Bad Prosecutors
The WSJ has good commentary comparing crooked prosecutors Nifong and Fitzgerald in “A Tale of Two Prosecutors Mike Nifong is punished, but Patrick Fitzgerald isn’t.”
Just what serious obstruction of justice Mr. Libby could have been guilty of, then, was, at the least, a heady question, though not one, clearly, that raised any doubts in the judge. Neither did Mr. Fitzgerald’s charge–also in pursuit of a heavy sentence–that the defendant had caused, by his obstruction, no end of trouble and expense in government effort.
The obligation to truth, the prosecutor argued, was of the highest importance, and one in which Mr. Libby had failed by perjuring himself. It would be hard to dispute the first contention. It is no less hard to avoid the memory of Mr. Fitzgerald’s own dubious relation to truth and honesty–as, for example, in his failure to disclose that he had known all along the identity of the person who had leaked the Valerie Plame story. That person, he knew, was Richard Armitage, deputy to Colin Powell. Not only had he concealed this knowledge–in what was, supposedly all that time, a quest to discover the criminals responsible for the leak of a covert agent’s name–he had instructed both Mr. Armitage and his superior, Colin Powell, in whom Mr. Armitage had confided, not to reveal the truth.
Special prosecutor Fitzgerald did, of course, have a duty to keep his investigation secret during grand jury proceedings, according to the rules. He did not have the power to order witnesses at those proceedings not to disclose their testimony or tell what they knew. Instead, Mr. Fitzgerald requested Messrs. Armitage and Powell to keep quiet about the leaker’s identity–a request they understandably treated as an order. Why the prosecutor sought this secrecy can be no mystery–it was the way to keep the grand jury proceedings going, on a fishing expedition, that could yield witnesses who stumbled, or were entrapped, into “obstruction” or “lying” violations. It was its own testament to the nature of this prosecution–and the prosecutor.
July 5th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
During my divorce of a 6 month marriage, the only item disputed and returned to me in the decree was an old car trailer gifted to me from my wife, during the better time of our marriage. I was then charged two counts of forgery and theft against my own property. The judge addressed the criminal charges in the final decree stating the charge of forgery cannot be proven or dosproven. The judge also made comments as to my wifes close personel relationship with the prosecutors office and the highly unusual way my wife was able to get criminal charges filed against me on an item that was disputed and returned to me in the final divorce. I had witnesses and two forensic experts testify in my final divorce proceeding in my favor. I had a former employee of mine testify that he was present when my now exwife had gifted me the trailer with the title already signed by my exwife.The prosecutors said they would dismiss the charges if this happened then they breached that agreement. They then refused 3 superior court orders to return my trailer with the contents. I then filed a complaint against the prosecutors. They were questioned by the Statr bar; they lied to the bar councel and the complaints were dismissed.
I have made 44 appearences in court on this. The prosecutors keep coming up with bogus ways to continue this while my 3rd attorney allows this “Collusion” to continue.
The judges on my case have made many bad statements against me in court. They are all mad because i got one of there attorney friends in trouble with the bar for alot of stuff. I am preparing complaints against the judge on my case now.
I hope you will get back to me on this. I have now hired the forensic experts a second time on my matter. They examined my examplers and ruled the same completely in my favor. This time they examined the samples my exwife gave to the prosecutors office along with addirional court documents to verify her normal range of writing. The forensic experts stated her writing in 24 areas of the working set of documents I provided twice do match her signature on the title. They also found that the samples she gave the prosecutors office were after the fact and did not match her normal range of writing at all; they didn’t even meet minimal standard for hand writing exemplars. this was a setup.
The prosecutors in this refuse to dismiss the charges against me. The Arizona State Bar refuse to put pressure on them.
I need some help on this. I have refinanced my home and have sold almost everything I own to finance a bogus defense. All these guys are doing is making me spend money in hopes I will plead guilty……that will never happen. In the mean time I need some help on this……..if you can help my email is above and my cell phone # is 928-503-5954
Forgive me for the long comment…….. Thanks,
Danny