Maricopa County Attorney's Office And Mesa Arizona Police City Of Mesa / county Attorney ripped of the taxpayers repeatedly Mesa Arizona

East Valley residents, for decades, have noted that the
Maricopa County Attorney's office and the stalwart crooks
at the Mesa, Arizona Police Department have manufactured
thousands of bogus "cases", out of public view, in the
soft embrace of political correctness, to "make their
bones", rather than pursue the sea of drug use, murder,
and violent crime in which Mesa and most of the East Valley is immersed. It's easier to get crack cocaine and methampetamine in downtown Mesa, for example, than it is to find a decent lunch, and with some 1200 police employess, if one isn't in the "right" neighborhood with the correct nepotistic and otherwise depraved connections, one can count on NO police services unless it's convenient.

Yet, their helicopters (their idiotic "Air Arm")
will keep you awake at 4 a.m. while they spy on a young
couple groping each other on a quiet side street...I guess they like that kind of photo.

Here's a little accredited information on the sleazy
and demented means by which "porn" is treated...note that
none of the police here got anything more than a wrist slap from the esteemed (and LDS) city manager, but the kid...well, never let it be said the Maricopa County Attorney's office knows anything about fairness or honesty. Look at the Brown and Markley case to find out just how rotten they are, and have been for decades. It's all covered in other reports here. This is cut and paste stuff, not for paid redistribution. Note the sources:

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(quick note: Mesa Police were found to have thousands of
sexually explicit and racist and otherwise at least moderately disgusting e-mails sent and/or received on paid city time, and some officers received mild punishment. But these spoiled brats are not content with that! Note that no one in Mesa City Government has ever even suggested reforming this department, and doing away with their more every day crimes, like perjury, obstruction of justice, concealment or destruction of exculpatory evidence, and little annoying
details like the murder of Mario Madrigal. But dirty
pictures? Why, THAT'S SERIOUS!!! )

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Mesa Officers Want Suspensions Rescinded

MESA, Ariz. -- More than 60 city police officers disciplined in an e-mail scandal last year are taking Mesa to court.
The 62 officers and two police civilian employees claim City Manager Chris Brady overstepped his bounds in doling out their punishment and they are challenging Brady's implementation of a disciplinary process created after the offenses occurred.

They are asking for the city to rescind their suspensions and give them back pay and attorneys' fees.

In paperwork filed Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court, the employees and officers question Brady's authority to punish them instead of allowing the police department to handle the discipline.

Brady declined to talk about the matter due to the ongoing litigation.

City spokesman Steve Wright forwarded all inquiries to City Attorney Debbie Spinner, who said: "We feel the actions of the city were appropriate in this case."
The citywide investigation into a year's worth of e-mails was prompted by a sexual harassment claim. Officials found several e-mails contained inappropriate content, from insensitive jokes to sexually explicit information.

The review resulted in the discipline of 521 city workers, including 266 at the police department. Punishments included written reprimands and suspensions ranging from 16 hours to 240 hours.

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Now, here's what happens when prosecutors get ahold
of something a little bit similar, from an area (non-LDS)
citizen. Oh. And note the. "Because we can!" remark.
It's the same one this corrupt monsters used in the
infamous Brown and Markley cases, and hundreds of other
fake and fraudulent cases. Too bad crimes like obstruction
of justice aren't taken seriously in this silly-a____ed
venue, or these drips would be themselves incarcerated!

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FOXNews.com - Overzealous Porn Prosecution Tramples Accused's Rights -
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
By Wendy McElroy

Matt Bandy is the Arizona teenager who, until
recently, faced 90 years in prison
for having nine images of child porn
on his computer. Matt is also a reminder of
why the Bill of Rights championed
due process--the procedural rights of a
defendant in the legal arena.
Due process was not championed as a
protection against false accusations by a
victim but as a shield against abusive
prosecution by the State. The Founding
Fathers knew that people sometimes lie
but their focus was to limit the power by
government.

Power corrupts.

The ability to arrest and imprison another human being is an
immense power that is held in bounds by principles
based on common sense and
common decency. The principles allow an
accused to defend himself: for example,
the right to confront witnesses.
Why should Matt Bandy's case serve
as a reminder of these protections?
For two years, he endured a legal prosecution
that cost his family over
$250,000; they are now broke, and their
nightmare is ending only because the
case caught the attention of the media.

ABC News program 20/20 covered the
story, likely spurring other reporters
to take interest.
(Story continues below)

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As C/Net reported, "After being contacted
by reporters, the Maricopa County
Attorney's Office offered the boy a plea bargain."
The charges were dropped from nine felony
counts that carried a life sentence
down to three "class 6 undesignated felonies"
with no jail time. Class 6
felonies are "non-dangerous, non-repetitive
offenses under the criminal code."
The ?crime' to which Matt ultimately
pleaded guilty was showing a Playboy
magazine to some 16-year-old classmates.
His conviction may be the first of its
kind in America. Being in possession of a
Playboy is legal, but a teenaged boy
who shows it to a buddy now risks being
arrested as a sex offender.
Nevertheless, the plea bargain allowed
County Attorney Andrew Thomas to tell ABC
News that "this defendant did plead guilty
in a court of law."
The extraordinary reduction in Matt's
charges hinged on a forensic analysis of
his computer. Exculpatory forensics revealed
that the nine images were probably
downloaded without his knowledge onto his
hard drive by a virus. Viruses with
this capability are alarmingly common
and can invisibly infect an operating
system when someone clicks on an email
attachment or the ?wrong' (not
necessarily adult) website.
Last year, during the height of the Mocbot
worm, an estimated 265,000 computers
were infected daily.
Matt's attorney vigorously sought to have
forensic analysis performed on the
computer, which was in possession of the police.
With equal vigor, the District
Attorney's office (called the County
Attorney's office in Arizona) blocked
access even though the defense had a
legal right to examine evidence.
Court records reveal repeated requests
for such disclosure.
Forensic analysis of computer files is
akin to ballistic testing of a gun or DNA
analysis of semen from a rape sample. If
a defendant is guilty, then the
forensics will bolster or prove the charges.
If the defendant is innocent, then
the results are essential to establishing a defense.
In a telephone interview, Matt's father explained,
"I don't argue that they [the
police] didn't have a right to come
with a search warrant but I can't understand
not giving someone a right to defend themselves."
As it was, the defense conducted forensic tests
only after a court ruling gave
them access. Even then the County
Attorney's office appealed the lower ruling to
the Arizona Supreme Court, which
refused to hear the case. The lower court's
ruling stood.

(Citing the Bandy case, the CyberCrime Law site advises, "The Department of Justice has released a 137-page "Investigations Involving the Internet and
Computer Networks" manual aimed at local
(and unsophisticated in fighting
cybercrime) law enforcement units?This manual
comes after several local law
enforcement agencies bungled some high-tech
investigations. "

The prosecution's refusal to conduct
forensic analysis is only one indication of
overzealous prosecution. Consider two other indications.
First, the execution of the original search
warrant, at 6 a.m., on Dec. 16,
2004. Matt's mother Jeanne Bandy described
the scene at the Bandy home on a web
site dedicated to the case.
"There were about ten police. They
made me and my kids go outside where we
huddled together, frightened?My husband, Greg?was
asleep upstairs with earplugs
in. They pulled Greg (an emergency room
physician) out of bed at gunpoint," the
web site quotes Mrs. Bandy.
Second, upon being charged, Matt was
required to wear an electronic bracelet on
his ankle to track him 24 hours a day.
Third, despite disagreement from the probation
department, "sex offender terms"
were attached to Matt's ?Class 6' probation. The "terms" severely restricted how close he could come to a minor.
In a recent phone interview, Matt stated that
one of the first questions his
probation officer asked was whether a minor
was living in the Bandy household.
Because Matt's sister Katie is 15 years old,
there was a possibility Matt could
not live at home.
When Matt asked about a planned family
trip to Disneyland, the officer forbade
him to go. Matt was ordered to "not even
think about anything Disney," he said.
Upon hearing this, Katie boxed up her
Disney movies for fear that having them
out would hurt her brother; an open search warrant
allows authorities to search
the house at will.
When Matt requested permission to attend church,
he was told that the priest had
to provide prior, written approval that
reflected his understanding Matt was a
sex offender. Matt was also required to sit
in a separate pew away from
children. He has not attended church since.
The "sex offender terms" were finally lifted
by court order. When Prosecutor
Daniel Strange reiterated the child
pornography charges, the judge admonished,
"I'll just note for the record, as you were
negotiating the plea agreement here,
the reason why this agreement took place
is because you couldn't prove the
things you just alleged now."

Why was the boy pursued so zealously?
Jeanne calls it "a witch hunt" fueled by
two factors: Thomas campaigned for office
on a promise of being tough on sex
offenders; and, he needs a high
conviction rate in that area.
The real answer, however, may be the
one Matt's attorney reportedly received
when he asked the County Attorney's office,
"Why are you doing this?"
According to Jeanne, he answered, "Because we can."
Wendy McElroy is the editor of
ifeminists.com and a research fellow for The
Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif. She is
the author and editor of many
books and articles, including the new book,
"Liberty for Women: Freedom and
Feminism in the 21st Century" (Ivan R. Dee/Independent Institute, 2002). She lives with her husband in Canada.

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If you're a Maricopa County citizen, you're paying
taxes to support these criminals. And YES, that's MESA
PD and the MARICOPA COUNTY ATTORNEY'S office. Time
to clean up! Ever hear the word "reform", Arizona?

How about "PURGE"?

Jim
Mesa, Arizona
U.S.A.

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