Anonymous wrote:I saw this somewhere else this morning, maybe WaPo.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-prosecutors-resignations-donald-trump-political-felons-walk-free/
I tried to find the thread titled something like Trump is enforcing immigration law but gave up after many pages. There are some similar ones but that was the one I most wanted to locate.
The attorney who was prosecuting this case (drug case involving meth) "resigned unexpectedly". A trial date had been set for February although the managed to get an extension to, I think, March 2. The prosecutor had been in the office 40 years but had not been planning to resign. But amidst the shitshow other attorneys have been leaving he bailed. Last summer he had pushed against bond because the guy had a history of no-shows in court, giving false info to police, violating probation, so he stayed in jail. (Meanwhile, immigrants who DO show for their appointments and hearings get detained and sent to eat moldy, worm-ridden food at Dilley.)
The office is so strapped that they threw in the towel. They filed they were dropping the case. The guy's attorney said it was so quick he was out of jail before she even heard.
Remember back when one argument against trying to deport a few million people a year would take resources away from actual crime? So is it preferable to be a crime victim of a citizen perp than a non-citizen perp?
Commenters were complaining about activist liberal judges. Nope, the judge made no decision whatsoever. As for the long string of felonies, presumably there were a lot of lower-level felonies (for the commenters who were indignant that he hadn't already been locked up for life). I looked up court cases in Iowa, Wisconsin, ND, and MN. He had a total of 14 cases in MN and 25 in ND. I didn't find 12 felonies, but he had more felonies in ND (a very red state) than in MN. None in WI or IA