Comments on: Vote for the Worst Prosecutor of 2010

By: The 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year Award | The Agitator

The 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year Award | The Agitator — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:15:02 +0000

[...] paragraphs to an already-long post, I’ll just direct you to my write-ups for his 2008 and 2010 nominations. Read those, then read here, here, here, and here to see how Hood further distinguish [...]

By: RG

RG — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:18:45 +0000

I can’t say I’m surprised that Treadway’s leading.

By: Rob in CT

Rob in CT — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:58:21 +0000

Woah. Prior to seeing this post, the only things I knew about Jim Hood were from the Katrina-related State Farm Insurance litigation (Dickie Scruggs and all that). Shenanigans, I tells ya! So I’m unsurprised to see his name on this list.

But something like that rather pales in comparison to “bending” rules in order to put people to death.

By: More Prosecutors | The Agitator

More Prosecutors | The Agitator — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:53:43 +0000

[...] to Tanya Treadway, who looks to be our runaway winner of the 2010 Worst Prosecutor of the Year award. Treadway joins Forrest Allgood and Mary Beth Buchanan in our hall of [...]

By: Judi

Judi — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:35:21 +0000

I think this was a trick question personally.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:22:48 +0000

Im voting for Andrew Thomas, he filed charges against my autistic brother who had Morpheus on a computer (which I installed for my own use, knowing that if I did he wouldn’t be able to figure out how to uninstall it, thus allowing me to download all the free music I wanted) and through that child pornography was put on his compute, and he was arrested and held on $$100,000.00 bail He has the mentality of a 10 year old and has never demonstrated any sexual deviance of any kind! His sheltered world before this happened consisted of therapy for his autism and playing Scrabble with my mom, he did not ever downnload child pornography. NOBODY CARES THOUGH, NO ONE CAN HELP. MY PARENTS HAVE SPENT EVERY THING THEY HAVE ON LAWYERS, BULLSHIT RISK ASSESSMENTS. WELL OVER $50,000.00 and more then likely he will still get a minimum of 10 years in prison since that’s the minimum mandatory sentence for a single image of anyone under 18

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:02:55 +0000

Andrew Thomas filed charges against my autistic brother who had Morpheus on a computer (which I installed for my own use, knowing that if I did he wouldn’t be able to figure out how to uninstall it, thus allowing me to download all the free music I wanted) and through that child pornography was put on his compute, and he was arrested and held on $$100,000.00 bail He has the mentality of a 10 year old and has never demonstrated any sexual deviance of any kind! His sheltered world before this happened consisted of therapy for his autism and playing Scrabble with my mom, he did not ever downnload child pornography. NOBODY CARES THOUGH, NO ONE CAN HELP. MY PARENTS HAVE SPENT EVERY THING THEY HAVE ON LAWYERS, BULLSHIT RISK ASSESSMENTS. WELL OVER $50,000.00 and more then likely he will still get a minimum of 10 years in prison since that’s the minimum mandatory sentence for a single image of anyone under 18

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:47:35 +0000

I voted for Carr. I know Treadway is quite wicked, and clearly a very popular choice, but she hasn’t even come close to rising to the level of harm Carr has achieved by denying exculpatory evidence to THOUSANDS of defendants.

Still, Andy Thomas and Greg Zoeller come in a close third and second, respectively. Zoeller is my number two because asset forfeiture is seriously evil, and his actions condoned and encouraged more of it. He caused a lot of harm.

Thomas has hurt a lot of people, although not nearly as many as Carr and Zoeller. He is my third choice because he nearly derailed democracy and rule of law in Maricopa county, and because of his ties to the monstrous sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Probably not worth running a similar vote on worst sheriff of the year, since Joe would almost certainly win hands down.

By: Over the River

Over the River — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:14:21 +0000

How about all of the above!

By: raymond Beckmann

raymond Beckmann — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:13:01 +0000

Andy Thomas has not only abused his power and trust by going after his political enemies, he has also cost Maricopa county millions of dollars. His political prosecutions have not only been thrown out, but he is also under investigation. Acting in concert with sheriff Joe “America’s cruelest sheriff” Arpaio, he instituted a reign of terror in the county. I thought prosecutors were to seek the truth. Instead they cover it up in order to obtain convictions, even when they have proof that the accused is innocent. They accuse their enemies to force them to pay expensive fees for private attornys out of their own pocket. Don Stapley, a member of the county board of supervisors for Maricopa county spent 1 million dollars for a private attorney to defend him. He and other public officials, including two {2} Superior court judges have filed notice to sue the county for millions of dollars for wrongful prosecution The federal government needs to indict Andrew Thomas for malicious prosecution of Arizona citizens. Thomas should be disbarred and sent to prison.

By: Judi

Judi — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:59:32 +0000

Maybe the prosecutor’s ‘oath’ should also include, “first do no harm…”

By: NoelArmourson

NoelArmourson — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:44:50 +0000

Vile creatures all.

By: Bill Anderson

Bill Anderson — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:07:43 +0000

Radley, you need to give this award a name. Something like “The Nifong” or The Wade (named after the prosecutor who coined the phrase that it takes a “great prosecutor to convict an innocent man”).

I doubt you could get Mike Nifong to present the award, although he is not a busy person these days, given he is disabarred and sitting around the house feeling sorry for himself.

I voted for Andy Thomas, although any one of these people is deserving. However, I wish you had gone with Christopher Arnt, who led the prosecution of Tonya Craft (who was acquitted). Arnt’s boss, Buzz Franklin, blamed my blog for “depriving the state of a fair trial.” I think that Arnt is a very deserving character, and I will have to do something with him on my own blog!

By: AZ Justiceseeker

AZ Justiceseeker — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:41:36 +0000

Arizona’s Former Maricopa County County Attorney Andrew Thomas bragging about his 200,000 convictions (took office Jan. 2005) during his unsuccessful run in the Republican primary for state Attorney General. Under investigation by the FBI for abuse of power, also recommended along with his henchwomen for disbarment and possible criminal charges.

Investigator to recommend disbarment in Thomas ethics case
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/12/06/20101206andrew-thomas-discipline-arizona-supreme-court.html

Lisa Aubuchon Wanted “Hundreds” of Teens Interviewed During Dale Fushek Case, Probe Transcript Reveals – Phoenix
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/10/lisa_aubuchon_wanted_thousands.php

By: CLS

CLS — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:31:51 +0000

I think the indictment of Andrew Thomas should include his ruthless persecution of a 16 years old boy, Matt Bandy. Bandy was facing life in prison because he surfed a web group with erotic photos of women on it. His family computer was hijacked, though they didn’t know it, and used to store other images for world wide distribution. A forensic examination of the hard drive exonerated Bandy but Thomas tried to prevent that from happening and repeatedly refused to give a copy of the hard drive over to experts working for the defense. After his case fell apart he dropped most charges and instead demanded, and got, a plea bargain that Bandy plead guilty to the horrific crime of showing a Playboy magazine to a school mate. For that awful crime Thomas demanded the boy be listed as a registered sex offender for life. The Bandy family spent around $500,000 to defend their son. I hate to think how much tax money Thomas squandered on the case. And then, after he lost everything in the courtroom, his odious assistant, Rachel Alexender, wrote a smear piece attacking the boy and published it on the Fox News website. She twisted the facts about the case and made it seem like the kid was a convicted child pornographer — as opposed to a “child” who merely looked at pornography.

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:40:21 +0000

Got to be Treadway. Everyone else is a good example of the criminal and sociopathic, but Treadway is a threat to constitutional government.

By: gs

gs — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:07:36 +0000

Go Tanya go!!

In both senses of the phrase.

By: John David Galt

John David Galt — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:57:46 +0000

Why is Scott Andringa missing from the list?

By: Charles Novins

Charles Novins — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:55:28 +0000

As an attorney, I’m reluctant to “vote;” it might be improper for me to TREAD on another attorney in any WAY via my comments. But I see the “win at all costs” mentality here “on the ground” with alarming frequency, by which I mean something over 90% of the time. It may interest readers to know that even taking such a position is absolutely illegal under laws in every jurisdiction. NJ law states unequivocally, for example, that the prosecutor’s duty is to “find the truth” and NOT to seek to “win the case.” Of course, breach of the law by state actors is so common as to be barely worth a mention. Still, I think abuses might be lessened if folks knew the law.

By: Lazarus

Lazarus — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:50:25 +0000

What about the guy from the Tonya Craft child abuse railroading, what with the gag orders, media smears, and the little kid who said “I just remembered”?