Lawyers can be some of the most self righteous clueless people on earth if they are not careful. Honing the skills of arguing both sides of an argument can make a lawyer his own worst enemy with expert skills at self deception. County Attorney Wes Hinch is a prime example.
Hinch leaves little ole Liberty a nice young man, full of potential, from a good family and heads to law school. Then after being trained in law school to be able to defend any criminal and also to be able to prosecute the same person, he comes back after many years of an unusual law career to join the ranks of public servants.
With public service in mind, Hinch works hard and fights for a tax on everyone’s groundwater and water wells across the county. He must have used his debate skills to argue himself into believing a conservative community like ours would accept this kind of bogus extra tax when they are eventually informed of its evil intentions.
Hinch evidently has argued and convinced himself “doing nothing” about the juvenile problem is the best way to keep from making parents of juvenile offenders from rallying behind any potential political opponents he may have in the future. How does anyone argue themselves into believing the other 99.9% of us would ignore his lazy inaction?
More recently, this week Wes Hinch has argued himself into believing that as County Attorney he can e-mail a private citizen and chide them for filing a criminal complaint about his personal action, inaction and failure to comply with the law for his buddy-crony officials. Does Wes Hinch realize his e-mail looks like a public official is trying to intimidate a private citizen? Has he thought about how he is sending an e-mail to a witness and this could be viewed as witness tampering?
All tricks Wes Hinch has learned from his mentor, Liberty County DA Mike Little.
MIKE and HILLARY Sitting in a Tree
Three years ago Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and local Liberty County District Attorney Mike Little had an interesting decision to make. They both made the same decision and they both should be held accountable for the consequences.
When Barack Obama became the heir apparent to lead the Democrat Party in a new and more left liberal leaning direction, Hillary chose to join his cabinet rather than wait until now to run against his wrong-headed philosophy. Mike Little had the same choice. Both chose to play supportive roles and build their own futures based on the direction Obama led the Democrat’s party.
Looking back we all can wonder what would have happened IF they had rejected rather than supported Obama. What would have happened if Hillary had remained a Senator from New York and thrown her hat in the ring to win the Democrat’s nomination for President? What would have happened if Mike Little had publicly denounced Obama and his big spending, big government and maybe even prepared to run as an independent or a Republican?
Instead, Hillary and Mike hoped that Obama’s promise that “the waters would recede and earth would heal” somehow would magically come true and that their fate would rise with the fate of their new political messiah. Instead, Hillary and Mike witnessing the waters of a bad economy receding, they are like many Americans and are climbing up a tree to try and escape the disastrous consequences of Keynesian economics and Obamacare.
The tree they have chosen as their lifeboat in a storm is obviously falling. Now the only question is do they have the unmitigated gall to turn on Obama and declare they never knew him. Will Hillary resign from his cabinet after years of loyalty? Will Mike Little try and convince Republicans he is one of us after all?
Surely not! Mike and Hillary sitting in a tree K-I-SS-ING.
When Barack Obama became the heir apparent to lead the Democrat Party in a new and more left liberal leaning direction, Hillary chose to join his cabinet rather than wait until now to run against his wrong-headed philosophy. Mike Little had the same choice. Both chose to play supportive roles and build their own futures based on the direction Obama led the Democrat’s party.
Looking back we all can wonder what would have happened IF they had rejected rather than supported Obama. What would have happened if Hillary had remained a Senator from New York and thrown her hat in the ring to win the Democrat’s nomination for President? What would have happened if Mike Little had publicly denounced Obama and his big spending, big government and maybe even prepared to run as an independent or a Republican?
Instead, Hillary and Mike hoped that Obama’s promise that “the waters would recede and earth would heal” somehow would magically come true and that their fate would rise with the fate of their new political messiah. Instead, Hillary and Mike witnessing the waters of a bad economy receding, they are like many Americans and are climbing up a tree to try and escape the disastrous consequences of Keynesian economics and Obamacare.
The tree they have chosen as their lifeboat in a storm is obviously falling. Now the only question is do they have the unmitigated gall to turn on Obama and declare they never knew him. Will Hillary resign from his cabinet after years of loyalty? Will Mike Little try and convince Republicans he is one of us after all?
Surely not! Mike and Hillary sitting in a tree K-I-SS-ING.
LITTLE HINCH BRACING FOR DEFEAT?
All through the long hot dry summer months of 2011 a twelve year old girl and twenty boys and young men and their parents and a great deal of the community of Cleveland have waited as the court dates grew near that would decide the fate of those involved in what has become known as the “Cleveland rape case”.
Regardless of what people think the outcome of this case should be, the one outcome that should be unacceptable to everyone could be the one we are all soon to hear.
If the outcome of any of the twenty is based on the “lack of evidence” or “tainted evidence”, then this case should leave a bad taste in almost everyone’s mouths. The victim will surely be dissatisfied. The victim and the accused will have been the subject of media speculation for nearly a year and the accused will have had their mug shots splattered all over the country. The taxpayers will be left wondering why money was spent on cases against anyone when there was not enough evidence to get convictions. Parents will have doled out big bucks for lawyers.
If most of 2011 has gone by and District Attorney Mike Little and County Attorney Wes Hinch plan to now deliver this kind of bombshell on any of these cases, it should rekindle one of the complaints that prosecutors are systematically dragging their feet on cases with no consideration of the cost to those who pay the bills.
Recently District Judge Mark Morefield, District Judge Chap Cain, County Court-at-Law Judge Tommy Chambers, and County Judge and Chief Executive Officer of the County Craig McNair improved the county’s practice of incarcerating people awaiting trial. Shortening the amount of time people spent in jail that were considered not dangerous has saved the county hundreds of thousands of dollars this year and untold amounts of money in the future.
Little and Hinch can be dragged into being more conservative and respectful of taxpayer money in some areas, but they still have areas of discretion, like the Cleveland rape case, that they can roll up a big bill for us to pay even if they know all along the evidence does not justify the efforts.
Let’s hope this kind of thing is not the final result.
Regardless of what people think the outcome of this case should be, the one outcome that should be unacceptable to everyone could be the one we are all soon to hear.
If the outcome of any of the twenty is based on the “lack of evidence” or “tainted evidence”, then this case should leave a bad taste in almost everyone’s mouths. The victim will surely be dissatisfied. The victim and the accused will have been the subject of media speculation for nearly a year and the accused will have had their mug shots splattered all over the country. The taxpayers will be left wondering why money was spent on cases against anyone when there was not enough evidence to get convictions. Parents will have doled out big bucks for lawyers.
If most of 2011 has gone by and District Attorney Mike Little and County Attorney Wes Hinch plan to now deliver this kind of bombshell on any of these cases, it should rekindle one of the complaints that prosecutors are systematically dragging their feet on cases with no consideration of the cost to those who pay the bills.
Recently District Judge Mark Morefield, District Judge Chap Cain, County Court-at-Law Judge Tommy Chambers, and County Judge and Chief Executive Officer of the County Craig McNair improved the county’s practice of incarcerating people awaiting trial. Shortening the amount of time people spent in jail that were considered not dangerous has saved the county hundreds of thousands of dollars this year and untold amounts of money in the future.
Little and Hinch can be dragged into being more conservative and respectful of taxpayer money in some areas, but they still have areas of discretion, like the Cleveland rape case, that they can roll up a big bill for us to pay even if they know all along the evidence does not justify the efforts.
Let’s hope this kind of thing is not the final result.
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