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2020-07-30 Home Front: Politix
Judge rules St. Louis prosecutor must release records in bungled prosecution of ex-governor
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[Just The News] Circuit attorney has ignored open records request for over a year concerning records in bungled prosecution against former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens

A judge has ordered the chief prosecutor for St. Louis to release records from the bungled prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens following a yearlong fight to obtain those records through a state sunshine law request.

The sunshine request, brought by Just the News founder John Solomon, was presented to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardener last July. The query sought the release of roughly two and a half years' worth of communications between Gardner, her staff, and numerous individuals such as George Soros, the Missouri Workforce Housing Association, state Representatives Stacy Newman and Jay Barnes, and others.

Gardner first ignored the request and then claimed that the requested documents were exempt from the state's sunshine provision.

Solomon's legal team, from the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Freedom Center of Missouri, said in a filing in April that those decisions by Gardner's office were knowing violations of Missouri's sunshine law. In that filing they asked for the release of the documents and for the awarding of several thousand dollars' worth of damages pursuant to state statute.

Circuit Judge Christopher McGraugh ruled in Solomon's favor on Monday. The circuit attorney's office has signaled it will appeal the order.

Gardner "had no excuse for refusing to respond to Mr. Solomon's lawsuit, just as she had no excuse for refusing to produce the open public records he requested more than a year ago," Freedom Center of Missouri Attorney Dave Roland said Tuesday.

"We applaud Judge McGraugh for granting judgment in Mr. Solomon's favor due to the Circuit Attorney's reckless, dilatory, and intentional choice to flout the law," he added.

Gardner's office is "responsible not only for knowing the law, but for making sure it is applied fairly and properly," said SLF General Counsel Kimberly Hermann. "It is unconscionable that a prosecuting attorney would directly disobey not only the Sunshine Law, but also a direct court order."
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top
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#1 "Bungled".
Posted by charger 2020-07-30 01:22||   2020-07-30 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 During Greitens’ felony invasion of privacy trial in May 2018, a forensic examiner extracted data from Greitens’ cellphone and email account. It revealed no photograph of Sneed was ever taken or deleted by Greitens. Gardner withdrew her indictment of Greitens when the judge ordered that Gardner herself would have to testify in the case. Now, damning evidence has surfaced allegedly proving Sneed repeatedly perjured herself in her bid to frame the former governor and Navy Seal.
Posted by b 2020-07-30 09:28||   2020-07-30 09:28|| Front Page Top

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