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January 10, 2008
The irony of what brought Rosenthal down
Isn't it ironic that tough-guy district attorney Chuck Rosenthal was ultimately brought down as a result of his refusal to stand up to the Harris County Sheriff's Department?
As this Peggy O'Hare/Chronicle article reports, Rosenthal made the appalling decision to prosecute two brothers who were wrongfully arrested and roughed up by sheriff deputies for committing the heinous "crime" of unobtrusively videotaping from a neighboring property some questionable conduct of the deputies during a drug raid. What on earth was Rosenthal thinking in allowing such an absurd prosecution to go forward? No wonder he is in the middle of a wrongful arrest civil lawsuit.
By the way, the four deputies who wrongfully arrested the two brothers remain employed by the sheriff's department. And the Attorney General is now looking into Rosenthal's emails.
Posted by Tom at January 10, 2008 12:05 AM
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