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did politics and your desire for reelection play any part in the way you handled this case no not at all not at
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all do you understand why the defense is saying it kind of looks that way there was the sort of the quick
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indictment was it a coincidence that election day was 8 Days hence or it was a coincidence in the sense
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that there was a grand Juran session uh it was in the sense that law enforcement in a joint meeting decided
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they wanted to proceed with presentment to a grand jury as opposed to making an independent determination of probable
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cause to bring a charge does it make you angry that this charge has been made um you know it doesn't make me
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angry that the defense attorneys make that charge because that's what defense attorneys in my mind do uh they're all
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about smoke mirrors what they can do to to further the advocacy of their client um I think when people make it that
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aren't the defense attorneys it angers me a little bit Yeah because I think that most people know that I'm probably
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the least political person in Baldwin County politics runs through this case I mean like it or not and let me just ask
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you I mean the charge has been made by uh Angel's family among other people that you declined to prosecute for
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murder in an effort to embarrass your predecessor first off anybody who knows me knows that
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there's nothing that could be further from the truth on that I I am um never going to let somebody who killed a woman
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get away with it for anybody's Vendetta or anything there's nothing that could be further from the truth uh but second
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of all I don't think they understand that politically it was a heck of a lot harder to do this and do the right thing
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than it would have been to just prosecute him to me when the evidence continues to not support it and when you
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have the prosecution releasing things that you know the da da moment of we might have this or we may have this and
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anything that looks like you might do it but then withholding everything that disproves it that seemed to indicate a
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decision to me a decis ision to to prosecute him for murder come what may whatever the evidence may
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be