VERY INTERESTING: Harris County leads nation in clearing wrongful convictions https://t.co/8XIL51v3aA via @WatchdogOrg— joan_laloca (@joan_laloca) February 5, 2016
I think the big take away for us is that in 2014, Deputy District Attorney Inger Chandler changed things up. Instead of being reactive to convictions to determine if they are valid or wrongful, the department has taken a proactive approach to ensure that all the i’s are dotted and t’s crossed as relates to the lab work and proving that the substances the person is being convicted for in drug possession cases are truly the substances they had in their possession—no false positives.
So the question has to be asked, if the DA’s office implemented these new policies in early 2014 and Candice’s plea deal, in Harris County, was late 2014, would that guilty plea acceptance by the DA’s office been contingent upon the toxicology report supporting the DWI that Candy pled to? Would this plea deal have been vetted and approved by that department to even go forward—as it apparently does in other kinds of cases such as drug possession?
Regardless, I for one am happy to see that a DA’s office is working to ensure that those convicted are not wrongly convicted and that those taking plea deals are not doing it simply to lessen the impact of a wrongful conviction.
I know, you all thought I was going to end it without pointing out the obvious, and that is, Candice Schwager thru her puppet and surrogate Joan hopes that by pushing people towards this article it will open up doubt in her conviction, that we will all of a suddenly think that she was wrongly convicted rather then getting off easy with a plea deal, that her plea deal was about lessening the “wrongful conviction,” that ultimately, somehow we would know in our hearts that she was truly innocent.
I think the effect is the opposite! We looked up wrongful conviction demographics, in one article, it can be extrapolated out that white women such as Candice represent less then 3% of all wrongful convictions with an even fewer, .2% or less falling under White Women convicted of crimes like DWI/Intoxicated Assault with a Vehicle among other non-robbery & non-murder crimes. Thus, out of 1,000 wrongful convictions only 2 could match Candice by demographic and charges, a that is a big “could match.” That is a very small number, especially when you factor in the amount of valid convictions that happen each day in this country, the odds are certainly NOT in her favor.
Further, I think the lengths that the DA’s office of Harris County is going thru in this article to not only reverse but prevent wrongful convictions and wrongful plea deals in the first place not only validate and strengthen Candy’s DWI conviction exponentially but work to strengthen the confidence in the system that innocent until proven guilty still rings true!
—What do all of you think? Candy, Joan, any comments?
"To keep from repeating the mistake, the Harris County District Attorney now has a policy of not accepting guilty pleas in drug cases until the supposed drugs are tested.”Further, they are working to stamp out people making plea deals for a lessor crime so they do not receive a harsher punishment for something they are actually innocent of in the first place or because they do not want it to drag on for ever. Even today, a tweet from Candy eludes to this idea of being tired and taking the plea deal for the DWI rather then continuing on the path of trial by jury:
Second issue, Go ask Allyson B at the DA office how she violated my rights, Brady? Bunch of thugs in the toxicology dept. I was tired. it.— Renegade Atty (@RenegadeAtty) February 8, 2016
So the question has to be asked, if the DA’s office implemented these new policies in early 2014 and Candice’s plea deal, in Harris County, was late 2014, would that guilty plea acceptance by the DA’s office been contingent upon the toxicology report supporting the DWI that Candy pled to? Would this plea deal have been vetted and approved by that department to even go forward—as it apparently does in other kinds of cases such as drug possession?
Regardless, I for one am happy to see that a DA’s office is working to ensure that those convicted are not wrongly convicted and that those taking plea deals are not doing it simply to lessen the impact of a wrongful conviction.
I know, you all thought I was going to end it without pointing out the obvious, and that is, Candice Schwager thru her puppet and surrogate Joan hopes that by pushing people towards this article it will open up doubt in her conviction, that we will all of a suddenly think that she was wrongly convicted rather then getting off easy with a plea deal, that her plea deal was about lessening the “wrongful conviction,” that ultimately, somehow we would know in our hearts that she was truly innocent.
I think the effect is the opposite! We looked up wrongful conviction demographics, in one article, it can be extrapolated out that white women such as Candice represent less then 3% of all wrongful convictions with an even fewer, .2% or less falling under White Women convicted of crimes like DWI/Intoxicated Assault with a Vehicle among other non-robbery & non-murder crimes. Thus, out of 1,000 wrongful convictions only 2 could match Candice by demographic and charges, a that is a big “could match.” That is a very small number, especially when you factor in the amount of valid convictions that happen each day in this country, the odds are certainly NOT in her favor.
Further, I think the lengths that the DA’s office of Harris County is going thru in this article to not only reverse but prevent wrongful convictions and wrongful plea deals in the first place not only validate and strengthen Candy’s DWI conviction exponentially but work to strengthen the confidence in the system that innocent until proven guilty still rings true!
—What do all of you think? Candy, Joan, any comments?
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