assistance by requesting that you review, advise, edit and distribute in secret to purposefully influence the work of an agency of the Missouri Supreme Court. In Missouri, grand jury proceedings are conducted in secret; and Missouri law both protects grand jurors in their oath and prohibits them from violating it (“swearing jurors to truly keep secret”); unlawful disclosures “shall be deemed guilty of a class A misdemeanor.”


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Missouri law both protects grand jurors in their oath and prohibits them from violating it (“swearing jurors to truly keep secret”); unlawful disclosures “shall be deemed guilty of a class A misdemeanor.”

Oh! Now following the law is important.

I'm tired of these one way streets. Seems one side wants to ignore the law while demanding that the other side toe the line.

She rolled the political dice. Karma would be snake eyes..

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Missouri law both protects grand jurors in their oath and prohibits them from violating it (“swearing jurors to truly keep secret”); unlawful disclosures “shall be deemed guilty of a class A misdemeanor.”

Oh! Now following the law is important.

I'm tired of these one way streets. Seems one side wants to ignore the law while demanding that the other side toe the line.

I've not yet been able to determine how this letter became known to the general public. According to the article, the grand jury members responsible for writing it submitted it to Judge Burlison and "expressed concern to Judge Burlison that they did not want to violate their oath of secrecy in the grand jury investigation." It would be interesting to hear from a lawyer as to the propriety of grand jury members submitting such a letter to the judge who presided over the matter from which the need for their services arose.

An additional question would be to what person or office grand jury members experiencing such concerns could lawfully direct those concerns without violating their oath of secrecy.

Missouri Supreme Court reprimands St. Louis prosecutor

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...4f83b955d396b1440406

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reprimanded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner for mistakes made in the 2018 prosecution of then-Gov. Eric Greitens, but agreed with an advisory counsel's decision that suspension of her law license or disbarment were not merited.

The brief ruling from the state High Court echoed a “joint stipulation” agreement reached in April by Gardner and the Missouri Office of Disciplinary Counsel. In that agreement, Gardner conceded that she failed to produce documents and mistakenly maintained that all documents had been provided to Greitens’ lawyers in the criminal case that played a pivotal role in the Republican's decision to resign in June 2018.

The agreement, stating that Gardner’s conduct “was negligent or perhaps reckless, but not intentional," called for a written reprimand, but it was ultimately up to the Missouri Supreme Court to issue a ruling. In addition to the reprimand for violating rules of professional conduct, the court fined Gardner $750.

Gardner told the disciplinary panel in April that the mistakes were due to the fast-moving nature of the Greitens case.

“I'm pleased that our state's highest court and disciplinary counsel has recognized that the ethics disciplinary process should not be weaponized for political gain,” Gardner said in a statement Tuesday. “I look forward to continuing the critical work of creating a safer, fairer, and just St. Louis.”

Gardner, a 47-year-old Democrat, was first elected in 2016, becoming St. Louis’ first Black female circuit attorney. She is one of several progressive prosecutors elected in recent years with a focus on creating more fairness in the criminal justice system.

Greitens was also elected in 2016. About a year into his term, he acknowledged a 2015 affair with his St. Louis hairdresser. The woman alleged that Greitens took a compromising photo and threatened to use it as blackmail if she spoke of their relationship.

Gardner hired private investigator William Tisaby, a former FBI agent, to investigate, leading to Greitens’ indictment on one felony count of invasion of privacy. Greitens claimed he had been the victim of a political witch hunt.

Jury selection had just begun when a judge ruled Gardner would have to answer questions under oath from Greitens’ attorneys over her handling of the case, prompting her to drop the charge. She said that it put her in an “impossible” position of being a witness in a case she was prosecuting.

Meanwhile, Gardner filed a second charge accusing Greitens of tampering with computer data for allegedly disclosing to his political fundraiser a list of top donors to a veterans charity he founded, without the charity’s permission.

Under investigation by lawmakers as well, Greitens resigned in June 2018, and Gardner agreed to drop the criminal charges.

The case drew renewed attention when Greitens entered the race for one of Missouri's U.S. Senate seats. He finished a distant third in the Aug. 2 Republican primary won by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.

In 2019, Tisaby was indicted on six counts of perjury and one count of evidence tampering. He pleaded guilty in March to misdemeanor evidence tampering and received a suspended sentence of one year of probation.

The case stemmed from Tisaby’s statement that he had not taken notes during an interview with the woman when a video later showed that he had, and his statement that he hadn’t received notes from the prosecutor’s office before he interviewed the hairdresser when a document later showed that he had.

Greitens’ attorneys cited Gardner’s failure to correct the record on Tisaby’s statements, and questioned whether she concealed evidence.

Gardner's tenure has often been tumultuous.

She contends that her reforms have made the city safer and the criminal justice system more equitable. She has expanded a diversion program and stopped prosecuting low-level marijuana possession, helping to significantly reduce jail overcrowding.

But last summer, charges were dropped in three murder cases in one week because prosecutors failed to show up in court or weren’t prepared after months of delay, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The newspaper also cited Circuit Court data showing that about one-third of felony cases were dismissed — triple the percentage of her predecessor.

In 2018, Gardner placed dozens of officers on an “exclusion list,” prohibiting them from bringing cases. The list was developed after a national group accused the officers of posting racist and anti-Muslim comments on social media.

In 2020, Gardner filed a lawsuit accusing the city, a police union and others of a coordinated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of office. The lawsuit alleged violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which was adopted to thwart efforts to deny the civil rights of racial minorities. The case was later dismissed.

Greitens' political future is unclear. His Senate bid was damaged by his ex-wife's claims in a child custody dispute that he was physically abusive. He strongly denied the allegations.

A Missouri judge on Friday issued a ruling in the case but ordered it sealed, and the public cannot read it.

At issue was whether court jurisdiction should remain in Missouri or move to Texas, where Sheena Greitens is now a public affairs professor at the University of Texas. Sheena Greitens asked the court to move the case to the Austin area, in part to spare her children from renewed public attention during her ex-husband's Senate run.

OMG... a SHOCKING $750.00 fine!!! they really showed her.

Now, Greitens really showed his ass, and I hope that idiot never darkens the door of MO politics (and I voted for him) again...

But she is terrible. She is one of the biggest reasons that crime in the city is out of control.

She is terrible at her job, and I'd love to explain it as incompetence... but it's more than that.

If the crime problem is going to start going down in the city, then she needs to get voted out.

Period.

That opinion was a piece of gutless garbage. Equivalent of "strongly worded letter to follow".

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Originally posted by h2oys:
She is an embarrassment to my home town.

She's just embarrassment period.

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