Controversial Soros-backed district attorney resigns after AG's push to have her removed

[mystery-ak]

 May 4, 2023 5:25pm EDT
Soros-backed prosecutor mired in scandal resigns from office
Kim Gardner steps down after repeated calls for her resignation
By Aaron Kliegman | Fox News

 An embattled George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis resigned Thursday amid a legal effort by Missouri's attorney general to fire her for allegedly neglecting her duties.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, the city's top prosecutor, is stepping down following repeated, bipartisan calls for her resignation from officials across Missouri.

Gardner's office tweeted Gardner's resignation letter, which was addressed to the people of St. Louis.

Gardner is one of the first progressive prosecutors whom Soros, a liberal billionaire and Democrat mega-donor, bankrolled in 2016 and again for her re-election in 2020. She announced last month that she'll seek a third term. Her resignation is effective June 1.

For years, Gardner's office has faced criticism for mishandling cases and office dysfunction. The final straw for Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey came in February, when a teenage volleyball player visiting St. Louis with her team was struck by a car and lost both of her legs.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/soros-backed-prosecutor-mired-scandal-resigns-office

[libertybele]

I just posted under Crime and Punishment -- ooops

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,498786.0.html

[Wingnut]

She is going to become a nurse now.   Heaven help her patients. 

[libertybele]

She is going to become a nurse now.   Heaven help her patients.

[mountaineer]

Good riddance, commie.

[GtHawk]

Wasn't it just the other day she said she wasn't going anywhere? So she is going to become a nurse, I sure hope Jane Toppan isn't the example of nursing she aspires to, but given the people she gave preference to as a prosecutor....

Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley; March 31, 1854 – August 17, 1938), nicknamed Jolly Jane, was an American serial killer who is known to have committed twelve murders in Massachusetts between 1895 and 1901; she confessed to a total of thirty-one murders.

[rangerrebew]

Soros-Backed St. Louis Attorney Kim Gardner Resigns
By Eric Lendrum
May 5, 2023
On Thursday, a progressive prosecutor who was notoriously funded by far-left billionaire George Soros announced her resignation, after months of bipartisan pressure to do so.

Fox News reports that Kim Gardner, the Circuit Attorney for St. Louis, announced that her resignation will be effective June 1st. Gardner was one of the first prosecutors in the country to be bankrolled by Soros, who has since expanded his efforts to other major cities across the country. She was first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020, largely due to Soros’ financial backing. Prior to her resignation announcement, she had declared her intention to run for a third term in 2024.

After years of criticism for being soft on crime and siding with criminals over victims, Gardner faced a whole new wave of criticism from both parties over an incident in February: Teenage volleyball player Janae Edmonson, who was visiting St. Louis from Tennessee for a tournament, was hit by an out-of-control car while crossing the road; although Edmonson survived, she had to have both of her legs amputated.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/05/soros-backed-st-louis-attorney-kim-gardner-resigns/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=63889

[mountaineer]

St. Louis TV station KMOV ponders who might replace commie Kim. A Republican political consultant they queried said he thinks the governor will select a black Democrat with prosecutorial experience. KMOV also suggested a list of potential candidates:

The unofficial list of potential appointees whose names have been floated or who have expressed some interest:

    Thomas Clark, Appeals Court Judge
    Jack Coatar, former Assistant Circuit Attorney, former St. Louis Alderman
    George Draper, Supreme Court Judge
    Patrick Hamacher, former Assistant Circuit Attorney, private practice
    Sheena Hamilton, St. Louis City Counselor
    Reginald Harris, former First Assistant United States Attorney, private practice
    David C. Mason, current St. Louis City Circuit Judge
    Raphael Morris, private practice attorney, municipal Judge
    Michael Mullen, former St. Louis Circuit Judge, private practice attorney
    Michael Noble, current St. Louis City Circuit Judge
    Steve Roberts, State Senator, former Assistant Circuit Attorney
    Ashley Walker, Assistant United States Attorney, former Assistant Circuit Attorney

More at KMOV

[Fishrrman]

"A Republican political consultant they queried said he thinks the governor will select a black Democrat with prosecutorial experience"

NO..!!
Select the hardest-ass white cracker district attorney that can be found, and clean up the St. Louis DA office the way it should be done.

[mountaineer]

This just gets stranger:

AG claims new proof that Gardner was working towards nursing degree on day of contempt hearing
By KMOV Staff
Published: May. 15, 2023 at 6:37 PM EDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago

ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – Court documents state that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was completing clinic work on the day she, or a designee, was supposed to be at a contempt of court hearing.

News 4 Investigates learned Gardner has been enrolled in a post-Master’s nursing program at Saint Louis University since 2021.

In April, the circuit attorney’s office missed two hearings connected to the case of a shooting of an 11-year-old girl. On April 27, Judge Michael Nobel ruled that there was enough evidence to potentially hold Gardner and one of her assistants in contempt. Gardner did not attend the contempt hearing.

In a court filing Monday, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey claimed that on the day of the contempt hearing, Gardner was doing clinic work for her nursing degree. The document states that “Gardner apparently spent the morning and early afternoon hours completing clinic work in pursuit of her nursing degree. Gardner did not personally appear at the show cause hearing that day, and the circuit court concluded that Gardner’s office ‘appear[ed] to be a rudderless ship of chaos.’” ...

https://www.kmov.com/2023/05/15/ag-claims-new-proof-that-gardner-was-working-towards-nursing-degree-day-contempt-hearing/

[mountaineer]

Brutal analysis of Kim Gardner's awful legacy.

Jordan Duecker
An Irredeemable Legacy
Kimberly Gardner’s tenure as St. Louis’s chief prosecutor has done massive damage.
City Journal
May 23 2023

Earlier this month, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, one of several so-called progressive prosecutors backed by George Soros, abruptly resigned after announcing that she would leave office on June 1.

How a story ends often has much to do with how it begins. Gardner’s family has had deep ties to St. Louis, owning, since 1932, a successful funeral home. Her great-grandfather co-founded the first African-American Legion Post and her grandfather led the famed St. Louis Blue Devils jazz band. She was a star athlete in college, earning a nursing degree and a J.D. from St. Louis University. Her radicalization began in 2000, when her younger brother and cousin pled guilty to a violent home burglary after a night of drinking. Each man was sentenced to 20 years in prison, despite pleas for mercy from Gardner’s family. The process, she says, sparked the realization that she would have to be “part of the system” to “change the system.” Sixteen years later, in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in nearby Ferguson, she was elected St. Louis’s first black chief prosecutor.

Gardner’s first years in office were dominated by political score-settling and radical social-justice ideology. Between 2017 and 2019, staff turnover in her office was more than 100 percent, the equivalent of losing 470 years of collective experience. She pursued a botched prosecution of former Missouri governor Eric Greitens, which resulted in a fine and a reprimand by the state supreme court. Her office also created an “exclusion list” of police officers whose cases her office would not prosecute.

In 2019, Missouri’s campaign-finance watchdog slapped Gardner with a $63,000 fine after she acknowledged campaign-finance violations.  ...

Between 2017 and 2022, Gardner’s office dismissed an average of 25 percent of felonies per year—nearly double her predecessor’s rate over the prior eight years. Last year, prosecutors dismissed charges against a man accused of blowing up his ex-wife’s car in front of her home, despite video evidence, after failing to provide him with a speedy trial. During a 2021 murder trial, a judge had to dismiss the case after prosecutors failed to show up in court multiple times. The judge said that Gardner’s office had “essentially abandoned its duty to prosecute those it charges with crimes.”  ...