Municipal courts are well-oiled money machine

[pstokely]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/municipal-courts-are-well-oiled-money-machine/article_2f45bafb-6e0d-5e9e-8fe1-0ab9a794fcdc.html
"The email in Keith Cheung’s inbox was from a judge asking for a favor. The subject line: “Help!!!”
The sender was Wes Dalton, then an associate circuit court judge in Warren County. It was about a case in Frontenac Municipal Court, where Cheung was prosecuting attorney. The defendant was Dana Baker, 18, one of three teens who had been written summonses for illegal possession of alcohol.

Dalton’s email said that the 18-year-old was the daughter of “our connection” to Porto Cima, a private golf club at the Lake of the Ozarks, the resort area where the annual Missouri Bar Association conference is held.

“Her Dad is Wayne Baker (owner of Warrenton Oil and a ----load of other stuff),” Dalton wrote. “Can we make this one go away??? By the way, we’re hooked up for golf at Porto Cima at the Conference!!! (is no cost okay???)!!”

[Downwinder]

1. Good article.

When Law Enforcement becomes a profit center,
it becomes corrupt.

Corrupt law enforcement is worse than no law enforcement.

[hobbit709]

2. In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. ...Lenny Bruce.