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I suspect enipla has concern that this guy’s defense attorney will be able to use his relationship with his former office to influence the prosecution to “take a dive”, as it were.
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Many, many, many federal and state prosecutors move on to become criminal defense attorneys, often working in the same counties/districts they served as prosecutors in. Hell, the few people who graduate law school with a “five-year plan,” are the kids who go to the DA’s office to learn how to try a case and then go into private practice to get rich. This is quite common.
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Yep. In a small county like ours I suspect that that former DA knows a lot of people here.
That’s OK. It can’t be helped.
That’s the way it is in small communities.
But, the former DA that used to defend lawsuits against the county is now working privately to defend a county employee.
That’s OK too. But we all smell something.
While working as a DA she had a working and social relationship with the defendants Wife.
Acceptable, but maybe a little weird. It is the good ‘ol boy network after all.
That’s when the CBI came in asking questions. They smell something too.
What bothers me most is that this shit seems to happen again and again. I don’t think that the county commissioners are involved directly, but they turn a blind eye to those that are.
It seems to me that the Fire Chief screwed up again and again and is out of control. And his bosses (county commissioners) did nothing, or could do nothing to stop it.
Now, the Fire Chief has the ex county DA as his defense attorney.
This shit has been in the monthly paper so much that I suspect that the CBI will step in and get to the bottom of it.
I hope so.
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My guess is you either have the fire chief’s lawyer’s former job description or title wrong. DA’s are generally criminal prosecutors. They wouldn’t defend the county; they would represent the people of the county in criminal actions. County attorneys, on the other hand, represent the county in a myriad of civil litigation and transactional matters. I could be wrong, but if she “defended the county” as a county attorney, then she’s probably got no more “connections” at the DA’s office than many other members of the local bar — That would raise the question, “why is she doing criminal defense now?” Sounds like a small place, lots of general (mal)practitioners? I don’t know, but it’s still not fishy. The fact that his defense attorney knew his wife prior to this is not alarming on its face either. My guess is the lion’s share of defense work comes from referals made by colleagues of the attorney and friends/family of the accused. There’s just simply nothing wrong with it. Noe of this excuses the misapprpriation, but it sounds like that is being handled.