Prosecutor: Arpaio gave up appeal right in accepting pardon

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Updated 5:30 pm CDT, Wednesday, April 24, 2019



Photo: Matt York, AP
FILE - In this May 22, 2018 file photo, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks during a campaign event in Phoenix. A special prosecutor appointed to defend a ruling that refused to erase Arpaio's criminal record says the lawman gave up his right to appeal his contempt of court conviction when he accepted a pardon from President Donald Trump.


PHOENIX (AP) — A special prosecutor appointed to defend a ruling that refused to erase former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal record says the lawman gave up his right to appeal his contempt of court conviction when he accepted a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Christopher Caldwell said in a filing Monday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that pardons moot any punishments that a person convicted of a crime might face, but they don't erase judgments made by courts in those cases.

If Arpaio wanted to challenge his misdemeanor conviction for disobeying a 2011 court order to stop his immigration patrols, then he should have rejected the pardon and taken his chances in an appeals court, Caldwell wrote.

"This appeal is Arpaio's last move to avoid being held accountable — even just on paper — for repeatedly violating Maricopa County residents' civil rights and willfully (and publicly) defying judicial attempts to protect them," Caldwell wrote. "This court should not indulge Arpaio's desire to operate above the law by vacating the order confirming that he broke it."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutor-Arpaio-gave-up-appeal-right-in-13792960.php

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To mootness.


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[Brother Buzz]

1. An occasional dose of Schadenfreude is good for the soul

[marble falls]

2. People who are innocent don't need pardons. Arpiao is a disaster to Maricopa County ...

whatever he saved the county with his mean spirited tent jail, he lost 10 times over in in lawsuits the county paid out over him and his policies.

He deserves prison for refusing to investigate over 400 allegations of sex crimes against children because he claimed they were undocumented and not worth protecting.