Seattle Defense Attorneys Tried To Block Judge Who Sentenced Man With 73 Convictions To Jail

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https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/02/26/seattle-defense-attorney-tried-block-judge-sentenced-man-73-convictions-jail/

Seattle Defense Attorneys Tried To Block Judge Who Sentenced Man With 73 Convictions To Jail

As of last January, 55-year-old homeless drug addict Francisco Calderon had been convicted 72 times for various offenses including 14 different assaults. The offense which brought him to court for the 73rd time was similar
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Calderon was arrested and pleaded guilty before Judge Ed McKenna. City Attorney Pete Holmes and Department of Public Defense Director Anita Khandelwal agreed to a plea deal in Calderon’s case. He would get time served plus two years of probation and drug treatment. Judge McKenna asked the City Attorney to reconsider the deal but Holmes felt probation was sufficient.

And that’s when something pretty unusual happened, at least by the standards of the Seattle justice system. Instead of going along with the plea deal, Judge McKenna threw the book at Calderon. “I’m not sure I have ever seen a more significant history of violent offenses,” McKenna said of Calderon’s long record. ... Judge McKenna rejected the plea deal and gave Calderon the maximum sentence for a misdemeanor assault: 364 days in jail. That was in January of 2019.

For what it’s worth, Calderon’s own sister said Judge McKenna, “made the right decision.” But City Attorney Holmes and Public Defense Director Khandelwal were outraged at having their plea deal rejected. In April of 2019 they co-wrote a letter accusing Judge McKenna of violating the canon of judicial ethics. ...
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... The situation was so absurd that the Seattle Times published an editorial criticizing the attack on Judge McKenna for doing his job. But it seems that wasn’t the end of the story. Today, KOMO news reports that after McKenna’s refusal to step aside the city’s public defenders began a quiet, months-long campaign designed to prevent McKenna from hearing cases.

FWIW, KOMO, who is the local TV station that broke this is owned by Progs' bogeyman, Sinclair Broadcasting. IMO, this obviously coordinated attack on a judge for daring to do his job should get every attorney who participated in it disbarred, for at least 10 years.