AZCentral.com is reporting that Sheriff Joe has submitted a bill to County Supervisors requesting a special allocation of $7 million to pay "outside counsel," these are the attorneys hired by the Sheriff when he sues and gets sued by other Maricopa County officials.
Ah, yes...Maricopa County you got America't toughest sheriff, he violates constitutional rights of criminal suspects, he shuts down your courthouse, he sues your other elected officials, and now he wants you to give him an extra $7 mil, to pay private attorneys to represent him. Happy now?
for more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2009/12/07/20091207legalcosts1207-ON.html
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ReplyDeleteUnbelievably this asshole has filed a wide-ranging federal lawsuit accusing the Superior Court Judges, and many of the county officials of civil conspiracies to thwart the "enforcement of the law."