Kim Gardner and her office has been disqualified and removed by Judge Clark as the prosecutor in the Mark McCloskey case because her political fund-raising emails gave the appearance “that she initiated a criminal prosecution for political purposes.”
It is expected that Judge Stelzer will follow suit in the Patricia McCloskey case. My educated guess is that once the case is transferred to a prosecutor from a different jurisdiction, it will be reviewed, and a dismissal will follow.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch recently ran an editorial entitled “Another self-inflicted wound undermines Gardner’s reform agenda” citing this ruling.
The editorial essentially lists some of Ms. Gardner’s more significant and expensive “grandstanding sideshows and time-consuming distractions” (Greitens, the KKK lawsuit, almost her entire staff leaving, etc.). It calls on Ms. Gardner to “better prepared and a more effective advocate for crime victims.”
Frankly, that’s not going to happen. We are only going to get more of the same. The past four years have only demonstrated that she is incompetent.
