Development in the Maricopa County courtroom case

Shows how much they value justice and the oaths they took.

FIRE THEM ALL.

Sheriff Joe and his deputies are hastening the day when a bounty is placed on the head of all law enforcement personnel. Unfortunately, many good officers will be wrongly affected also. The governor must really be a limp noodle that he hasn’t sent the National Guard to dispossess the sheriff and his deputies from their posts.

The Attorney General of Arizona isn’t made of any sterner stuff, either.

The entire bunch should be the next and newest , and no doubt, whiniest inmates in their own jail.

This has now gone beyond a simple contempt case. Time to call the FBI and clean house. I know the DOJ would love to take Sheriff Joe down.

Sorry to say, it seems that Sheriff Joe forgot who he works for, and what his job is: It's not to protect a lying thief wearing a badge, and if he has 20 buddies that think their job is worth him, too bad.

If the deputy committed a crime, put him on trial.

Jailing him until he "apologizes"? WTF is that? Why not demand he also wring his hands and nash his teeth while wearing a hair shirt?

How many of you defense attorneys believe your clients should be jailed indefinitely pending their "apology" for crimes they've been convicted of, let alone crimes they haven't even been charged with or convicted of?

No problem with your stance O'Rourke, but the judge tried to give this idiot a break and he wouldn't take it. Were I the judge, I would keep him there forever. Simply because he is too stupid to run free. And also too crooked to be a deputy sheriff.

Were I the judge, apology now wouldn't get it. I would direct the prosecutor to file charges and give him his trial. If he refused I would jail him too. Then I would call in the Feds. If they wouldn't do anything, it would be time to take the law back into our hands where it belongs.

Ditto to Straightarrow, and to O'Rourke, the deputy did in fact commit both a crime and a pretty serious violation of courtroom protocol. I don't much like contempt of court to begin with, but given we're stuck with it, the judge would have been within his rights to throw the deputy in on contempt of court to begin with. Its a pretty reasonable guess that the judge was trying to do the deputy a solid and spare him criminal charges, but got backed into a corner when the dude refused to play along.

Police Motto:

"To protect and serve.

Ourselves and each other, that is."

Amazing respect for the law these LEOs have. FIRE EVERYONE WHO CALLED IN SICK!

Not only should they all be fired, but an investigation needs to be opened to find out if violation of the attorney/client communication privilege is SOP for these jerk-offs. Their solidarity strike appears to support that thesis. If this is true, then the Public Defender's office of Maricopa County better get busy with their habeas writs because a lot of defendants were denied effective assistance of counsel when the government invaded the attorney/client privilege and stole their attorney's work product to gain an advantage in a criminal prosecution.

I case you can't tell, this really pisses me off.