Judge clears way for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to go to trial

KMOV ^ | 5/2/23 | Stephanie Usery

[CFW]

Several counts brought against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will move forward.

Tuesday, Judge John Torbitzky ruled there was enough evidence to move seven of the 10 counts brought against Gardner forward. The lawsuit accuses Gardner of willfully neglecting her office.

The counts allowed to move forward allege that Gardner “has refused to perform a number of duties attendant to her office as Circuit Attorney,” the motion reads. The judge wrote that there was enough evidence for those counts to move forward.

The three counts not moving forward are “isolated incidents to which the same inference of intentional failure cannot be attributed,” according to the order.

[CFW]

The local state judges must be really fed up at the mismanagement from Gardner's office. Most judges give the prosecutors' office a lot of leeway in how they operate their office and when they file a motion stating they are not ready for a case to proceed to trial, most judges rubber-stamp at least a one-month continuance. Gardner's office must be really, really bad!

I read that two more attorneys have left the prosecutor's office leaving the office with just a skeleton staff who are unable to manage the case load.

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/another-prosecutor-resigns-from-kim-gardners-office/

[FlingWingFlyer]

Throw her azz in jail where it belongs.

[technically right]

Another example of the results of Affirmative Action.

[CFW]

Gardner has finally read the writing on the wall. She has resigned.

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/05/04/breaking-kim-gardner-has-resigned-n741259

“Earlier on Thursday, we wrote about St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner seeking a motion to dismiss the attempt to remove her from office. The process began on February 23 when the Missouri Attorney General’s office filed the quo warranto—which as my colleague Susie Moore explained, stemmed from “serious allegations of malfeasance on the part of her office”—after a request that Gardner resign immediately.

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“Garner’s filing failed on Thursday, however. But now, she has resigned.”