In a just system, Bradley would be facing execution for such perversions of justice.

China? They seem to execute some corrupt politicians instead of promote and then retire with full pensions.

Let government officials have a lovely karmic taste of the bitter medicine they want the rest of us to swallow.

Next every prosecutor who is found to have doen any egregious act should be instantly sentenced to serve a term equal to that served by anyone whom the prosecutor has fucked over.

In that context dna is a loose end that might create bad headlines for you years later. Getting rid of it is the prosecutorial equivalent of pre-emptively shredding documents or deleting emails even if they’re probably not incriminating to avoid any possible gremlins when you’re running for higher office.

If you create a system where people need to behave callously and with no regard for justice in order to prosper then you guarantee that the senior positions will be entirely staffed by such people (because anyone who accidentally slips through the interview with an undetected conscience will certainly be weeded out of the junior ranks).

The fact that most people (even, I’d hope, lawyers) are incapable of being amoral further explains why the calbire of DAs often seems so lacking. When you can only employ psychopaths you limit the pool of people to hire from.

As a Texan, I feel that he has been an even worse governor than Bush. Aside from his meddling in the justice system, and the crony capitalism mentioned in post #9 (I can’t imagine he would have supported Gardasil if not for the personal connections with Merck – my guess is he would have argued that it would increase promiscuity), he’s done a number on the state education system. I’m just thankful his crusading school board appointees haven’t managed to force creationism into Texas schools thus far.

@Anga2010 – thanks for the tip. I’ve lived in Austin for about a year (moved from San Antonio) and never spent much time in Williamson, and I’ve never heard the “Keep the weird south” quote, though it certainly seems applicable.

After Geo. W. Bush moved on to the White House, it was actually his successor Gov. Perry along with the State Legislature that began to clean up the total mess that Geo. W. Bush chose to blatantly ignore. Funding was found to provide a minimally adequate defense for indigent defendents.

There still seems to be something really bad in the water in Texas causing amnesia for high level politicians and with the Prosecuting Attorneys (Dallas County excepted).