As if ther’s not enough to talk about today already.
It didn’t take a legal expert to know that the charges against State Patrol trooper Ryan Londregan were unsustainable.
Mary Moriarty had to spend a million bucks [1] to find that out.
Which, we found out during the weekend news dump, she apparently did:
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Sunday that she will dismiss murder and manslaughter charges against state trooper Ryan Londregan in the shooting death of motorist Ricky Cobb II last summer.
Moriarty told the Star Tribune that her unexpected decision comes in response to a prosecution expert’s new analysis of video from the scene and recent statements by Londregan’s defense attorney.
But rest assured, progressive base – it’s not because she doesn’t want to stick it to a copper:
“We could theoretically prosecute this and just let the jury decide,” she said. “However, we ethically can’t do that because we don’t believe at this point that we can disprove that affirmative defense.”
“This is not a situation of us backing down,” Moriarty said, adding that the killing last week of Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell did not influence her decision.
“It is a situation of recognizing that, given all the barriers that are put in place in these types of cases and the new information that came up, we just can’t ethically go forward.”
Londregan’s attorney was refreshingly un-lawyerly in his comments:
“It’s about goddamn time,” [Attorney Chris] Madel said. “That’s going to be about my only on-the-record comment.”
Everything Mary Moriarty touches turns to crap.
Almost-and-hopefully-future Attorney General Jim Schultz spoke for many of us:
Actualy justice, of course, would involve Mary Moriarty filing for unemployment, and possibly lawyering up to face litigation for the damage she’s caused.
Yet she will win re-election with 85% of the vote, unless an actual political opposition erupts in Minneapolis.
Real justice would not just be Moriarty in the unemployment line, but disbarred for apparently withholding exonerating information until the police union figured out that the person who gave that exonerating information (a) most likely talked to her office (b) was quite willing to share that with the defense. The articles when it came out did not indicate that this had been shared in the ordinary way.
What an amazingly nonsensical statement about not backing down from that stupid bitter woman. That was well-worth including in this post; thanks.
You may see opposition to her the next time – if Ken Martin and the gang decide she’s Bad for Business, they’ll shuffle her off to a nonprofit tout suite.
Until I see the final, full, and certified accounting of the outside contract, I’m going to maintain that they hung on just long enough to earn the full paycheck. Mary talks about “new” evidence, but nothing is new.
I’ll be interested in seeing the lawsuit against Mary and her office in Federal Court. I think there’s a decent chance that she could be severely reprimanded for trying to hide the original use of force expert’s opinion that the HennCo Attorney’s Office received that stated it was within policy and best records. Hiding exculpatory evidence is generally frowned upon by the Courts. I’d also be interested if that piece of information was also hidden from the outside prosecutors brought onto the Case.
It might take some legal retaliation to get her out of Office. Hennepin County voters have proven to be morons, collectively speaking.
I heard a good portion of her public rant. I mean press conference. She comes off as an insecure and totally unhinged liar..
a nonprofit tout suite
What kind of suite is that… d’oh! Now I get it.
Powerline provides a link to Attorney Chris Madel’s press conference on the dismissal of charges in the Londregan case. If one has failed to believe that Mary Moriarity is little more than a squishy sack of human excrement, they will after watching the video.
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