“Prosecutors have acknowledged not having the supposed picture.”
Sounds just like FR as you guys always need a picture to determine guilt. especially Laz... he’s pretty lenient
This is the invasion of privacy charge. The felony computer tampering charge is still out there.
The b*tches in the MOGOP can go to hell for trying to impeach Greitens.
He wasn’t guilty of doing anything wrong.
Hmm. The governor was accused of taking a picture without the subject’s permission. But the “picture” may never have existed. The prosecution certainly never got their hands on it.
Reminds me of “lawfare” against Governor Palin and of course the “lawfare” against President Trump.
Circuit Judge Rex Burlison’s “unprecedented” order “places the Circuit Attorney in the impossible position of being a witness, subject to cross-examination within the offer of proof by her own subordinates,”
Unclear at this hour was the statute of limitations issue. Gardner took the case to the grand jury quickly because the statute of limitations was soon to expire.
Defense lawyers wanted to call Gardner because for weeks they have accused her of misconduct. They said she allowed a former lead investigator in the case to commit perjury.
The statement called the tactic part of “a scorched-earth legal and media strategy” that included attacks on “the intentions, character and integrity of every person involved in investigating the Governor’s behavior including Missouri House Committee members, the Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney and her team, his victim, her family and those who have called for his resignation,” Ryan’s statement said.
The defense has accused investigator William Don Tisaby of putting “words in the mouth” of witnesses and removing information favorable to Greitens from reports. He said in a sworn statement that he didn’t take notes during his interviews, but was caught on video taking notes. Tisaby asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a second deposition, and Burlison had seemed unwilling to allow the defense to call him. Prosecutors have said Tisaby was used only to locate and interview a few witnesses, and they never planned to call him at trial.
The case was dismissed as investigators were unable to find data or photographic evidence to bolster their case in Greitens’ phone, email or Apple iCloud account. There also was no evidence that a photo had been deleted on the day Greitens’ relationship with his hairdresser first became sexual, in 2015, before he publicly announced his run for governor.
Bring charges for nekkid picture.
Don’t have nekkid picture.
This prosecutorial team is well on its way to DOJ level performance. They are going places.
Whatever happened to sex between consulting adults? That’s all I heard 20 years ago
Witch hunt by a witch, Gardner.
Way out of bounds and certainly misconduct.
according to the liberal mental defectives-— just as in the Justice Thomas confirmation hearing:
“the evidence is not what is important....it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters !”
Another Democratic witch hunt
Greitens’ attorneys have criticized Gardner’s handling of the case, particularly her hiring of private investigator William Tisaby, who Greitens’ lawyers have accused of perjury.
Because of the questions surrounding Tisaby’s credibility, Gardner’s presence in the interviews he conducted opened her up to being a witness.
“When we started to learn the investigator, Tisaby, was going to have problems, Kim Gardner being part of those interviews becomes an important part to the defense’s case,” said defense attorney and legal expert Kristi Flint. “Having the problems with Tisaby, and his credibility issues, then put Gardner as a witness because her investigator is no longer there for her.”
Given the problems with this case, the fact they don’t have a photograph, the fact they stopped looking for a photograph, the fact they don’t have anyone who saw a photograph or that it was transmitted to someone, it’s going to be a difficult case” Flint added “I imagine there is going to be a lot of thinking before it’s filed again.”
Greitens was accused of taking and transmitting a nonconsensual photo of an at least partially nude woman with whom he had an affair in 2015.
The woman, who has been identified only as K.S. in court filings, has testified that Greitens bound her hands to exercise equipment in March 2015 in the basement of his St. Louis home, blindfolded her and removed her clothes before she saw a flash and heard what sounded like the click of a cell phone camera. She has said Greitens threatened to disseminate the photo if she spoke of their encounter but later told her he had deleted it.
Must be from Missouri.
“Show Me” State bump
The gals there are not kidding:)
It is NOT the nature of the evidence; it is the SERIOUSNESS of the charge.
Have we learned nothing from Dan Rather and Kinko’s?
St Louis legal mafia crashes and burns. Smile!
Been there. MO has been saturated with a warped, country girl, meth-head feminazism for a long time. The paradigm was imported from western states during the 1970s and 1980s and enshrined into laws and policies. It pretends to be old fashioned and pushes a system of anti-family, fake morality. It’s really a political/regulator class family-buster to keep hard working, non-political-class people in slavery. Many of the churches are propaganda outlets for it. And when you see an example of it with your own eyes, its quite grotesque.
It keeps labor low and families from rising to compete in business or politics, just like everywhere else.
Little advice on surviving in MO. Stay completely away from the drugs, booze, STDs and alimony/support magnets. Become desensitized to nausea when viewing extremely disgusting things. If you’re in good physical condition, cover up with plenty of baggy clothing to avoid standing out. Careful what you say. Avoid being perceived as a learner.
And BTW, politicians like Greitens are your only hope to avoid recurrences of a much harsher kind of corruption and deeper slavery. Support them much. Cling to them as if your life depended on them, because it does.
This entire fiasco was run by an STL prosecutor with a vendetta against Greitens.
MO Dems can all go piss up a rope for all I care.
It's beginning to seem the term "special" prosecutor stands for special needs.
Prosecutors filing charges alleging they have evidence and then admitting they don’t...
...need to be Nifonged.
Another ham sandwich indictment?