"Prosecutor From Hell: Angela Corey" -Drudgereport

[n david]

Man, oh man. Ian Tuttle of the National Review writes a SCATHING article calling out the SP and detailing her past abuse of power and withholding evidence. If what he writes is true, I'm sure the owners and editors of the National Review have already received a faxed letter from Corey threatening a libel suit and demanding Tuttle be fired.

And this woman is a Republican!? Is this what the Republican Party allows? FL Republicans need to contact their state HQ and demand she be ceremoniously booted from the party. Seriously. Her actions mirror those of the Obama administration, not the Republican party.

Corey, a Jacksonville native, took a degree in marketing from Florida State University before pursuing her J.D. at the University of Florida. She became a Florida prosecutor in 1981 and tried everything from homicides to juvenile cases in the ensuing 26 years. In 2008, Corey was elected state attorney for Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit, taking over from Harry Shornstein — the four-term state attorney who had fired her from his office a year earlier, citing “long-term issues” regarding her supervisory performance.

When Corey came in, she cleaned house. Corey fired half of the office’s investigators, two-fifths of its victim advocates, a quarter of its 35 paralegals, and 48 other support staff — more than one-fifth of the office. Then she sent a letter to Florida’s senators demanding that they oppose Shornstein’s pending nomination as a U.S. attorney. “I told them he should not hold a position of authority in his community again, because of his penchant for using the grand jury for personal vendettas,” she wrote.

Corey knows about personal vendettas. They seem to be her specialty. When Ron Littlepage, a journalist for the Florida Times-Union, wrote a column criticizing her handling of the Christian Fernandez case — in which Corey chose to prosecute a twelve-year-old boy for first-degree murder, who wound up locked in solitary confinement in an adult jail prior to his court date — she “fired off a two-page, single-spaced letter on official state-attorney letterhead hinting at lawsuits for libel.”

Wait, she put a 12-year old boy in SOLITARY confinement with a 1st degree murder charge?!? What happened to cruel and unusual? Regardless if he did the crime, you don't put a 12-year old boy in solitary.

And that was moderate. When Corey was appointed to handle the Zimmerman case, Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte, a former president of both the American Bar Association and Florida State University, criticized the decision: “I cannot imagine a worse choice for a prosecutor to serve in the Sanford case. There is nothing in Angela Corey’s background that suits her for the task, and she cannot command the respect of people who care about justice.” Corey responded by making a public-records request of the university for all e-mails, text messages, and phone messages in which D’Alemberte had mentioned Fernandez. Like Littlepage, D’Alemberte had earlier criticized Corey’s handling of the Fernandez case.

Corey needs to be reigned in. Clearly she abuses what power she has. I'm surprised FL has put up with this conduct.

In June 2012, Alan Dershowitz, a well-known defense attorney who has been a professor at Harvard Law School for nearly half a century, criticized Corey for her affidavit in the Zimmerman case. Making use of a quirk of Florida law that gives prosecutors, for any case except first-degree murder, the option of filing an affidavit with the judge instead of going to a grand jury, Corey filed an affidavit that, according to Dershowitz, “willfully and deliberately omitted” crucial exculpatory evidence: namely, that Trayvon Martin was beating George Zimmerman bloody at the time of the fatal gunshot. So Corey avoided a grand jury, where her case likely would not have held water, and then withheld evidence in her affidavit to the judge. “It was a perjurious affidavit,” Dershowitz tells me, and that comes with serious consequences: “Submitting a false affidavit is grounds for disbarment.”

I remember this. Dershowitz took a lot of heat, IIRC, for his position against her. He was called a bunch of names by the msm for his criticism of Corey.

Shortly after Dershowitz’s criticisms, Harvard Law School’s dean’s office received a phone call. When the dean refused to pick up, Angela Corey spent a half hour demanding of an office-of-communications employee that Dershowitz be fired. According to Dershowitz, Corey threatened to sue Harvard, to try to get him disbarred, and also to sue him for slander and libel. Corey also told the communications employee that she had assigned a state investigator — an employee of the State of Florida, that is — to investigate Dershowitz. “That’s an abuse of office right there,” Dershowitz says.

What happened in the weeks and months that followed was instructive. Dershowitz says that he was flooded with correspondence from people telling him that this is Corey’s well-known M.O. He says numerous sources — lawyers who had sparred with Corey in the courtroom, lawyers who had worked with and for her, and even multiple judges — informed him that Corey has a history of vigorously attacking any and all who criticize her. But it’s worse than that: Correspondents told him that Corey has a history of overcharging and withholding evidence.

Again, why is Rick Scott (Republican Gov - FL) allowing her to bully anyone who criticizes her; and why allow her to remain in office when there's proof she intentionally, willfully, maliciously withheld evidence in the Zimmerman trial?

Corey has to go. Surely there are enough people in FL who find her actions, comments and conduct repulsive enough to put enough pressure on Rick Scott to fire her. He's the only one who can.

But will Corey ever be disciplined for prosecutorial abuses? It’s unlikely. State attorneys cannot be brought before the bar while they remain in office. Complaints can be filed against Corey, but they will be deferred until she is no longer state attorney. The governor can remove her from office, but otherwise her position — and her license — are safe.

Basically, any motions against her by O'Mara will be put off until somehow she's removed from office. It's unconscionable that she cannot be disbarred or brought before the state bar for her conduct. Apparently, state attorneys are above the law and can do whatever they wish in FL.

I wish some organization would put a public records request on her and her office, for any and all records relating to Dershowitz, O'Mara, West, Zimmerman and others. Someone needs to start bullying her.

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[Pressing-On]

Prosecutor from Hell...great title line from Drudge!

[n david]

The FL Governor's website has a handy dandy public records request form online. We'll see what happens with that. I won't hold my breath, since I'm not from FL, nor a member of the media. I expect to get some form letter stating that either I'm not entitled to the request since I'm not a FL resident, or that it's inaccessible due to the case, or they'll send me some papers with black marks covering all the text.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by n david

Basically, any motions against her by O'Mara will be put off until somehow she's removed from office. It's unconscionable that she cannot be disbarred or brought before the state bar for her conduct. Apparently, state attorneys are above the law and can do whatever they wish in FL.

David, If she can't be disbarred, why would Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz recommend it? If he is a law professor, it seems he would know what was capable within the confines of the law, right?

[n david]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

David, If she can't be disbarred, why would Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz recommend it? If he is a law professor, it seems he would know what was capable within the confines of the law, right?

I found that part of the article unbelievable. But who knows, maybe FL has a statute which protects sitting state attorneys from disbarment.

[n david]

Just received an email from the FL Office of Open Government stating my records request is being initiated and someone will contact me regarding any results and costs associated with the request. I'm still skeptical it will pan out. Probably get a bunch of files that are so heavily redacted that only page numbers will be shown.