Paging the Pulitzer Committee : Lone Star Times

Paging the Pulitzer Committee

by David Benzion · 04/11/2006 5:34 am

Every day, the editors of the Houston Chronicle get two shots– just TWO– to "officially" opine about any subject in the entire world.

Today, they devote one of their editorials to slapping down a still-maturing junior prosecutor in Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal’s office for throwing a bit of a tantrum after losing a case.

Oookay.

I can hardly believe I’m wasting a blog post on an item like this… and my "ink" is free.

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6 Responses to “Paging the Pulitzer Committee”

Eric Johnson on April 11th, 2006 at 5:44 am

David:

I strongly feel that this young dedicated person deserved a spot on your blog and CARES PASSIONATELY about right and wrong. Lets run them for Mayor
fasternu426 on April 11th, 2006 at 7:54 am

Wow, I wonder how he would’ve reacted if he worked on the OJ trial??
shannon on April 11th, 2006 at 9:16 am

If this was such a cut and dried case, the young prosecutor would have gotten his conviction. Numerous articles written in recent years bemoaning the “low quality” of the jury pool notwithstanding, and as imperfect as the system is, we have no choice but to trust the judgement of juries.
With the limited information provided in the article, and not having been there to hear the evidence, I still think had I been one of those jurors I would have told that prosecutor to #!%* off.
shannon on April 11th, 2006 at 9:21 am

Now, as to whether this deserved editorial space in a big city newspaper……..nah, probably not.
Astrosmith on April 11th, 2006 at 10:12 am

Mrs. Astro and I are in our early thirties, yet we have between us only ONE jury summons, and that was hers to go to the Harris County courthouse back in 1998. I went with her the first day, just to see where everything was. She was let go after three days, and IIRC, she said that some of the people down there for jury duty were idiots, but most seemed to be good, regular people.

I don’t believe the jurors are stupid. This prosecutor needs to buck up and do a better job next time.

Now, when am -I- going to finally get a jury summons? I WANT to serve on a jury!!! Call me crazy, but I’d like to do my duty at least once.
jimbow on April 11th, 2006 at 6:12 pm

Let’s go back to Criminal Law 1.

The state’s role is to promote justice, not just win convictions.

I know nothing about the facts of the case, but the Harris County DA’s mentality is to rack up victories and then whine when the office loses five percent of its (usually ill-advised) trials.