[marktwain]

Failure to prosecute Wilcox, who was indicted on numerous felony counts by two grand juries, was a political decision by acting Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, a long-time political ally of Wilcox, not lack of evidence.

http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-phoenix/larry-naman-s-now-a-free-man-wilcox-is-still-a-county-supervisor

[originalbuckeye]

And Romley was supposedly a Republican.