Jack Campbell is the State Attorney y'all for the 2nd Judicial Circuit in Dixie Florida.
MacKenzie Hayes was a prosecutor in the 2nd Circuit and found herself assigned to Jefferson County.
This was the policy memo she saw for that office, and we assure you we are not-in 2023- making this up:
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Yup, it was the policy of the good ol' boys all white prosecutor's office in Jefferson County to seek and adjudication in NVDL cases if, inter alia, the defendant was ....drum roll please HISPANIC.
Ms. Hayes is awarded the Rumpole Profiles in Courage Award for exposing this policy in that office.
To be fair, Ol' Jack Campbell responded that those knuckle heads in Jefferson County wrote his policy down wrong. They meant to say that it was "ILLEGALS" that should get the enhanced penalties, not HISPANICS.
"Yes Judge, the state is seeking an Adjudication on Francois Mitterrand and Gunther Schmift because they are in the country illegally. Same goes for Yahsito Ono"
Reaction to the racist policy of the 2nd Circuit SAO was mixed. Former President You Know Who said "Campbell sounds like Attorney General material to me"; Governor DeSantis said "Cambell hates Disney and that's good enough for me."; and the Florida Supreme Court citing what it called the "still valid law of Plessy v. Ferguson" said they had not problem with the State Attorney's policy.
Wow. In 2023 racism exposed.
Rump, I thought this was an April Fools joke. Horrible.
ReplyDeleteAnd if this is in writing, can you imagine what's their "off the record" policy.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness, the ASA had written that as a note to self. It was not a memo from the top. And, apparently they did have that policy for people illegally here who should not be driving. Using Hispanic for illegal is pretty inexcusable though.
ReplyDeleteWe need immigration reform so people can drive legally. But you cannot discount the harm done by an illegal immigrant who gets into an accident with no insurance. If doing that leads to an accident and subsequent deportation because of an NVDL conviction, it is hard not to point out that they should not have been driving in the first place.
Don’t get me wrong, they should be able to drive legally, but so long as they cannot because of our fucked up immigration laws and republican leaders, this seems like a reasonable (but not ideal) way of addressing the problem.
If the asa had a note to himself to remind him of the office police it’s the same thing.
ReplyDeleteYou are not totally wrong. The difference was that the policy was for illegal aliens to receive adjudications. The ASA wrote it as Hispanic because most illegal aliens they deal with are Hispanic. quite bad and racist, but not the official policy either.
ReplyDeleteIt just baffles me that all those Miami Cubans vote Republican when the Republican base so clearly hates them. They'd march themselves into Hitler's gas chambers while saying, "that Hitler is anti-communist, and we hate communism."
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DeleteI'm an immigration attorney in FL and let me tell you, it's a PIA for foreigners to get a driver's license in Florida. Both for individuals that have legal status (less of a pain) and those who do not (very limited circumstances). It's pretty insidious (although par for the course) to make getting a DL burdensomely difficult, if not impossible, and also enhance punishment for driving without one.
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ReplyDeleteGreat herald article on Veronica Diaz sentencing some guy with obvious mental health issues to 150 years in the state penitentiary after trial. Only 130 years more than the state asked for at sentencing. Good job Veronica.
And Republicans will applaud that asshole.
ReplyDeletefunny how "defense attorneys" immediately abandon all principal when progressive politics come into play.
ReplyDeleteif you were tasked with representing someone and the evidence against them was a note someone else wrote purporting to record their crime, and there was no other evidence, you would pontificate from the mountaintop about how untrustworthy this was, how little it "proved" anything.
But if it purports to inculpate someone of an ethnicity / social class you despise, then its 100% PROOF OF GUILT and you can blog away disparaging them. If someone in a political environment hastily types a note which would damage a "Dixie" person (read: white, southern, christian, not from the Northeast, not an Atlantic reader, not an NPR donator, etc)? Well, it's a smoking gun!
I saw this during the Zimmerman trial. What a bullshit case that was, yet every lib defense attorney, who would otherwise tell you they BLEED for the Constitution and defendants' rights, jumped up and down about the Great Racist Murdering Zimmerman.
It gives the lie to all your principles.
I have to disagree. I don’t like what Zimmerman did. I was very impressed by the defense and happy for the lawyers for the verdict and have no problem with it. There are a few members of the defense bar who are hypocrites but I think for the most part the lawyers who defend terrorists in Guantanamo and take murder and child porn and awful facts court appointments are acting in the best interest of our profession.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think I’d draw the line at a school shooter. We all have our limits and that would probably be mine. But I have no problem with the Zimmerman defense and verdict. None
i stand corrected re zimmerman. and i salute anyone (presumably you) who defends the bad guys you mention.
ReplyDeletebut we all have our own particular bad guys, right? and you havent been shy about who yours are
I think we are all humans. I doubt I could defend someone charged with animal abuse. And yet I have defended my share of murderers.
ReplyDeleteZimmerman is a child killer and a piece of shit. In any decent state, he would be in prison for life. These kkk fuckers were pretty quick to change laws when Cruz survived a penalty phase but they don’t blink an eye when some wacko attacks and kills a teenager minding his own business and then legally blames the killing on the kid.
ReplyDeleteWe have Zimmerman, we have Kyle Rittenhouse, I’m sure there are others. Is anyone aware of a Black person who was acquitted under these type of circumstances anywhere in the US? Am I wrong to ask this question?
ReplyDeleteSYG legislation was by far the second worst legislation in the state. Law enforcement and prosecutors across the state advocated and argued against it. Over the years that I've been a prosecutor those case are the most difficult I've had in explaining the law to the deceased families. I don't like it, but I have to follow it. Don't confuse the Cruz case with Zimmerman, politics is politics, the law is the law. Thanks SAO5
ReplyDeleteMacKenzie Hayes was foolish to publish this. She could, as I did in the 70s, take her own path with respect to pleas or other issues, and defend her decisions to her bosses, if asked. I did with respect to seating black jurors in a case with a black defendant, against advice not to do so (long pre-Batson et al.). Never heard a single word of criticism.
ReplyDeleteShe accomplished nothing, except to get personal publicity. I wonder how her jobhunting is going? Ah: Here's the answer, courtesy of TFB's website:
Philadelphia District Attorney's Office
3 S Penn Sq
Philadelphia, PA 19107-3407
Office: 215-686-5738
mackenzie.hayes@phila.gov