By Juan Montoya
Remember way back in October 5 that local blogger Robert Wightman (now warm and fuzzy Bobby) made a federal case of a mistaken address on a Notice to Appear sent by the Cameron County District Attorney's Office which resulted in a warrant issued for the arrest of then-17-year-old Elvira Natalie Gonzalez?
(By the way, we didn't divulge the name of this "disabled" teen, document-driven Wightman did by posting the case face page on his blog.)
The DA's Office, apparently, overlooked the fact that the notice was returned to them by the U.S. Postal Service with an insufficient (wrong) address because the apartment number had not been included.
That was noticed months after the fact by our intrepid fact checker, Wightman.
He at once declared court-appointed attorney Louis Sorola incompetent, and instilled the fear of God into County Court-at-Law # 1 Arturo McDonald and DA Luis V. Saenz with threats of posting on his blog unless they ceased and desisted.
Well, Wightman made it seem like it was though his efforts and threats of hell and brimstone against the perpetrators of this grave injustice that forced McDonald to set a hearing for a plea nine days later. He don't run a blog there. He is pushing back the frontiers of ignorance and injustice, suh!
Well, the upshot of all this sin that this "victim" was let loose on the streets and allowed out of jail.
Sorola, of course, failed as did Saenz and McDonald.
"I have been addressing this problem for some 2 years and the county court judges refuse to fix the problem," Wightman sniffed. "How do you arrest someone for failure to appear when through your own incompetence as DA and Judge failed to provide the defendant with notice to appear? And what is the purpose of defense counsel if they are too lazy to check the file to see if proper notice has even been sent?
The mother is hopping mad. I hope she follows through in going after DA Saenz, Judge McDonald and Louis Sorola."
Well, Wightman got his wish and Gonzalez was let out.
Well, guess what?
We were looking through the Cameron County inmate list just yesterday over at the Odyssey computer system at the Cameron County Clerk's Office and guess what?
There was one Elvira Natalie Gonzalez being held at Rucker-Carrizalez on a charge of Injury to a Child. She is being held there on an investigation by the Brownsville Police Dept. and an order by Municipal Judge Ben Neece since Dec. 8.
Which leads us to the overriding question: If (even with a clerical mistake from Saenz's office) Gonzalez had been held to await trial last October, would that have prevented a child from being injured?
Or – as some of our six readers say (we got a defector from Wightman's blog to El Rrun-Rrun this week) – is it the "gotcha" brownie points that matter to Wightman more?
2 comments:
So you are saying it is okay for people to be wrongfully arrested and detained if somehow through a crystal ball the judge can see into the future and see that they will commit another crime. So who let her out of jail in the first place? Why are you not blaming them? Should they have never set bail to begin with? All Wightman did was point out Saenz is providing the courts with incorrect addresses. So are you saying you are okay with that, or are you just filling space.
Had Saenz provided the correct address she would have appeared in court and still be out to cause an injury to a child. Whose fault would that be?
Your obsession with Wightman only makes you and Sorola look more and more stupid. Had Sorola done his job, the young lady never would have been arrested for failure to appear. No matter how you spin it that fact will never change.
So why are you not causing a storm against those who set Robert Sanchez's bond so low so he could go out and assault his father in law which is what the herald reported? We all know the answer to that one. So long as you are on Roberto Sanchez payroll he gets a pass.
One or your non stupid readers.
Please stop posting that disgusting picture of whitman. It is disturbing.
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