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| 2020-07-13 | ||
| PowerLine via Instapundit Kimberly Gardner is the St. Louis prosecutor who caused a warrant to be served on the McCloskeys, the couple that brandished, but did not fire, guns when a mob broke into their property and threatened them. Gardner has threatened to prosecute the McCloskeys for violent assault. Gardner’s record as St. Louis Circuit Attorney is abysmal. I’m told that her conviction rate is only around 20 percent in cases tried to verdict. That’s an astoundingly low success rate given all of the advantages prosecutors have. But Gardner operates with a handicap. Competent prosecutors don’t want to work for her. Her office has experienced a more than 100 percent turnover in staff since she took office in 2017.
Fortunately, Gardner faces a serious challenger in next month’s Democratic primary. That challenger is Mary Pat Carl. Carl served in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office for 14 years. She was its lead prosecutor in homicide cases. She worked thousands of cases and, unlike Gardner, had a record of success. Currently, Carl is a partner in a major St. Louis law firm. Mark Arnold, our friend and a longtime Power Line reader, is also a partner there. He strongly backs Carl in this race. Carl does not share all of my views on criminal law. If she did, she would stand no chance of winning the Democratic primary, which, for St. Louis, is the only game in town. Instead, Carl is like the Northern Virginia Democratic competent and conscientious incumbent prosecutors we backed against Soros-funded radicals. Like those prosecutors, Carl’s positions are sensible. She wants to mend fences with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. "I think you can hold the police accountable, without going to war with the police," she says. Carl also wants to build up the prosecutors’ office. Under Gardner, it is down to around 20 attorneys. She wants to return it to around 50. Most importantly, Carl understands that the job of the St. Louis prosecutor is to promote community safety in St. Louis. Indeed, that’s the message at the top of her campaign website. Kim Gardner isn’t promoting community safety, she is undermining it. Undermining it by releasing rioters, by losing a shocking percentage of her cases, and by persecuting the McCloskeys for scaring away those who threatened to harm them. On top of everything else, Gardner is crooked. | ||
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #11 Nice. This guy comes to mind. He eventually gave up and decided there weren't any. Now, he did find a dog.. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-07-13 21:41 |
| #10 Groan lonely old codgers and crones, "Go diagnose this on yer phones!" An obvious symptom Of cynical gimpdom. "Get off our Diogenous zones!" Goes without saying that that's strictly autobiographical. |
| Posted by: Angusosing Munster8609 2020-07-13 20:24 |
| #9 ^😒 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 17:38 |
| #8 (hope his statue doesn't get toppled because I posted it on here) |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-07-13 17:38 |
| #7 This guy comes to mind. He eventually gave up and decided there weren't any. |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-07-13 17:28 |
| #6 ^Wasn't there some Greek who was happy to find one (1) honest man? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 16:05 |
| #5 Her office has experienced a more than 100 percent turnover in staff since she took office in 2017. Too bad Trump didn't have 100% turnover of the Justice and State department staffs after taking office in 2017. Would've made a huge difference but it's never too late to clean house. |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-07-13 16:03 |
| #4 Why in hell is there a link to Jeff Jarvis from a site like this one? Where? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-13 15:51 |
| #3 Soros. 'Nuff said. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-07-13 13:06 |
| #2 Broken clock - he's right on this |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-13 12:50 |
| #1 I know I don't post here as often as I once did, so maybe I shouldn't say anything, but........ Why in hell is there a link to Jeff Jarvis from a site like this one? Whatever good he had to say back in 2001, he is a stark raving toxic moonbat communist. In his own way he's worse than Charles Johnson ever was. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2020-07-13 12:16 |