By Emerson Drake
6/7/11
From the Board of Supervisors meeting 6/7/11 District Attorney Birgit Fladager, on plea bargaining as opposed to jury trials because she doesn't have enough attorneys: "Our focus has gone from getting every pound of flesh we can ... to, `We need to get these cases through the system, get a disposition and move on.'"
Maybe this explains why Abbey was undercharged and why her bail was set so low. But this also effects every single violent offender L/E arrests and charges. Is Fladager saying she's giving up aggressively prosecuting and jailing murders?
Can we expect justice when the Sheriff and his assistant are still "friending" the likes of Kari Abbey on facebook? Sheriff Adam Christianson stated in public after 7 days of investigation that Abbey was innocent as far as he was concerned.
When asked about his position on the Kari Abbey case recently Christianson said "I know things that you don't".
Fladager and Christianson both ran on the promise they would "take a strong stand on law and order and be tough on lawbreakers," but maybe that only applies to people they don't know or didn't contribute to their campaigns?
We watched Fladager plea bargain with a pedophile to the point he wasn't required to register on the California Registered Sex Offenders list (before you ask yes Chip Huskey was a member of Law enforcement when he violated his stepdaughter) and are we now to witness her bargain with the Killer of Rita Elias, Kari Abbey.
Can a Stanislaus County Sheriff's Detective get away with murder and seven other felony's?
Maybe, just maybe, if Christianson and Fladager get their way
