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Posted on 07/14/2013 6:16:15 PM PDT by maggief
MIKE HUCKABEE: You have said that you thought the prosecutor ought to be disbarred, that's a pretty serious type of violation to get a person disbarred. It is that serious to you?
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Right, it is. She submitted an affidavit that was, if not perjurious, completely misleading. She violated all kinds of rules of the profession, and her conduct bordered on criminal conduct. She, by the way, has a horrible reputation in Florida. She's known for overcharging, she's known for being highly political. And in this case, of course she overcharged. Halfway through the trial she realized she wasn't going to get a second degree murder verdict, so she asked for a compromised verdict, for manslaughter. And then, she went even further and said that she was going to charge him with child abuse and felony murder. That was such a stretch that it goes beyond anything professionally responsible. She was among the most irresponsible prosecutors I've seen in 50 years of litigating cases, and believe me, I've seen good prosecutors, bad prosecutors, but rarely have I seen one as bad as this prosecutor, [Angela] Cory.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
She was set up to bomb, thereby getting rid of her. Use your weakest people when you know failure is inevitable. Win win for top management
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/14/justice/florida-teen-shooting
03/14/12
In a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the NAACP expressed doubt in the Sanford Police Department and asked the Department of Justice to review the case.
“The NAACP has no confidence that, absent federal oversight, the Sanford Police Department will devote the necessary degree of care to its investigation. We therefore call upon you to detail personnel to Sanford immediately to review the facts, ensure that the Sanford Police Department conducts an impartial, thorough and prompt investigation of the circumstances involving the death of this unarmed teen, and ensure that the responsible person is held accountable if a crime was committed,” the letter said.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/03/19/US-to-investigate-killing-of-Fla-teen/UPI-85941332170292/
03/19/12
Ben Crump, an attorney for the Martin family, said he has written a letter requesting an investigation to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the letter has gone to several members of Congress, who are urging Holder to involve the FBI.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/03/19/US-to-investigate-killing-of-Fla-teen/UPI-85941332170292/
U.S. to investigate killing of Fla. teen
03/19/12
The announcement that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the FBI will conduct the investigation came at the same time as Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement saying he had requested the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to offer appropriate resources in the matter, the Herald reported.
Disbarred. I would tend to believe that a civil lawsuit will be coming her way...bankrupt the b*tch.
She was definitely out of control last night on TV.
Rick Scott did this because he is a Coward!
I think you are on to something.
The NAACP had been previously critical of Corey for her “willingness to charge minors as adults, many of them black teenage males.”
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http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082308/met_322003587.shtml
ANGELA COREY
A quarter of her jury trial murder convictions reversed on appeal.
Corey said her number of reversals is a product of the number of murder cases she’s tried - 47 since 1990 compared with Plotkin’s 17.
In two cases, the appellate courts specifically cited her conduct at trial. In one, the court criticized her hitting a table with a hammer during closing arguments, which Corey said she did to demonstrate the force it would have taken to commit the murder. In another, the court said she improperly criticized a defendant, who changed her story and accused her teenage son of shooting her husband. Corey said her words may have been “inartful,” but she stands by a prosecutor’s right to attack the credibility of a defendant “who commits perjury on the stand.”
But she said reasons for reversals sometimes don’t have anything to do with the prosecutor. She cited a case she tried in 2000 when the appeals court reversed a murder conviction on grounds that the trial judge should have allowed the defendant to represent himself. Other reasons in her cases include improper jury instructions or legal changes to trial procedures.
Her relationship with police.
Plotkin has questioned whether Corey fairly can evaluate police misconduct or be independent from the police unions that have endorsed her. But Corey said a partnership of trust and confidence between police and prosecutors, which doesn’t exist now, is crucial for public safety in the 4th Circuit.
(snip)
Why she was fired by Shorstein.
Corey believes her firing in 2006 clearly was political after she told Plotkin she was planning to run for state attorney. Before then, she said she received good evaluations, awards and letters of commendation from Shorstein and his predecessor, Ed Austin.
“Only when I announced face-to-face, looking straight into Jay Plotkin’s eyes, did things change, and in fact they became very ugly,” she said.
As for the allegation from Shorstein and Plotkin that she was “insubordinate,” she said it is disingenuous and 2-year-old news. She makes no apologies for standing up to Shorstein “on the occasions I felt like he was wrong.” She said she did that to improve the office, not for political gain.
(snip)
Let’s hope someone out there is not clinging to ‘Mississppi Burning’ as there vision of America.
...I think you’ll find yourself waiting a long time for something like that to happen...
She should definitely be removed from the job she now holds, and yes: She should be disbarred.
Bill Cosby isn’t much better - he just (verbally) went after the Tea Party. He has gone after Limbaugh and others who do not support Obama and he is obsessed with imaginary racism against blacks.
While Corey may or may not be a bad prosecutor, there were definitely political motivations behind this trial. I am unwilling to punish her because USDOJ and a couple of race hustlers put emotion before fact.
“Bill Cosby tried...and he got shunned”
Yeah, and he was BILL COSBY.
I’m white, but I feel a lot of empathy for black people, I like them very well. But sadly a great deal of that community is in a complete thrall to the left.
I remember distinctly a caller to a radio show, I always think of him as “the irate black man”. I forget what the issue du jour was, but it somehow involved some young black guy(s) who got shot or killed or something while they were doing, or not doing, something. Definitely NOT about Trayvon Martin, this was years ago.
Well the guy calls the radio station and he is beside himself. He is so angry he can barely speak. But what he is trying to convey is that the black community needs to start asking itself what they are doing wrong that their young men keep ending up in situations like this.
I said to myself, if I was black, and a guy, I’d be that guy.
The fact is that something like 97% of black murder victims are killed by other black people. White people cannot solve this problem. Only black people can solve this problem.
I wish Obama might have helped them, but he only cares about himself and the radical (white-*ssed) left.
Doesn’t this remind you of the Duke Lacross case? Media went after some white Duke Lacross teenagers accusing them of raping a black woman. Turned out the black woman made up the whole story
I know your heart is in the right place, but you are kidding, right??
I am going to do my part to see that happen.
If Alan Dershowitz wants to do more about this than just grandstand, he could file a formal complaint with the Florida Bar Association. There is a hot link to the appropriate forms right on the front page of their website. A complaint from Alan Dershowitz would get some attention - it wouldn’t get buried in a stack. If Angela Corey’s actions are as egregious as he claims (and they appear), such a complaint could result in a disciplinary hearing and possible action. He just needs to get the ball rolling.
What's the B stand for?
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