We’d like to thank the Yellow Sheet for doing the legwork following up on our prior post about Democrat Attorney General Goddard fumbling the prosecution of a gun dealer who provided weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Here are parts of the Yellow Sheet article explaining how Goddard (who is soft on illegal immigration and has a history of carrying water for Napolitano on the issue) screwed up the case (we cannot reproduce the entire article without violating copyright, and the Yellow Sheet is a subscription-only website)

Maricopa Superior Court Judge Robert Gottsfield found that although several “straw” purchasers lied on ATF gun-buying forms, the offense did not amount to a “material misrepresentation” needed to prosecute under state fraudulent schemes law.

The buyers in question did lie, but they were still legal purchasers and the state provided “no proof whatsoever that any prohibited possessor ended up with the firearms,” wrote Gottsfield.

Ain’t over ‘til it’s over: Goddard spokeswoman Anne Hilby did not return calls for comment, but Goddard did tell the New York Times the ruling confused him, and his office is “still trying to make sense of it.”

“We believe it was an error, and we are going to do everything we can in the system to correct that error,” Goddard, said in an interview Thursday. “It’s not over by any means.”

Mel McDonald, a defense attorney who spent seven years as a Maricopa County Superior Court judge, said he could not comment specifically to the case, but, granted Rule 20 motions that lead to dismissals (as in the case of Iknadosian) usually mean a case is dead and cannot be prosecuted again if a jury was already empanelled.