I just heard today that Patrick Flaherty (newly elected Deschutes County District Attorney) is going to make all Deputy DAs apply to keep their jobs. Another copy here.
Flaherty told them that if they “wish to be considered for appointment,” they should send him a letter indicating they want to stay in the office, along with a resume within the next week.
“I think the deputy district attorneys understand the process quite well,” Flaherty said. “I think they understand the law.”
It’s about time.
After the abusive reign of Mike Dugan, Flaherty’s “Justice Not Politics” is taking charge.
It is my ever so humble opinion that Dugan’s old Deputy DAs must be mentally corrupted by Dugan’s brand of prosecution. Some, many, or all, but certainly not none.
The job of the district attorney is not to push as hard as they can on each member of the community they prosecute, stretching far beyond the bounds or intent of the laws they prosecute with. Dugan and his insane deputies are ruined by his ideals to win at all costs against his enemies (the general public).
Dugan’s friends? Let’s see..A judge’s wife can sell marijuana by the ounce? Check. Friends can drive drunk? Check. Run your mouth about pending case details to “friends” you don’t even know, people who think you’re a jerk, people who happen to golf at your club? Check. Let sexual discrimination slide in the office? Check. (After all, whose money pays out the claims? Not Mike’s or that of his DDAs. Your tax dollars pay for the claims. Your tax payments for the year, and those of about 50 other average property owners in Deschutes County goes to settle one single discrimination suit against Dugan’s office.)
Everyone else? (Mr. and Mrs. White Trash) If you aren’t part of the club, and they have any evidence, no matter how flimsy, you might end up with Dugan’s office pressing Measure 11 charges against you. Was a cigarette lighter involved? Let’s charge them with Felony Arson I. It’s a Measure 11 crime! Let’s use every tool, no matter how unethical it may be to win prosecution points! Maybe then join up with Dallas Brown because we need to expand the jail after all this bullshit. Only the most radical, most outlandish interpretation of the events will be used for prosecution in this county!
(“Measure 11? You have to consider a plea offer. No matter how ridiculous the charges, the jury could find you guilty!” If you get outrageous charges filed against you, and most of what you hear sounds like this, you may need to remind your lawyer that, should he or she utterly fail to fight the fascists during round 1, there’s always the appeals court.)
How else are you going to get voted in next term? By being tough on crime, of course. That is, until you screw so many people that they vote your ass out on the curb. I’ve no idea how many Deputy DAs were or currently are infected by the culture of the office. But, in essence, you could say that Patrick’s move is an extension of the will of the voters. The people of Deschutes County are tired of being abused by their own government that is supposed to serve and protect them.
Will any former Deschutes County DDAs join Dave, the former DA that bikes around Bend with a sword strapped to his back? (You’ve seen him in front of 7/11 stores around Bend. The guy you thought looked like a cool, if not slightly off balance character with a sword, he was a DA. Maybe you’ve talked with him?)
Patrick Flaherty has worked in the DA’s office. Later, he was fighting against these fascists on the criminal defense side. Now he’s back in, cleaning up. It’s starting to look like a Chuck Norris movie.
Maybe before the disgusting, raunchy, fascist trash is taken out, someone should go into Deschutes County IT and make copies of their e-mail boxes. It is, after all, 100% public record and they are required to present it on demand. At least that’s what Joe Sadony, head of Deschutes County IT told me years past.
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