Al Garcia--Innocent, huh???

Well, every once in a while I think I know how something is going to turn out and then it doesn't.  Coked-out alleged rapist, convicted meth manufacturer, and distributor,  Al Garcia, Esq. was acquitted of rape by a Minneapolis jury, late this afternoon.  The story is at the link from the Minneapolis Star Tribune website.

Do I think for a second that Al Garcia is not a rapist?  No. There was just too much corroborating testimony from other women he pulled his sexy-lawyer-shtick-on, but the jury apparently didn't believe that the prosecution proved the case.   The jury seems not to have believed that he forcibly raped this client.  She testified to some pretty rough stuff that was not supported by physical evidence.

He's a scumbag, and as far as these charges are concerned he is a very lucky (depending on your definition of lucky) man. 

Oh as a post-script just before the trial, Garcia tried to dismiss his lawyer, but the Judge would not permit the discharge of counsel and the case proceeded to trial.  His lawyer persuasively argued that Al Garcia was "not professional," but not a rapist.  The jury bought this. 

It sounds to me like Garcia got lucky in this case, except that he's still a coked-out rapist asshole, but he's "not guilty."

Al Garcia, Esq.--Coked-Out Rapist-Part 2

I reported on the arrest and prosecution of lawer Al Garcia, former Minneapolis City Hall mover and shaker and I offered the observation that at his rape trial the victim testified to Garcia's matter-of-fact manner.  Garcia's blatant behavior as he pulled out cocaine ingested it like a pig in a trough then raped his prospective client, suggested to me that this hardly his first victim.  After reading the former client's testimony you could easily infer that Garcia was a serial sex offender.  These kind of guys, don't start out with dope and rape--no, there have been years of pulling this lesser sorts of stunts. 

In Garcia's case he was probably fully at it in college.  Since then who knows, my educated guess there are many victims since then--most of whom won't publically number themselves as his victims.  Garcia possessed power and coercion along with a now permanently void law license. 

Sure enought today 3 further Garcia victims testified at the trial according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.  The evidentiary part of the trial concluded today and the jury returns next week for instruction and deliberations.