Todd Stallion

I don't like Terry Goddard but I think the cases listed here should have all been prosecuted. Comment has been reviewed

July 8, 2007

Mike in Mesa

How much of the badly needed resources did the state squander taking these villians to task? At least we can all rest comfortably knowing people will think twice before ordering unauthorized moon roofs, using public information for self interest, or failing to disclose legitimate earnings from your efforts promoting charachter building in schools. Go get em Mr. Goddard! Suggest removal of this comment

July 8, 2007

charlie from phoenix

Next time someone's identification gets ripped off by a crook and the AG claims he doesn't have the resources to investigate remenmber this article. What a waste of money. Suggest removal of this comment

July 8, 2007

X

Mr. Griffith above raises a very interesting point: "If I was either of these men, Terry Goddard would be standing in front of the State Bar on ethics charges." Should the exonerated public officials now bring ethics charges against Mr. Goddard down at the Arizona State Bar? Certainly, the Duke Rape prosecutor has gotten himself in a lot of hot water by exceeding all reasonable bounds of his former prosecutorial authority. There is an even more interesting question under the Arizona rules that govern attorney conduct: the duty of an attorney to report another attorney for misconduct. Many judges are also members of the Arizona State Bar, so there might even be an affirmative duty for a judge to turn in an attorney for misconduct. In other words, the exonerated public officials are not the only only ones who could report Mr. Goddard for possible ethical misconduct. In fact, judges and attorneys affiliated with these cases, under appropriate circumstances, may possibly have a mandatory, affirmative duty to file an ethics report involving Mr. Goddard.

The Arizona State Bar issued an official Ethics Opinion in a case involving certain lawyers having knowledge of improper conduct by another lawyer, and stated:

"The other four attorneys therefore have a duty under ER 8.3(a) to report attorney B, which can be fulfilled by a complete and accurate report by any one of them."

http://www.myazbar.org/Ethics/opinionview.cfm?id=608

This official statement is based upon a professional rule from the Arizona Supreme Court, which at the time stated:

[I]n Arizona, ER 8.3 follows the A.B.A. Model Rules, reading in pertinent part:
“(a) A lawyer having knowledge that another lawyer has committed a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct that raises a substantial question as to that lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects, shall inform the appropriate professional authority, except as otherwise provided in these rules or by law."

http://www.myazbar.org/Ethics/opinionview.cfm?id=608
http://www.myazbar.org/Ethics/ruleview.cfm?id=60

It is certainly a question worth asking whether any of the involved judges who happen to be members of the Arizona State Bar or any of the involved lawyers feel they may have a mandatory, affirmative duty to file a report regarding Mr. Goddard.

A very distinguished, retired Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court wrote some strong words on this topic: Corcoran, "In re Himmel: Am I My Brother's Keeper?" Vol 26, No. 2, Arizona Attorney 15 (October 1989).

The question at this point in time may well be: do we have a possible "Duke Prosecutor" situation hatching here among us in our beautiful State of Arizona? Should certain judges and attorneys take the lead in affirmatively initiating the appropriate investigation by filing a report or reports with the Arizona State Bar? Suggest removal of this comment

July 8, 2007

Emma from Scottsdale

Defendants question the attorney generals motives here? Well Goddard and his office does what they do to gain political power.
Two they do it to gain money to fuel there corruption in this state.

Kevin Ross could not have said it any better along with others in the past who have said the same words about there tactics.

"It's one thing to be a hard-nosed prosecutor," said Ross, a Republican who said it cost him two years and about $250,000 in legal fees to beat the charges Goddard brought against him in 2004. "It's a whole other situation to manufacture cases, to indict people and then search around for a crime. That's what (Goddard) has been doing."

Wake up people this man and his attorneys are in that office for all the wrong reasons. They are not public servants for you the citizen.... Comment has been reviewed

July 9, 2007

Mister X

Defendants question the attorney generals motives here? Well Goddard and his attorney in his office do what they do to gain political power for the next governors race.
Two: they manufacture case with lies and find a crime to apply to it. That is so they can gain money to fuel there office for the continued corruption in this state.

Kevin Ross could not have said it any better along with others in the past who have said the same words about there tactics.

"It's one thing to be a hard-nosed prosecutor," said Ross, a Republican who said it cost him two years and about $250,000 in legal fees to beat the charges Goddard brought against him in 2004. "It's a whole other situation to manufacture cases, to indict people and then search around for a crime. That's what (Goddard) has been doing."

Wake up people Goddard and his attorneys are in that office for all the wrong reasons. They are not public servants for you the citizen as the attorney generals office should be. They find an easy marker make up the case by manufacturing a story line then find criminal law to apply to it. This is how they seize property and person assets.

This is nothing new people this has been going on for years. There last victim that is still in the courts is Western Union.....Goddard would like that victory to fuel his political ambitions and his office with wrongful taken funds of millions of dollars. They are good at doing that taking money and using it to there benifit.

People this is nothing new as it has been in the news for years on how they misuse there badge and there position as a public official. Suggest removal of this comment

July 9, 2007

Sharon in Phx

How can two disgruntled senior employees, Bailey & Kelly not be investigated as well for Conflict of Interest and perjury in court, when their exonerated former boss Kevin Ross was cleared? It is evident to anyone reading this that they wanted a new boss and with Goddard’s help, got one – ambitious Keith Russell.

A couple of months before his political $75,000 prosecution, Kevin bravely and uniquely alerted the taxpayers that Governor Janet Napolitano was getting ready for a big tax increase on their homes by enclosing an extra warning letter in homeowner’s tax bills. Kevin was against big government taxes, and just coincidently a few months later, was hit with a nonsensical criminal felony perfectly timed to derail his certain reelection.

I wonder if Goddard, Goddard’s employees, other state bureaucrats, and even Judges are as clean as these indicted? We request that a thorough investigation be done on each one of them equal to the Ross and Peterson investigations. We’d lose about 1/3 of state government! Goddard step up to the plate or resign. Your gubernatorial ambitions are evident in this mess.

Arizona government is a two-faced crooked snake pit filled with Goddard’s philosophical and personal alliances, 20 times worst than these indicted, yet nothing has been nor will be done to them. Publicly investigate and regularly report to us a deep house cleaning, or quit!

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July 9, 2007

AZ Native

In the case of Sandra Dowling, the Superintendent of Schools, her charges were sent back to the grand jury because Goddard's office withheld evidence. That is not how our system is to work. Dowling had to spend a fortune to get the evidence to demonstrate the unethical conduct of the Attorney General of our state. How does he reconcile that when he looks in the mirror. It's a question of character. Suggest removal of this comment

July 10, 2007

Pat from Phoenix

You are correct when you make the statement
The General Population has no Idea...They do not know how big of a racket they are running riright here in Phoenix... Suggest removal of this comment

July 10, 2007