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I posted this a couple of days ago, but I am posting it again because it should how corrupt the police are and how corrupt the government prosecutors are.
In this cause the police are the Arizona Department of Public Service [now ain't that an oxymoron], which is the Arizona state police and the prosecutor is that marijuana hating *sshole Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery. My self, the Arizona Department of Public Safety tried to frame me years ago for selling LSD. I discovered it by accident 10 years after the crime, when I was fired from my job at the request of the assistant Arizona Attorney General Steve Twist. That was back when Bob Corbin was the Arizona Attorney General. But that's a long story so I won't get into it here.
Roberts: Montgomery, Milstead owe us answers on botched freeway shooter case Laurie Roberts, The Republic | azcentral.com 5:30 p.m. MST September 14, 2016 Get ready to open your wallet, Arizona. The guy who spent seven months in jail awaiting trial for a series of freeway shootings is suing the state and Maricopa County. Generally speaking, it’s not a good idea to keep a guy locked up for seven months when you don’t have the goods on him. You recall the high-profile nabbing of Leslie Merritt Jr., then a 21-year-old landscaper. How, just minutes after his arrest last September, Gov. Doug Ducey triumphantly tweeted: “We got him!” Doug Ducey ✔ @dougduceyWe got him all right. Now he’s got us. From the start, Merritt claimed that the Department of Public Safety got the wrong guy, that his gun was locked away in a pawn shop while someone was shooting up I-10. But DPS Director Frank Milstead announced that lab results tied Merritt's gun to four of the 11 shootings. Here's what's going to happen Seven months later, we learned that none of the bullets could be linked to Merritt’s gun. This, according to the prosecution’s own ballistics expert, a nationally recognized expert hired to check DPS’s work. In April, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville freed Merritt from jail based upon those ballistics findings, and within days, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery moved to dismiss the charges, though they could be refiled if they find evidence. Me? I’m not holding my breath on that one. More likely, we’re going to pay out the nose to Merritt. More likely, Milstead and Montgomery will never explain how a guy winds up in jail for seven months when there’s no evidence to prove he did it. And we'll be left without answers They'll never explain why they ignored cellphone records that showed Merritt was at home at the time of one of the shootings. Or why they blamed him for another shooting committed while his gun was in a pawn shop. They will never explain whether, in their zeal to solve a high-profile crime, they made a rush to judgment. This thing has the smell of a total botch job, one for which Milstead and Montgomery owe us answers. As for us, we’re going to owe Leslie Merritt. |