{"id":19422,"date":"2018-10-15T19:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T02:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=19422"},"modified":"2018-12-08T01:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T08:35:23","slug":"dv-hypocrisy-bar-to-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/dv-hypocrisy-bar-to-persecution\/","title":{"rendered":"DV Hypocrisy: Bar to Persecution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deputy Prosecutor Dan Crawford’s Past Comes Calling<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Daniel Crawford, esq.–Mason Co. Deputy Prosecutor<\/p><\/div>\n

Shelton, WA (10-15-18) —<\/strong>\u00a0Daniel Crawford served his country as a Marine. He later went to law school, passed the bar, and was admitted to practice law in Washington State 7 years ago.\u00a0 Then he hired on as a deputy prosecutor under Mike Dorcy.\u00a0 Despite Crawford’s handling of the prosecution of the\u00a0 most serious crimes in Mason County Superior Court, any background check was cursory at best.<\/p>\n

Dan Crawford has been zealous in his passion for justice and punishment under the law, perhaps especially in Domestic Violence cases.\u00a0 Dan is, naturally, a law enforcement agent as well as an officer of the court in his current capacity.\u00a0 Prosecutors are expected to carry, if for no other reason, then for their own protection–something a Marine would easily understand.\u00a0 But a Domestic Violence conviction\/finding bars possession\/control of a firearm.\u00a0 Dan claims he wasn’t aware he was barred (contrary to his own sworn declaration in 1998!) and hastened to remedy his handicap earlier this year when, once Dorcy was informed of the problem, he was told he’d best take care of it.<\/p>\n

Acting on Dorcy’s advice, Crawford filed a petition to have the lifetime restraining order imposed against him by a Pierce Co. Superior Court for DV lifted earlier this year.\u00a0 He succeeded.\u00a0 Still, are the optics all wrong, is the appearance of fairness principle violated by a reformed alcoholic or abuser persecuting defendants for the same offense?\u00a0 Moreover, does this conundrum reflect on elected prosecutor Dorcy’s judgment in who he hires\/retains for such prosecutions?\u00a0 DV is, after all, a serious offense spanning every income bracket, ethnic profile, and demographic.\u00a0 It is endemic.<\/p>\n

Yet, perhaps of necessity, when Dan argues a DV case before a jury, he infers that he and the jury are sufficiently virtuous to cast the first stone…regardless of how fragile the glass houses in which they reside(d).<\/p>\n

How fragile is Dan’s glass house? Read the following declarations from a 1998 DV dispute and draw your own conclusions:<\/p>\n

Crawford v. Crawford, PCSC No. 98-2-02332-1 (DV)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

DanCrawford98-2-02332-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Crawford v. Crawford slams Persecutor’s character<\/strong><\/h2>\n

DanCrawford_v_Crawford98-3-03057-6 <\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“My office got a call yesterday from an inmate at the jail.\u00a0 He said that the rumor in the jail is that 3 or 4 deputy prosecutors are quitting because [REDACTED] is putting too much pressure on them.\u00a0 Don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true, but 3 have said they are quitting, including the very aggressive and unreasonable Daniel Crawford.\u00a0 Crawford takes the position that if the guy won\u2019t plead guilty as charged, he is evading responsibility and so Crawford will add as many additional charges as possible, even if it means the defendant will do many times more prison if convicted.\u00a0 He thinks that is fair and so does Dorcy.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s immoral and have told them so.\u00a0 I have two felony cases where they are so unreasonable that I applied maximum pressure, and was met with a motion to disqualify me from the case for a non-existent conflict of interest.\u00a0 Which took all my time away from defending my clients.”<\/p>\n

EARLIER:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

“My office got a call from an inmate in the jail; the guy said it is going around the jail that three deputy prosecutors are quitting because [REDACTED] is putting too much pressure on them.<\/h4>\n

All I\u2019m doing, though, is demanding that they actually follow the law.\u00a0 Futile, because they don\u2019t seem to know any law.\u00a0 But I did hear that Daniel Crawford, Karin Thuma and Paul Harrison are all quitting.\u00a0 \u00a0[Editor’s note: Due to this article?<\/em>]<\/h4>\n

Karin is the only decent person in the bunch, and she is quitting because Dorcy doesn\u2019t let her try enough cases.\u00a0 I think she\u2019s been there longer than Crawford, but he was promoted to adult felonies over her.<\/h4>\n

I don\u2019t blame her; it sounds sexist, but please do not use my name if you print any of this; the prosecutor’s office and sheriff’s office are trying to get rid of me.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been through that before on the [REDACTED] case and it was not fun..”<\/h4>\n
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