This just in: It's okay to arrest newspaper owners under the cover of night.
And it's perfectly ethical for the county attorney to appoint the sheriff's lawyer as a special "independent" prosecutor in a case where the sheriff is the "victim."
And if that "independent" prosecutor's conflicts are so glaring that he quickly gets out of control, well, that's not the county attorney's fault!
You can do all this in Arizona, in fact, and face no consequences.
In other words: Maricopa Cou
Last year, prosecutors working for Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas angrily accused Superior Court Judge Timothy Ryan of "a persistent pattern of conduct that indicates bias and prejudice" against his office -- and demanded that he be removed from all criminal cases.
That attempt failed.
Yesterday, the office impugned the judge again, this time telling reporters at multiple Valley news outlets that Judge Ryan had sentenced a high school coach, guilty of sexual conduct with a mi
