Reply #11: Reading between the lines on this one, I think we have a filthy corrupt private prison

[Peace Patriot]

system, with locals involved, and others including a state senator, a U.S. attorney, on up the chain to Alberto Gonzales and Dick Cheney (big investor in the private prison system). The locals have been trying to shut Mr. Guerra up, and shut down his investigation/prosecution and that of the grand jury. They filed false charges against him, which Judge Banales dismissed on all counts. (I'm pretty sure it was the same judge.) While this was happening, they raided Guerra's house. Mr. Guerra parked a camper at the courthouse, complete with a horse, two goats and a rooster--to mock their phony raid and charges. Now, what seems to be happening is that Guerra feels that the court proceedings on the indictments that the grand jury brought are being fast-tracked along with other accommodations to the likes of Cheney. He said that he had not received notice of Friday's hearing, and that there is normally a 72 hour time-frame, which was violated. Cheney and Gonzo lawyers were rushing to get a dismissal.

Judge Banales has a point, I think, with regard to Guerra/the grand jury's indictments of the local D.A., etc. These were the same people who filed false charges against him and raided his house. Note: This grand jury investigation was highly secret. There were code names for everybody. And Guerra was holding a lot of info at his house, as I understand it. That's probably why the bad guys filed the baseless charges--to have an excuse to raid his files. (I don't know if they got anything.)

Anyway, that's how I'm seeing it--from reading various news stories. Guerra lost his recent election and has only the same time left in office as Cheney. But he has certainly made his point, as has the grand jury, in exposing this corrupt prison system to national view. I don't know what the situation is as to who might take over the case when he leaves office in January. He continues as the prosecutor of the Cheney/Gonzo part of the case until that time, and I am fairly certain that if he was a "nut" or doing anything improper, Judge Banales would have removed him from the entire case. He did not. So we have a grand jury that corroborates his charges against those operating and profiting from this prison system (including Cheney and Gonzo), and a judge who protected him from false prosecution, and may be protecting the case against the locals by removing Guerra from it, so it has no taint. I'm not positive of the latter--that Judge Banales has the right motives--but that's what it's looking like right now.