One of North Florida's Three Most Embarassing Prosecutors Quoted in Washington Post

Yesterday's Washington Post Opinion page column on Jacksonville's State's Attorney Angela B. Corey appears below.

As my Irish grandmother would have said, "She's typical of her type."

Self-righteous, declaring herself to be a "career prosecutor" on a mission from God, Angela B. Corey has wrongfully fired employees (recently settling one case). The neighboring prosecutor in three counties (Clay, Duval and Nassau), Fourth Circuit State's Attorney Angela Corey is an embarassment, closely resembling States Attorneys Bradley King and Ralph Joseph Larizza in her ostrich-like demeanor.

State's Attorney Angela B. Corey refused to comment on the Michelle O'Connell case, revealed by the New York Times and PBS Frontline, because she doesn't read newspapers! She threatened Harvard Law School and Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz with retalaiatory Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP suit) and threatened Prof. Dershowitz with disbarment for criticizing her chargin decision in the prosecution of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case!

It appears that Angela B. Corey jashis an enemy of Freedom of the Press. Corey readily admits she wants to keep information secret, the way they do in other states," signalling her overt intent to violate civil rights by violating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 24 of the Florida Constitution when it comes to criminal cases.

Angela B. Corey sounds like a couple other State's Attorneys in North FLorida -- reactionary ignoramuses and barbarians.

Due to lax press coverage, they can be unfair (and they are) and they routinely get away with it, refusing to prosecute meritorious cases because of the identity of the perpetrator or victim while prosecuting other cases out of malice and vindictiveness or prejudice.

As the Post rightly notes, Corey and other Florida prosecutors have the power to determine who will live and who will die, and who will go to prison (or not). While literacy ests were outlawed for voting, we need more articles like this to tell us what public officias are thinking (if anything).

We need prosecutors with ethics -- more people like the late Supreme Court Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson, former Attorney General and the U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, who told U.S. Attorneys in 1940:
"The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty and reputation than any other person in America."