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June 25, 2007 02:59 PM UTC

The Manzanares Indictment: Pautler's Payback?

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by: riogrande

CastleMan: Let me get this straight. Because the victim of the alleged theft, namely the state judicial administrator’s office, didn’t want to press charges, that means Manzaneres got favorable treatment.

Rather than re-invent the wheel, I’ll let someone else walk you through it: http://thecoloradoin…

As one observer (not me) put it, “The descriptive words ‘judicial independence’ no longer mean a fair and impartial justice system, but, instead, it means independence from the rule of law within the justice system. Even State Attorney Generals must tremble at the prospect of taking on a Judge, much less a Chief Justice.” Having talked with Scott Storey about this very issue (it is one of the perquisites of being a Party official), I can say that he had some trepidations … and we all know what happened to Carol Chambers.

The only way the scandal got out of “Cocaine Mary” Mullarkey’s black hole was through public outrage.

The world over, this is how corrupt bureaucracies make scandals “disappear” — from the Nixon White House to the Romer/Pena machine to the many nooks and crannies of Jeffco. If a strapling George Bush commits insider trading, a discrete call to Daddy’s friends at the SEC derails prosecution, thus making the crime go away under the rubric of “prosecutorial discretion.” Ditto, the official misconduct of the Mullarkey Court (http://home.earthlin…) in my case. “Hanz Manz” was getting the kind of special treatment that is predictable, under any model of bureaucratic corruption that works. You’d expect to see the same use of “discretion” in Jeffco by the Congrove/Paschall crowd, wouldn’t you?

That is not to say that there wasn’t an element of “payback” here. Mark Pautler’s name came up, and the Mullarkey Crime Syndicate put his tail through the ringer not all that long ago. http://home.earthlin…. Try to listen to the Court’s haughty rhetoric in your mind, and apply it to Mullarkey and Manzanares.

While my CrimLaw is admittedly old and cold, the chain of custody issue adds an intriguing element to this scandal. If the police can’t establish a chain of custody for the laptop, how could they prosecute the crime? Could it be that Hanz Manz was going to walk, and the real criminal (“Cocaine Mary”) was never going to be prosecuted? Did Mark Pautler and Scott Storey, knowing this, release a massive affidavit with lurid allegations with the intent to extract a pound of political flesh?

Again, we get back to the specter of kiddie porn, especially if custody issues would make eventual prosecution on the known charges problematic. The more likely it is that Manz would have walked (by getting by with a little help from his Democratic friends from Harvard Law), the more sense it would have made for him to hunker down and weather the storm. And by implication, the more likely it would have been that the likelihood of being caught with kiddie porn precipitated Manz’ suicide.

Sure, it’s speculation … but that’s what we do here at Pols.

One thought on “The Manzanares Indictment: Pautler’s Payback?”

tiltawhirl says:

June 26, 2007 at 7:33 am

Hey, that’s my line, you bastard! 🙂

Seriously, `though, indulge us with the background on the nickName “cocaine Mary” that you keep using. I think I know the answer but, humor us.

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