...he’s not alone in Austin! Lower echelon regulators, bureaucrats and prosecutors are daily making life miserable for MANY others as well. I was forced to endure 3 criminal jury trials over 2 years at a cost to me of nearly $10,000 each for a building code violation. Austin’s case was so bad and so weak and so non-sensical that 3 juries, no doubt of liberal leanings, decided in my favor, A NASTY OLD DEVELOPER, all three times.
What was my crime? I moved a tenant in a brand new shopping center that was not even in Austin’s city limits without getting their final bureaucrats approval LETTER. The hitch for the City, and ONE reason they lost all 3 times was that I could not have moved ANYBODY in without their expressed written approval. The right arm simply did not know what the left arm was doing. Or, put another way, Austin’s new Environmental Police Force, listening to certain of their Inspection Department buddies, simply decided “let’s get him”. Advantage to the City to criminalize a building code violation ??? Simple. In criminal court, the alledged criminal has to show up for ALL hearings or be arrested! They drug me and my attorney into court approximately a dozen times over 2-3 years with the clear goal of running up my attorney fees, wearing me down and hoping I would surrender. And, oh by the way, the potential fines, could have been in the mid six figures. Government, at all levels, is simply OUT OF CONTROL.
So are you going after restitution!!