Angela Corey's Checkered Past
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 1:05 pm
http://nationalreview.com/article/35363 ... ian-tuttle
Angela Corey's Checkered Past
The article, all factual and documented, paints a picture of a truly UGLY person with no respect for the law or the courts. Now, she was appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott, a republican known generally to be a conservative (Wiki Page), and who assumed office in January of 2011. Corey was elected in 2008, already possessed of a reputation as a fearsome and vindictive ogre. There are four other district circuit prosecutors in Florida. Angela Corey is only the prosecutor of the 4th district. Sanford is in the 5th district. Given her reputation—which could NOT have been a surprise to Scott—how is it that the case was not assigned to a prosecutor from the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd district? This very much calls into question Rick Scott's judgement as the chief executive of the state. He had options. He chose the worst one from the perspective of the administration of justice.
Biggest surprise of all (to republicans outside of Florida).........Angela Corey is an ACTIVE member of the republican party in Florida! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Corey#Politics There is no way that Rick Scott is going to remove her because he owes her.
Bet you weren't expecting THAT one!
Angela Corey's Checkered Past
This woman is a legal train-wreck, but the only way she can be disbarred is by the governor removing her from office first, because her position protects her from disbarment, and she is an elected official. If the voters of Florida's 4th Judicial Circuit (MAP, Palm Beach County, Broward County, St. Lucie County, Martin County, Indian River County, and Okeechobee County) keep reelecting her, she can't be touched......and her pal Holder would likely investigate for racism anyone who tried.Angela Corey, by all accounts, is no Atticus Finch. She is “one hell of a trial lawyer,” says a Florida defense attorney who has known her for three decades — but the woman who has risen to national prominence as the “tough as nails” state attorney who prosecuted George Zimmerman is known for scorching the earth. And some of her prosecutorial conduct has been, well, troubling at best.
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Corey knows about personal vendettas. They seem to be her specialty. When Ron Littlepage, a journalist for the Florida Times-Union, wrote a column criticizing her handling of the Christian Fernandez case — in which Corey chose to prosecute a twelve-year-old boy for first-degree murder, who wound up locked in solitary confinement in an adult jail prior to his court date — she “fired off a two-page, single-spaced letter on official state-attorney letterhead hinting at lawsuits for libel.”
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Not many people are willing to cross Corey. A Florida attorney I spoke with declined to go on record because of “concerns about retaliation” — that attorney has pending cases that will require Corey’s cooperation. The attorney mentioned colleagues who have refused to speak to the media for the same reason.
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In June 2012, Alan Dershowitz, a well-known defense attorney who has been a professor at Harvard Law School for nearly half a century, criticized Corey for her affidavit in the Zimmerman case.
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Shortly after Dershowitz’s criticisms, Harvard Law School’s dean’s office received a phone call. When the dean refused to pick up, Angela Corey spent a half hour demanding of an office-of-communications employee that Dershowitz be fired.
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Corey also told the communications employee that she had assigned a state investigator..............to investigate Dershowitz.
The article, all factual and documented, paints a picture of a truly UGLY person with no respect for the law or the courts. Now, she was appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott, a republican known generally to be a conservative (Wiki Page), and who assumed office in January of 2011. Corey was elected in 2008, already possessed of a reputation as a fearsome and vindictive ogre. There are four other district circuit prosecutors in Florida. Angela Corey is only the prosecutor of the 4th district. Sanford is in the 5th district. Given her reputation—which could NOT have been a surprise to Scott—how is it that the case was not assigned to a prosecutor from the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd district? This very much calls into question Rick Scott's judgement as the chief executive of the state. He had options. He chose the worst one from the perspective of the administration of justice.
Biggest surprise of all (to republicans outside of Florida).........Angela Corey is an ACTIVE member of the republican party in Florida! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Corey#Politics There is no way that Rick Scott is going to remove her because he owes her.
Bet you weren't expecting THAT one!