Progressive St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner Resigns

Progressive St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner Resigns

Progressive St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner Resigns

So, Kim Gardner resigns instead of waiting around to get fired. She announced her resignation, effective June 1st, yesterday afternoon.

In a letter addressed to Gov. Mike Parson, Gardner made no mention of the turmoil in her office nor the extensive staff departures in recent weeks. Instead, she said she was stepping down, effective June 1, to prevent the state Legislature from passing a bill that would strip her of most of her power and “permanently remove the right of every St. Louis voter to elect their Circuit Attorney.”

Well, that’s certainly one way to spin it. However, there’s a great deal more to the story than those icky Republicans in the State Legislature trying to force her out. It’s not politics that have people wanting her gone. It’s her sheer incompetence and very progressive policies that support criminals and ruthlessly ignore, or vilify the victims of crime. 

There are multiple cases where the prosecutors should’ve shown up, but didn’t, as prosecutors either weren’t assigned, or were quitting. Further, there were weaponized prosecutions including that of the McCloskey’s after rioters broke into Portland Place and threatened them along with other homeowners. 

But it was THIS case that really drew attention to how incompetent Gardner is, and how her progressive policies are putting lives in danger. 

St. Louis prosecutors came under fire Tuesday for failing to try to put a man back in jail even though he violated the conditions of his bond more than 50 times.

Instead, Daniel Riley was left free, and police say he sped down a downtown street this past weekend, causing a crash that left an out-of-town teenager critically injured.

Janae Edmondson was downtown at the America Center for a major volleyball tournament. She was a multi-sport athlete on her way to a great college career. Riley, because he was free to roam instead of being IN JAIL, caused the crash that led to Janae having to have BOTH legs amputated. 

As it turns out, once people started digging more into the issue, Gardner’s office KNEW Riley was a risk. They KNEW he was violating his bond, had figured out how to ditch his ankle monitor, and ….did NOTHING. 

The more people dug into the issues of the office, the more they found, such as prosecutors (very possibly at Gardner’s direction) were lying to the court about what they did and didn’t know. 

A spokesperson for Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner defended the office on Tuesday, saying the case was dropped and re-filed because the victim died before trial, throwing a wrench into prosecution. The spokesperson also said the final ruling on whether a suspect’s bond is revoked is in the hands of a judge.

But a judge’s order from the day the case was dropped shows the victim was alive and present for the hearing, and prosecutors weren’t ready to proceed. And court officials said they never knew Riley violated his bond, because prosecutors never filed a motion to revoke it.

“Every time a violation was filed, the assigned prosecutor and defense attorney of record received a notification via email according to normal procedure,” said courts spokesperson Joel Currier. “However, the prosecutor, to date, has never filed a motion.”

OH. That’s wonderfully comforting. Then again, those who wanted to actually do their jobs found themselves so hamstrung by Gardner’s progressive policies that they ended up quitting and going elsewhere. 

Gardner’s policies also include arrogantly ignoring lawful orders from judges. There were ten major allegations against Gardner. Including a toxic work environment, refusal to review use-of-force incidents by police, refusing to engage with crime victims and their families, having cases dismissed out of hand, and more. 

Refusing to show up before a judge is a really BAD idea. 

Furthermore, as was just found out in the last few days, it seems Kim Gardner had embarked on a different career path!  

Before becoming a state representative in 2013, Gardner was a registered nurse, and she appears to be furthering her nursing education in that field even as her office has shed an alarming number of staffers. At this point, only two prosecutors remain in the Circuit Attorney’s Violent Crimes unit, according to a document shared with the RFT. Yesterday, the attorney tasked with presenting cases to the grand jury put in her notice.

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The tipster’s note about Gardner spending 30 hours on campus is unlikely if Gardner is enrolled in the Doctor of Nurse Practitioner program, as the university’s website says that program can be completed mostly through online course work, though it does require “1,050 or 1,125 clinical hours, depending on the specialty” as well as four in-person visits to campus.

I wonder what the judge thought if he was given that bit of info?? However, that information is likely a key reason why she decided to resign before being fired. 

By the way, NONE of the issues are her fault. Everyone else is to blame for the problems in her office and the criminals running rampant across St. Louis 

Unfortunately, her work and her resignation leave an office in a complete state of disarray, and the victims of crimes across St. Louis are left twisting in the wind because of her failures. 

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2 Comments
  • Scott says:

    Another democrat / Soros success story… The destruction of society by these traitors is a feature, not a bug..

  • GWB says:

    and ….did NOTHING
    Here’s the fundamental problem. Government has two basic, fundamental purposes in existing: enforce the laws protecting the citizens/subjects and guard from invasion. If you’re not doing those two things, then you’re an illegitimate government and should be cast out – lock, stock, and barrel – by said citizens/subjects. Most popes, prefects, kings, presidents, prime ministers, potentates and satraps throughout history have known this. Even Hitler knew he had to turn certain people into non-citizens before he could just up and away with them.

    Anyone in government not contributing to those two items should be pitched out on their ear. Anyone working against them should be pilloried, at a minimum.

    But here we encounter the deeper problem: Progressivism has turned the vast majority of the electorate into passive sheep. “That’s not who we are!” “We should let the process work through it!” “No mean tweets!” Heck no. We need to rise up like the ill-mannered curs we are as Americans and tear down the gilded facade. We need the people to return to being independently minded and strong willed. Stand up for morality, truth, and American ideals, and kick in the ho-hos anyone who dares to tell us that WE are not the masters of our country and not a bunch of red-arsed bureaucratic baboons and so-called ‘experts’.

    Don’t hope to vote these people out in some future election. Run them out of office NOW! Let them know that unless they shape up and do what’s right, you will not rest until you see them tarred and feathered and tied to the caboose of the last train out of town. Make a stink! Throw some tea in the harbor! Aim to misbehave!

    (Also, evangelize Christian morals and American ideals to your neighbors and their neighbors. We will not get our Republic back until the electorate is no longer a herd of stupid sheep bleating behind their “leaders”.)

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