WHAT WOULD ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY JACK MCCOY DO?
For two days last month, Barbara LaWall delivered the gospel in the case against three former prosecutors she fired or suspended. Her acolytes delivered the sermons on other days. They all preached accountability, prosecuting crimes, protecting the community from thugs and villains, and the importance of hard work, preparedness and honesty. Finally, LaWall, a Democrat, confirmed the buck stops with her, as the county’s top law enforcement official who was handed a third term in an electoral tsunami on Nov. 2. Now comes the revelation of 539 felony drug-case dismissals, and LaWall’s ‘fessing up about another broken-down process that has resulted in the failure to make arrests in 236 domestic violence cases–news that was first reported on Cinco de Mayo by Lupita Murillo of KVOA. Hats off also to the Arizona Daily Star for getting stunning quotes from LaWall the next day, including: “It was a systems failure. When problems happen on an airplane, the machine doesn’t work right, you can’t
