This is just incredible…. jaw dropping. Circuit Attorney Kimberly M Gardner is the same prosecutor filing charges against the McCloskeys for defending their home in Saint Louis. Incredibly her office was charging a previously convicted felon with first-degree murder, and the prosecutor assigned to the case took maternity leave leaving no-one to show up in court.
After three missed court hearings by prosecutors, the judge was forced to drop a murder case because no one other than the defense, a public defender, was showing up in court.
This is a jaw-dropping example of a prosecutors office is a state of horrible mismanagement. Compounding the issue Ms. Gardner doesn’t even attempt to justify the collapse of the justice system… she just says whoopsie.
ST. LOUIS — A circuit judge dismissed a 2020 murder case last week and said the Circuit Attorney’s Office “abandoned its duty” after St. Louis prosecutors failed three times to show for court hearings or respond to a court order to produce evidence.
Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser on Wednesday dismissed first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful gun possession charges against Brandon Campbell, 30, after no one from the Circuit Attorney’s Office showed up for scheduled hearings in May, June and July.
“The court does not take this action without significant consideration for the implications it may have for public safety,” Sengheiser wrote in his order. “Although presumed innocent, (Campbell) has been charged with the most serious of crimes. While the court has a role to play in protecting public safety, that role must be balanced with adherence to the law and the protection of the rights of the defendant.”
[…] A spokeswoman for Kimberly M. Gardner provided a statement Monday saying “Upon review of our internal policies and procedures regarding family medical leave, we have determined that corrective measures are needed to further prevent any future repeat occurrence of the incident in question.
[…] [The accused felon] fled to Arizona after the shooting and then to Texas, the documents say. He was arrested in Texas by U.S. Marshals. He has previous federal and state convictions for illegal gun possession, drug possession and stealing. (read more)
Incompetent management and/or sloth — or something worse? Corruption? Sabotage?
How could this happen even once? Lawyers go on maternity leave; that doesn’t mean the office can’t have someone file a motion for continuance. Something is very wrong here.
Guess the ethnicity of the sprung murderer! Guess what the murder victim looked like! The fact is that it is now legal for members of protected classes to kill European-Americans, while defense of one’s home and family from armed rioters is a first-degree felony. This is not going to stop until there is a white heterosexual English-speaking Christian national revolution in this country like the ones that saved Spain from Stalin in 1936 and delivered Chile from Fidel and Che in 1973.
The Soros-ification of our judicial tree bears rotten fruit.
Ya, well, no surprises here…..look what you got!
No one cared enough for the victim to do the right thing, my condolences to the victims family.
The judge should have went all Emmet Sullivan on this case and not allow the case to be dropped and handle the prosecution by himself. You know like Sullivan did to General Flynn.
Why is George Soros still in this country? He lied when he came into the country after WWII about working with Nazis. He is a naturalized citizen working against the US. He should have his citizenship stripped and be deported.
I really fear for this country.
Does Soros spend much time in the US? I read where he spends most of his time in Brazil these days.
His kids are a different story. Son #2 is particularly vile.
The Boys from Brazil. How appropriate.
Gardner appears to be Lori Lightfoot’s long lost sister. Two peas in a rotten stinking pod, festering up American cities.
This is what you get when you hire using race and sex as the determining factors instead of merit.
the “merit” was there alright. She’s a fully infected Dhimmeroid quota queen lefty. She fits Soros’ checklist from top to bottom IMAO.
what a disgrace, but no surprise considering how degraded St. Louis has become over the years since it became a fully infected blue check city
They had video of him murdering the guy! Black on black. Another #BLM victory.
“According to a probable cause statement, video surveillance of the scene showed Campbell arguing with Moore. When Moore walked away from him, Campbell pulled out a gun and fired several shots, hitting Moore several times. Campbell fled in a dark colored Chrysler 300.”
Affirmative Action wins again.
The liberal left can’t manage the simplest things, let alone the country. How pathetic, and they don’t even care!
They are managing it exactly by their book,
Putting monkeys in charge assures a Banana republic.
My wager is that this murderer is politically connected, possibly even a Regular operator for the Democratic Party.
How is she not disbarred?
So if the defendant is white show up and show out, but if they are a murdering thug piece of hot garbage then do nothing. Got it.
Elections have consequences.
Unlike Republicans Democrats get what they vote for.
Mid-Seventeen Century England was in ferment following the temporary establishment of a Commonwealth.
A lot was written and said about the proper role of civil government.
From the Second London Baptist Confession (a somewhat slavish derivation of the Westminster Confession of Faith):
“ God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, has ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, for his own glory and the public good; and to this end has armed them with the power of the sword, for defense and encouragement of them that do good, and for the punishment of evil doers.”
When evildoers go unpunished, God’s glory is diminished and the public good is neglected.
The summary dismissal of murder charges against Brandon Campbell is glaring evidence of the lack of care and concern that elected officials have for the rule of law and the protection of innocent life.
Somebody should be held accountable here.
Usually it’s the person in charge.
Another BLAM (Black Lives Ain’t Matterin’) incident. When it’s B on B crime, the prosecutors don’t bother to show up in certain cities (where Blacks are in charge).
A judge can issue a bench arrant for pretty much anyone … IF they care to.
Pathetic and criminal.
my god…could it be that the southerners were right?
Holder, this dame, every black democrat election official in the country, flash-looting stores, night time mob violence in public places in warmer months, black teachers having ‘pencil parties’ to cheat on annual tests…
Angelou explains that life needs a balance, and many black people feel conning and stealing from whites is that balance. sadly, while this makes a bit of sense from that POV, it is criminal, immoral, untrusting and untrustworthy, and democrats pat them on the head and tell them they’re doing fine.
Ohio abolitionist ancestry (my great grandmother Emma was born in 1870…she told me the family had been abolitionists before the CW), raised democrat (Unitarian and Congregational Church)…like everyone around me, I was just SURE Republicans were racist because everyone said so, like now…
…but now…I’m wondering.
what is the root of this corruption? I do not believe it is the inborn nature or lack of ability to be a normal adult…I believe it is the result of the care and feeding by the democrat Party. everything it touches turns to sewage, and it’s fingerprints are all over black Americans.
but sometimes it seems almost as if the redneck crackers were right about blacks, doesn’t it?
They are. Blacks are shiftless conniving useless shirking trash that have to be watched every moment or they’ll try to pull something over on you.
The judge could have sent court officers to retrieve the prosecutors.
The judge could have sited the prosecutors for contempt.
Most people who don’t show up for court get issued a warrant for arrest.
She’s elected, right? But Democrat voters are so stupid they will probably re-elect her. And as crime surges because of the incompetence of their local prosecutor, they will of course blame everybody except themselves.