10/31/8  A Bail Bondsman Takes Justice Away from Victims

It is still amazing to me that Dallas County Democrats elected a Bail Bondsman as our District Attorney.  Same intelligent voters who replaced Margaret Keliher with Commissioner John Price's favorite Democrat, Jim Foster.  (Dallas County Commissioner feud takes bizarre turn with Forrest Gump reference by Kevin Krause, 10/28/8, Dallas City Hall Blog, DallasNews.com).

For almost two years, I have had nothing good to say about that disastrous election.  It is crazy that victims of crime in Dallas County must look to a bail bondsman to put away the criminals who stole their property, hurt them, raped them or even killed them.  They can't expect an ally in Craig Watkins.  No, our bail bondsman DA is more intent on reversing convictions of rapists and murderers than getting justice from victims of crime.

I would like to know how many of those "innocent" men had clean records without the so-called erroneous convictions.

The bail bondsman pushed out most of the best prosecutors in the DA's Office and brought in lawyers of his own ilk as Asst. District Attorneys.  Recently, I was in a jury pool on a district court felony car-break-in case.  Breaking into a car is only a felony if the thief has two previous misdemeanor convictions for the same offense.  Two county juries had previously convicted the defendant of breaking into other people's vehicles.  During voir dire, the Defense Attorney asked if we knew how many convictions in Dallas County had been reversed in the past several months based on DNA evidence.  The Asst. Prosecutor objected, but looked sickly green.  Can you imagine trying to prosecute criminals while having to answer to this District Attorney?

Obviously, I did not get picked for that panel. 

A few days ago, I heard a radio report that the parents of a baby they had beat to death were going to get probation with no jail time.  I almost ran off the road.

Parents get probation after pleading guilty to killing 3-month-old child (Tiara Ellis 10/30/8, Crime Blog, DallasNews.com).  A 3 month old baby had 40 broken ribs and 3 leg fractures, etc., etc., etc.

Her murdering mommy and daddy pled guilty to beating to death their 3-month old baby, but the prosecuting DA said "he was having trouble proving that the parents caused the injuries".  The prosecutor is an incompetent who was appointed by an incompetent DEMOCRAT judge, Lena Levario.  And, why would there need to be an appointed prosecutor?  Well, the bail bondsman's "chief felony prosecutor" is an ex-criminal defense attorney who once represented the dead baby's murdering mommy.  Beginning to see a pattern here?

I hope Tiara Ellis does a feature on this mess because she has two compelling blogs so far.

Crime blog: Prosecutor says evidence lacking; parents get probation in baby's death by Tiara Ellis 10/30/8

If you think all of this has nothing to do with a political vote two years ago, you are in total denial.  These two people should be facing the death penalty for capital murder in the death of a child, their child.  Instead, they get probation because the DEMOCRAT District Attorney pushed out all of the competent prosecutors and replaced them with fellow criminal-loving losers like himself. 

Lena Levario was elected to the bench as a DEMOCRAT.  That election had consequences.  She says "these are the kinds of cases that keep you up at night".  I hope DEMOCRAT Lena Levario never sleeps well again.  What she did in this case is proof positive that she is unfit to serve on the bench or even practice law.  I hope little Tyreona haunts DEMOCRAT Lena Levario's every waking hour. 

If you voted for Craig Watkins or Lena Levario, you are responsible for this miscarriage of justice, too.

Electing a bail bondsman as our District Attorney was a very bad experiment that has had bad consequences.

There are 3-time losers on the streets of Dallas County communities who should be in prison, who are out on probation or by plea bargain.  Do you think they are getting their lives together and intend to go forward and sin no more?  Keep dreaming!

It's not just the fault of the bail bondsman DA or elected officials like Lena Levario.  It's the fault of anyone who voted for them.

Little Tyreona will never have justice because the people who should have been fighting to put her murderers on death row or at least lock them up, instead put the two murderers on probation.

Think about that a second.  Two people who beat their own 3-month old baby so badly that she had 3 leg fractures and 40 broken ribs will be back out on the streets in Dallas County.  If they could do that kind of harm to their own baby, think about the risk to a child you love or an elderly person who crosses their murdering path.

The men who got their convictions reversed with new DNA testing may or may not be innocent of any other crime.  They may have been convicted of a particular crime they did not commit, but we don't know if they had clean records.  Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, not for the murders and mayhem he committed. 

Craig Watkins is riding the publicity for these exonerations, but several of the conviction reviews were started under Bill Hill, his predecessor.  Craig Watkins tries to demonize the late Henry Wade, who prosecuted for convictions.  Henry Wade erred on the side of the victims of crime if he erred at all.  The District Attorney is supposed to prosecute the bad guys and get justice for the victims of crime.

There will be no justice for Baby Tyreona. 

Thanks to Craig Watkins who appointed Kevin Brooks as his chief felony prosecutor. 

Thanks to Kevin Brooks who previously defended criminals like baby murderer, Tameika Hampton. 

Thanks to Lena Levario who appointed an incompetent like Juan Sanchez who could not get a conviction when the two defendants pled guilty. 

Thanks to every one who voted for Craig Watkins and Lena Levario.

If it's change you wanted from law and order prosecutors and judges, look what you've done to Dallas County.  Hope you are proud.

Please use the links to the two blogs by Tiara Ellis, so you can read some of the comments.  People are outraged and shocked that these two baby killers will be back on the streets to do this again.  You know the mother will get pregnant again -- if not by Baby Tyreona's sperm donor, by some other dick head.  Another baby will suffer because Craig Watkins and Lena Levario were elected to offices they are not qualified to hold.  It will happen.

Experiments are great in a controlled lab where the damage can be controlled and confined.

In the real world, we need rules and law and order.  There are bad people who must be controlled and confined so that the rest of us can go about our lives with some sense of safety and security.  In the past, we have had a team between the police and the District Attorney to catch the bad guys, punish them and keep them away from the rest of us.  The DA was the victim's champion.

Now, thanks to a disastrous election, the DA is the criminals' champion.  Instead of teaming up with the police, he is teamed up with the likes of Lena Levario.

Baby Tyreona can't be hurt anymore, but she will never have justice. 

Experiments have consequences.  Elections have consequences.

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