Re: Austin's Soros-backed DA slammed after woman convicted in plot to murder in-laws dodges prison

[ESG - DEI]

On 09 Nov 2021, Steve Cummings <jth...@gmail.com> posted some
news:smfeht$klc$1...@news.dns-netz.com:

> He got some pussy from from cunt and that was all it took.

Residents of Austin, Texas, and crime victims' families are speaking out
after District Attorney Jose Garza signed off on a plea deal for a woman
for her part in a murder-for-hire plot that targeted her in-laws.

Jaclyn Alexa Edison was sentenced last week in Travis County, Texas, to 10
years probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to attempt to commit
capital murder by hiring two hit men who ultimately killed her then-
husband’s father. The boyfriend's mother survived.

Edison’s husband, Nicolas Shaughnessy, and the two hit men accepted plea
deals of 35 years in prison. The victims' families said that deal was too
lenient, but Austin Police Retired Officers Association President Dennis
Farris told Fox News Digital that Edison should have faced the same
punishment as the others.

"She should have gotten the same thing they got," Farris said. "They
literally are just as guilty, she’s just as guilty as the person who
pulled the trigger."

Edison, who was 19 years old at the time of the crime, was offered
"deferred adjudication," which means she accepted responsibility for the
crime but the conviction was not placed on her record. The lawyer for the
surviving victim said he has never seen a similar outcome.

"In the close to half a century that I’ve worked with criminal law as a
prosecutor and a defense attorney … I have never seen anything like this,"
attorney Steve Brittain told KXAN-TV. "I can’t put it together in my mind,
and I just don’t understand it."

Edison and her now ex-husband were accused of hiring Arieon Smith and
Johnny Leon in 2018 to kill Shaughnessy's adopted parents who owned
Gallerie Jewelers in Austin in a scheme they hoped would net them their $2
million life insurance policy.

SOROS DA'S HANDLING OF DEADLY AUSTIN MASS SHOOTING STILL 'CAUSING
DISTRESS' 2 YEARS LATER: VICTIM'S BROTHER

Ted Shaughnessy was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in a hallway of
his home after his wife, Corey Shaughnessy, returned fire at the hit men
until she ran out of ammunition and hid in a closet to call 911,
authorities said.

"You can withdraw money from the bank to pay to have your in-laws killed,
and this district attorney is going to let you basically walk away,"
Farris said. "I mean this is just insane."

'STUNNED' MOTHER OF DEPUTY KILLED BY MOTORIST BLASTS SOROS DA FOR NOT
PURSUING CHARGES: 'UNCONSCIONABLE'

While part of Edison’s probation says she must check in to the Travis
County Jail for two days each year on the anniversary of the murder as
part of her probation, Farris told Fox News Digital that’s a slap on the
wrist and that she will probably end up spending less than two days in
jail based on the way the jails credit time served based on the time of
day you clock in.

Garza, who was backed by a PAC linked to billionaire George Soros, has
been criticized for years for what the families of crime victims say is a
soft-on-crime approach that stems from adherence to progressive politics
and "reimagining" the justice system.

One of those family members is Nicholas Kantor, whose brother, Doug, was
an innocent bystander when he was shot and killed in 2021 when two rival
gangs of teenagers opened fire on each other in downtown Austin in one of
the worst mass shootings in the city's history. Two years later, Nicholas
Kantor says Garza's office has yet to deliver justice for his family and
has even impeded progress toward that goal.

Kantor told Fox News Digital in response to news of Edison's probation
sentence that people need to ask themselves how they would feel if Edison
had killed their mother or their father.

SOROS DA PUT MURDER CASE ON 'BACK BURNER' BECAUSE IT DOESN'T 'FIT' LIBERAL
AGENDA: VICTIM'S FAMILY

"Would you feel contentment that the DA provided you with justice and
peace of mind to settle your heart?" Kantor said.

"This is about the future of the justice system, if we continue to stand
idle through deals and decisions like this without any protests and
outrage, that this will become the new normal," Kantor added. "And while
today it may be somebody else’s broken heart, tomorrow it could very well
be yours."

Garza ran on a platform of prosecuting police officers and has already
gone after several of them, including the indictment of over 20 Austin
police officers for their roles in subduing a Black Lives Matter riot in
the wake of George Floyd’s death. He also worked to convict Army Sgt.
Daniel Perry to 25 years in prison for shooting an armed Black Lives
Matter protester who approached his car with a raised AK-47 style weapon.

"This is a sweetheart deal," Farris said. "Do you think he would offer or
make a deal with the police officers he's charged? Things are getting
worse in Travis County because we are refusing to put people in jail for
the worst crimes they commit."

Garza's office did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News
Digital.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

Norm#1
2 hours ago

We live outside of Austin, and it has turned in Little Chicago with crime
in the last few years. On July 1st the Texas DPS will go back to work
alongside the local police to try to get a handle on it.

https://news.yahoo.com/austins-soros-backed-da-slammed-110053028.html