DWI case disappears in Collin County court system

POLICE VIDEOED DISPATCHING 7 COP CARS TO GIVE COOPERATIVE MOPED RIDER TRAFFIC TICKET, TICKET COST $2K

( Unbelievable. Professional Police Embarrassment.

Actually, TOTALLY believable.

“ Rally For The Red, FILM the Blue”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Night Of The Long Knives II

CURTIS HOWARD DEMOTED OVER DWI FIX DEBACLE
AS PREDICTED, ever so loyal prosecutor Curtis Howard’s career under DA John Roach has been cut down a notch.

Another vassal sacrificed in the name of plausible deniability for our DA?

NEXT PREDICTIONS:

• There will be a pretext of a “full investigation”,

• The investigation will be only internal at worst, or at best conducted by a shill,

• The investigation will never actually be complete, thus the stonewalling by the Roach’s office for freedom of information will continue ad infinitum because “the investigation is still ongoing”,

• No public report containing any germane content will ever be released to the public,

• The CC DA’s office will continue business as usual: convict at all costs (as opposed to “Seeking Justice”) work heavily shielded from public view and inspection.

Because remember people:

“we don’t have the right to know what OUR employees are doing” in Collin County.


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“On Monday's Commissioners Court agenda is the line item, "AI-31093 Personnel Changes, Human Resources."

A look at the background information in the court's meeting packet reveals that one of the personnel changes is THE DEMOTION OF CURTIS HOWARD from Second Assistant DA to Chief Felony Prosecutor.

As part of the demotion, Howard will see his pay cut 5% from $104,393 per year to $99,174.

HOWARD IS THE 3RD PERSON TO FALL after WFAA's Brett Shipp published a story alleging that a wealthy DWI defendant had his case "vanish in the Collin County Court system".

Earlier this month, Chief Misdemeanor PROSECUTOR KERRIE WALKER RESIGNED HER JOB at the District Attorney's office.

She was the person named by Shipp as the prosecutor who forced an acquittal of the DWI defendant with a 'stand and rest' tactic before a visiting judge.

Last month, PROSECUTOR BRAD CLEMENTS RESIGNED after writing an email that described the circumstances of the case in a general criticism of the county's prosecution of indigent and poor defendants.

CLEMENTS ACCUSATION THAT WEALTHY, WELL CONNECTED DEFENDANTS RECEIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT HAS NEVER BEEN ANSWERED BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY or his office.

District Attorney John Roach has:

• promised a full investigation, but

• has never said when the investigation would be complete, or

• if a report would be made public.

The Collin County Observer has called for an independent jurist to conduct an impartial inquiry.”

http://www.baumbach.org/b2evolution/blogs/ind...

Willis is completely unqualified for DA. Unless you think doing misdemeanor plea deals gives you all the criminal law experience a DA needs to be a hands-on, ready-on-day-one leader/mentor of felony prosecutors. How many felony jury trials has Willis done as a prosecutor? There seems to be a lot of mindless following of the herd on this one as opposed to an objective evaluation on the merits of the various candidates.

The video is funny only because the guy who was pulled over looks exactly like most of the MPD.

Also, I think the guy is lucky to be alive, they could have killed him and said they were threatened but the dash cam was on.

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The video is funny only because the guy who was pulled over looks exactly like most of the MPD.
Also, I think the guy is lucky to be alive, they could have killed him and said they were threatened but the dash cam was on.

No Incumbents 2010 wrote:

Willis is completely unqualified for DA. Unless you think doing misdemeanor plea deals gives you all the criminal law experience a DA needs to be a hands-on, ready-on-day-one leader/mentor of felony prosecutors. How many felony jury trials has Willis done as a prosecutor? There seems to be a lot of mindless following of the herd on this one as opposed to an objective evaluation on the merits of the various candidates.

Hey screwball, who said anything about Willis, or any other candidate, for that matter?

The issue on this thread appears to be centered around DA Roach and his employees being unethical, if not lawbreakers. And, the lack of justice in the Collin County court system.

TWO LOCAL JUDGES TARGETS OF GRAND JURY INVESTIGATIONS

The Collin County Observer has learned that two Collin County judges are currently the targets of separate grand jury investigations.

Court house observers I have spoken with suspect that both investigations are POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.

Judge Suzanne Wooten, of the 380th District Court has recused herself from all criminal trials for several months now after, my sources tell me, the former judge she defeated brought forth charges of illegal campaign finance transactions.

And Judge Greg Willis, who recently resigned as judge of the County Court at Law #6 is, according to court house insiders, the target of an investigation alleging possible irregular authorization of payments to defense attorneys representing indigent defendants.
Grand Jury proceedings are, by TEXAS law, SECRET. The particulars of both cases can not be known unless and until the grand jury hands down indictments.

The Observer can not and does not know what testimony has been given or exactly what the allegations are. What this author does know is that the Collin County court house is abuzz with rumors.

According to court house insiders, it is likely that former judge ROBERT SANDOVAL filed his charges against Judge Wooten directly with the grand jury.

Sandoval is said to still BEAR A GRUDGE against Wooten who beat him handily in the 2008 election.

The most popular explanation I've heard for the investigation against Willis is that DA JOHN ROACH AND HIS CHIEF ASSISTANTS DO NOT WANT JUDGE WILLIS TO BECOME THE NEXT DISTRICT ATTORNEY -

THEY BELIEVE THAT IF HE IS ELECTED, HE WILL "CLEAN HOUSE" BY REPLACING MANY OF THE LEAD PROSECUTORS.

LOCAL ATTORNEYS POINT TO WHAT THEY SAY IS A HISTORY OF USING GRAND JURIES FOR INTIMIDATION BY DA ROACH AND CHRIS MILNER, THE CHIEF OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S SPECIAL CRIMES DIVISION.

Milner has, in the past, been accused of USING GRAND JURIES TO "GO AFTER PEOPLE".

They bring up Milner's indictment of local attorneys Deric Walpole and James Vasilas who were indicted by Milner for "tampering with government records" for making an error on a legal pleading. Both indictments were eventually thrown out.

Milner also investigated the allegations of fraud between Dallas County Sheriff Bowles and jail contractor Jack Madera. All indictments were later tossed, but not before Bowles lost his primary bid for nomination as sheriff.

Regardless of the merits of either case, the prosecution of a judge by the DA, who on a daily basis pleads before that same judge, opens the door to charges of POLITICAL INTIMIDATION.

Every day, members of the district attorney's staff appear before our judges and make motions, ask for pleas, and argue cases.

Every day, our judges make decisions to accept or reject those motions and pleas.

Every day they hold trials where they try to remain fair to both the defendant and the DA.

It is insane for a county district attorney to prosecute the county's own judges.

IF JOHN ROACH BELIEVES THERE MAY HAVE BEEN WRONG DOING BY EITHER JUDGE, THEN JUSTICE REQUIRES THAT HE ASK AN OUTSIDER, WITH NO VESTED INTEREST IN THE OUTCOME, TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE IF WARRANTED.

It is wrong for the Collin County District Attorney to proffer charges against a jurist who seeks to use the ballot box to replace him.

The fact that these two cases have proceeded this far SMACKS OF ARROGANCE ON THE PART OF THE COLLIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN ROACH.

HIS ACTIONS LOOK LIKE CHEAP AND BRUTAL POLITICAL STUNTS.

IF JUSTICE IS TO BE SERVED, Roach and his staff must either drop their investigations, or turn over their evidence to a special prosecutor and let him convene a new grand jury to hear the charges.

Article by Bill Baumbach, Collin County Observer:

http://www.baumbach.org/b2evolution/blogs/ind...

Immunity strikes again:“Federal judge says Pennsylvania judges who illegally sent kids to juvenile detention facilities in exchange for kickbacks can’t be sued for decisions they made on the bench.

Even if those decisions involved, you know, illegally sending children to juvenile detention facilities in exchange for kickbacks.”

http://www.theagitator.com/2009/11/25/morning...

OK. Let’s discuss this immunity thing once again. Three bets are involved.

The first bet is that 99.7% of the people in this country do not know that THE LAW GRANTS IMMUNITY to Judges, Prosecutors, District Attorneys, Police Officers, etc. WHO BREAK THE LAW.

The second bet is that virtually no American citizen ever VOTED for such an un- American law.

This immunity doctrine stems directly from history’s “sovereign immunity” laws of past Kings, Queens and Tyrants. After all, if you ARE the law – as embodied by a King – then you can not and will not rule against yourself.

What happens when human beings are subject to no laws? What happens when virtually no matter what they do, they know they can not be punished? What happens when they are literally “above the law”?

History shows us the obvious answer by recounting the murdered millions upon millions of innocents damned at the very whim of despots who were “above the law”.

The rampant corruption within Collin County government for example is widely known and has recently been coming under ever increasing criticism. One only has to look at the immunity laws to understand why such lawbreakers have nothing to worry about and act so brazenly.

THIS COUNTRY has fought wars and been bled nearly dry throughout it’s short history to assure that all men are equal – and that includes being equal in terms of laws. Our country is literally founded upon this principle.

When George Washington was being put into the first leadership position of our young democratic republic some people wanted to make him the “King of America”– literally. Washington thought the idea was ludicrous, pointing out that one of THE purposes of the Revolutionary War was to free us from the whims of tyrants who were above the law. Thus we have presidents and a democratic republic – not a monarchy within America.

Proven criminals should be held accountable – regardless of their job title. Can anyone seriously argue otherwise?

WHO PUT these immunity laws in place within our governing body of laws? It was not the American people. It was the beneficiaries of such laws - Judges, Prosecutors, Politicians, District Attorneys, Police Officers and other government officials.

Such laws were never put to the American people for a vote – because the outcome would have been obvious: Certain defeat by citizen’s outraged by even the thought of such insanity.

Here’s the third bet. At your office or next social gathering, etc. simply go around and ask people at random if they believed that certain government officials such as Judges, Prosecutors, District Attorneys, Police Officers can BREAK THE LAW WITH IMPUNITY in America, by law?

Ask them that, if such were the case, should such laws been immediately eliminated?

Keep a tally of the responses and write back with your findings…….