Comments on: “Prop. 100 snubbed by judicial system”

By: Mari

Mari — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:20:40 +0000

Carlos, as a friend to those prosecutors at the AG’s office, I’d like to thank you for your kind words. They are indeed doing a good job under difficult circumstances for far less pay than they would get anywhere else, including other public sector jobs. [For those of you that don't know, Asst AG's, including those who take on the kind of cases that Carlos talks about where threats to their lives are real, are paid less than city prosecutors who handle dog barking cases.]

As for the enforcement problem on Prop 100, I don’t know why they didn’t withhold bond on the guy who was caught with paperwork showing he was here illegally. But as for the people who have just admitted to being an illegal, there is a problem with prosecuting them based on a legal principal called corpus delecti. Basically, it means that a person cannot be conviced based solely on a statement of the defendant. It gets more complicated than that (we are dealing with lawyers after all) but I think that’s generally what’s going on now.

kralmajales, I for one am fine with raising taxes to fund the jail system. And as any voter in Maricopa County can tell you, there is never any problem doing so when the county puts a tax hike on the ballot to pay for jails. I find it interesting however that you say that if WE fund it “some” of YOU will enforce it. Clearly, your problem with Prop 100 has nothing to do with money so don’t bother with the red herring arguments.

By: kralmajales

kralmajales — Thu, 31 May 2007 00:55:59 +0000

So are you all prepared to raise the taxes necessary to pay for the new jails that it will take to house everyone under this proposal that fails to get bail?

Come on…think about the consequences…folks. Nobody’s letting out felons who are a flight risk…if so…its very very rare.

You fund it and some of us will enforce Prop 100.

You wont though…because it would require more tax funds.

By: Carlos Merchant

Carlos Merchant — Thu, 31 May 2007 00:13:01 +0000

Ted: i work every day for a unnamed national government entity ( trying to protect myself here ) that trakcs down serious criminal offenders that are also illegal aliens. I think you should add ATF and ICE into the group that is TRYING and TRYING to enforce the laws of this nation but constantly being let down by the U.S Congress and the State of Arizona and the courts.

I don’t want to go praising Goddard as he is a politician and automatically not to be trusted- but the AGs office has been nothing short of WONDERFUL in their role in assisting us. I can’t name their names because there are many mexican drug lords that would love to get their hands on these prosecutors but let me be the first to say that these guys are TOP NOTCH, grade A material.

It’s the courts and the legislature and the congress that is tying our hands. IE: The Western Union case. My unit has captured thousands- read THOUSANDS of illegal aliens with millions of dollars of drugs, hostages and weapons but the courts are trying to shut their program down. So, please, be nice to those guys at the AG’s office- they try so hard and are constantly fighting with one hand behind their back.

By: Villanova

Villanova — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:50:19 +0000

Shameful actions undergirded by the AZ Supreme Court and Presiding Maricopa County Judge, Barbara Rodriguez Mundell.