THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
DESANTIS STRIKES AGAIN .......
Governor Ron “Sanctimonious” DeSantis suspended today elected State Attorney Monique Worrell, of the 9th Circuit (Orlando & Osceola Counties), for Neglect of Duty and Incompetence.
Worrell was elected in 2020 with 67% of the vote and would be facing a reelection campaign next year. She is a Democrat.
Aramis Ayala, also a Democrat, was elected State Attorney in the 9th Circuit in 2016. In March 2017, former Gov. Rick Scott removed her from handling capital cases, which were reassigned to Ocala based State Attorney Brad King. Ayala challenged the decision, but the Florida Supreme Court backed Scott.
In January of 2020, Governor DeSantis pulled Ayala from a high-profile murder case, issuing an executive order that cited her objections to the death penalty. Ayala has been caught up in a dispute with Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson over her decision to not file criminal charges against two suspects in the murder of Nicole Montalvo. Montalvo, a 33-year-old mother, was dismembered and her remains were found on two properties in Osceola County. Alaya did not run for re-election in 2020 and instead ran for Florida Attorney General against AG Ashley Moody, in 2022, losing to Moody.
In August of 2022, DeSantis suspended State Attorney Andrew Warren (a Democrat), of the 13th Judicial Circuit (Tampa), after Warren signed two joint statements, saying he would refuse to prosecute crimes related to abortion and gender transition treatments for children.
Now it’s Worrell's turn to be in the firing line. DeSantis’ Order cited to Worrell’s office policies on failing to enforce the law related to many violent felony cases. DeSantis detailed a series of cases over the past two years where those accused of gun crimes, drug-trafficking and other offenses received reduced sentences or had charges lessened or dismissed in Worrell's circuit. According to DeSantis’ Order:
MINIMUM MANDATORY GUN CASES:
1. the Osceola County Sheriffs Office reports that it referred 58 non-homicide Robbery with a Firearm cases to the Ninth Circuit in 2021 and 2022. As of May 2023, only one of those cases had resulted in the minimum mandatory sentence of ten years. Similarly, during that same two-year period, the Osceola County Sheriffs Office referred 11 non-homicide Carjacking with a Firearm cases to the Ninth Circuit, but only one had resulted in the minimum mandatory sentence of ten years. The Ninth Circuit also received 14 non-homicide cases involving Home Invasion Robbery with a Firearm from the Osceola County Sheriffs Office, yet not one of those arrests resulted in the minimum mandatory sentence. Finally, of the 130 cases involving Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon referred to the Ninth Circuit in 2021 and 2022 by the Osceola County Sheriffs Office, only five had resulted in a minimum mandatory sentence.
DRUG TRAFFICKING MIN MANS:
2. the Osceola County Sheriffs Office reports that it referred 32 drug trafficking cases to Worrell's office in 2021, but as of March 2023, only three have resulted in a minimum mandatory sentence. Of the 64 drug trafficking cases referred in 2022, none have resulted in a minimum mandatory sentence.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS
3. the Ninth Circuit has used a variety of techniques to allow serious juvenile offenders to evade incarceration where it would otherwise be appropriate. Assistant state attorneys are generally prevented or discouraged from "direct filing" cases (whereby juveniles are charged as adults) and are encouraged to effectively drop charges against juvenile defendants, either by not filing the charges in the first place ("non-files") or by voluntarily abandoning the charges after they have been filed ("nolle prosequis");
4. data establishes that during Worrell's tenure as the State Attorney, the Ninth Circuit is last of all 20 circuits in Florida in the percentage of juvenile felony cases, including firearm-related felonies and violent felonies, that are direct filed based on the most serious offense disposed. In addition, the Ninth Circuit has consistently been first among all circuits in the percentage of juvenile felony cases, including firearm-related felonies and violent felonies, dropped as a result of a non-file or a nolle prosequi.
You can read DeSantis' 40 page ORDER here:
Worrell held a press conference today blasting DeSantis. She called DeSantis a “dictator” and said his actions were designed to draw attention away from his struggling presidential campaign.
“This is simply a smokescreen for Ron DeSantis’ failing and disastrous presidential campaign,” Worrell said. “He needed to get back in the media in some positive way that would be red meat for his base.”
She said that recent statistics showed that crime had dropped in Orange County and the city of Orlando under her time in office and that she intends to run for reelection in 2024. She has already filed her campaign papers and she has so far drawn one opponent.
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12 comments:
The trouble with this is that the governor is setting a bad precedent for when the shoe is on the other foot. What happens if Florida's next governor is a Democrat and he starts suspending any prosecutor who he disagrees with on enforcement of the law?
These prosecutors are elected by their local communities and in doing so the electorate has made a decision about how they would like prosecutorial discretion exercised in their communities. DeSantis is breaking a core conservative principle here that local government speaks more genuinely for the people than big government.
Another outrageous act by our fascist governor. Can't wait to see what he has in store for this state when he loses the Republican primary. Who is his next go-to enemy?
De Santis is a hypocrite. He is purportedly against the death penalty and refused to sign death warrants for years. Until he geared up his soon-to-be-failed presidential campaign at which time he started signing death warrants for his base. He also stated that he would not follow the law and extradite Trump to NY if Trump was arrested in FL and extradition would have been necessary.
Hunter Biden should not get a plea
deal unless he answers hard questions by agents and prosecutors. That’s the way it works.
Dear August 09, at 3:59.
F.U. You woke idiot. These local communities don't know squat. The point of elections is to elect Republicans, otherwise they are fake. Prosecutors need to obey my the commands, not the woke cowards who supposedly "elected" them.
People don't have the right to choose how they would like prosecutorial discretion exercised in their communities. Folks who say otherwise are woke losers. Try being woke in a small town, and we'll have you on a rope swinging from the neck quicker than you can say "Little Black Sambo." Strange fruit my ass.
Generalissimo Ronaldinho DeSantis
What is wrong with Floridians? Enough is enough. Mr. Zero charisma has got to go.
You MAGA guys don’t give up, do you?
No, just a tax payer !! Maybe if you didn’t make your earnings off court appointments you would care too. Do they take your taxes out for you?
Any elected official who disagrees with DeSantis or if he just doesn't like them is subject to this being done to them. They get removed and/or suspended because they won't kiss the ring. DeSantis has turned this state into a joke.
Why then are so many rich people moving here ?
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend,
Common Sense,
who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
Intervening private businesses and imposing bullshit propaganda in the schools disguised as history. Looks like our Governor is channeling Fidel.
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