BatBlog Editorial - Clark Co. Prosecutors Office Hiring Special Prosecutor

 

Yesterday the Clark Co. prosecutor's office announced they would passing the "drug court" case on to a special prosecutor. Prosecutor Steve Stewart citing that the case involved persons involved within Clark Co. court operations as the reason for passing the case on to the special prosecutor.

    Well  this is how I see it. We elect and pay the Clark Co. prosecutor good money to prosecute crimes committed here in Clark Co. If a crime has been committed no matter who it is, it needs to be prosecuted and tried by the Clark Co. office. This Drug Court fiasco already looks like it will cost potentially  hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawsuits for due process rights violations and  wrongful terminations. Now we taxpayers will be burdened with paying out additionally  for a special prosecutor.

The prosecutor's claim of the persons  involved being part of the court system as a reason for hiring the special prosecutor is pure BS , hell every attorney in town knows every other attorney, prosecutor and judge. They hobnob and gather socially and this doesn't disqualify them from trying cases in the County with out prejudice. Hell. I've seen jurors picked for trials that knew the defendant in our courts.


 I may be wrong but this smells as a political cop out in my opinion , in fact I predicted it earlier this would happen. Clark Co. prosecutors don't like prosecuting their own. By own I mean fellow office holders and their employees especially when of the same political party. I have seen it to many times before where an employee of county office holder is arrested and the case either gets dropped or you never hear about it again. What happened to the case against former Sheriff's candidate and member of the Sheriff's dept. whose was being investigated on campaign finance laws violations ??? Anybody heard ???

 I checked through the archives of the News/Tribune found about 5 or 6 (which I posted on the CCC when I was a member) Sheriff''s Dept. employees arrested for varying charges some serious. To my knowledge none was ever sentenced. I guess they were all innocent  <rolling eyes>...

In my opinion Clark Co. prosecutor Steve Stewart needs to man up , prosecute his own crimes (if determined) , the crimes he was elected and paid to prosecute. They happened in Clark Co., Clark Co people are involved we don't need an outsider that will be paid money the County can't afford.
Do the people who elected you a favor and do your job....