In Victoria County, Texas police are said to be frustrated and even “alarmed” because the District Attorney won’t prosecute all of their arrests.
The DA says, “Well provide some freakin’ evidence and perhaps I will be able to prosecute!” Well, I guess he didn’t say it precisely like that, but you get the idea. He’s telling them that lack of evidence is why more cases aren’t being prosecuted.
District Attorney did say to them, flat out, “If you cannot do your duty, you need to resign and give the duty to someone who can.” Oh, Snap!
During the first 7 months of Steve Tyler’s term as District Attorney in Victoria County, he declined to prosecute 36 percent of all adult criminal cases and 50 percent of all the juvenile cases.
One local police chief is complaining that the rate of criminal arrests that are not being prosecuted is double what it was under the previous District Attorney. He says his investigators are highly trained and are presenting good cases and he wants to fix this situation.
Deputies and officers in Victoria County gather evidence in cases and then pass it on to DA Steve Tyler, he then makes a determination as to whether or not he thinks he can successfully prosecute the case.
A Texas Alcohol and Tobacco Commission sergeant is also complaining that it’s harder to get his cases prosecuted with this DA as well.
The previous DA says that he is behind Tyler, and says he just has a different method. The officers are just used to the old way of doing things and are having a problem trying to adapt to Tyler’s way of handling cases.
Legal guidelines in Texas require that prosecutors follow the law and see that justice is served, and that does not always mean prosecution and conviction.
Tyler stands by his record of declining to prosecute cases with insufficient evidence. He says that if the police don’t know the law, then they need to learn it. He says he will not compromise and lower his standards to make them happy and he will continue to function according to the law.
Well done Tyler. Put those pigs in their place!
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1 Scott // Dec 15, 2007 at 11:52 pm
You really don’t know what you are talking about.
Victoria PD has a very high conviction rate and presents many quality cases. Tylers claims of “no Evidence” is BS.
Tyler declined one case because “Driving slow was not a sufficient reason to initiate a traffic stop”
He is right.. it’s not.
However the stop was not initiated because of the offender’s slow driving. but the “Failure to signal”
DOH!
the result of Tyler’s throwing out a good case for the wrong reason is a Criminal druggie (He had drugs and an illegal concealed weapon as well) is back on the streets of Victoria.
This is but one example of what Tyler is doing.
Today he is not even bothering to claim the cases are bad. He is rejecting ALL cases and now the Justice system is at a grinding halt.
Judge weiser released several criminals from jail because their cases went past their statutory limits for prosecution because Tyler will not accept any cases from VPD or VCSO. Weiser also wrote a letter to Tyler chastizing him for his arrogance and his destruction of the Victoria justice system
Yeah. Way to go Tyler (Sarcasm)
2 Scott // Dec 16, 2007 at 12:09 am
What Tyler IS doing in Victoria…
Throwing out good cases based on faulty reasoning. See my above comment for an example.
Ripping into his OWN witness for the persecution to make him look bad in an otherwise open and shut case (Look up about the Maximus Robbery)
The Judge had to stop the proceedings and chastize Tyler for badgering his own witness
Persecuting an individual whom he LOST the case. Tyler prosecuted a police officer with no evidence other than hearsay. Tyler unsurprisingly lost the case. the Officer was found NOT GUILTY. Tyler unsatisfied with the law… proceeded to make life hell for the officer, demanding the City Fire the Officer even though he was innocent. then going to Austin to the state board and demanding they revoke the officer’s Peace Officers License
Tyler is refusing to recuse himself and appoint a special prosecuter from a very public trial of HIS OWN CHIEF OF STAFF! Mike Ratcliff was arrested right out of Tylers own office after a year long investigation into his aledged sexual assault of a teenaged boy during Ratcliffs tenure as Sheriff. All of the Area Judges have recused themselves and a speciala Judge brought in from San Antonio. Tyler who has a working relationship with Ratcliff not only as his Boss but also from when Ratcliff was Sheriff and Tyler was an assist DA as well as a criminal defense Lawyer.
Tyler is outright lying to the people of Victoria in multiple interviews both by the Victoria Advocate and TV (KAVU Ch 25)
Tyler refuses to accept ANY cases from either VPD or VCSO if they do not sign a special affidavit he (Tyler) created that forces the Officer to swear that ALL Evidence and ALL witness have been found and identified. This is an IMPOSSIBLE standard to meet and forces an officer to swear to things he cannot possibly know. Tyler does this so that :
a) he can blame officers for his failure to get a conviction and ..
b) He can prosecute and bring charges on officers for swearing falsly.
Yea… way to go Tyler
Victoria Citizens are now loking at filing a petition charging Tyler with gross negligence in fulfilling the duties of his office and requesting his removal from office by Jury trial as allowed under Vernons Texas Statutes Chapter 87
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