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[clueliss]

Lest the Missouri Dumpster fire be forgotten:  

http://krcgtv.com/news/local/forensic-exam-underway-on-gov-greitens-cellphone

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Forensic exam underway on Gov. Greitens' cellphone

by The Associated Press

Tuesday, May 8th 2018

A forensic examiner was working on Governor Eric Greitens' cell phone Tuesday in a locked courtroom with yellow paper taped over the windows. (File)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A forensic examiner in St. Louis is extracting data from the cellphone of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, days before the governor goes to trial on a felony invasion of privacy charge.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the examiner was working Tuesday in a locked courtroom with yellow paper taped over the windows.

An investigator for the St. Louis circuit attorney's office had cited what he believed was suspicious activity in a Gmail account after an investigation of Greitens was announced earlier this year.

Defense lawyers on Monday filed a motion to quash a sealed search warrant and stop any forensic exam of the phone.

Greitens is accused of taking an unauthorized photo of a woman who was at least partially nude. He's admitted having an extramarital affair with her in 2015.

 

[47of74]

On 5/4/2018 at 8:23 AM, CTRLZero said:

What a raging dumpster fire.  Hope your prayer closet is upwind!

Yeah, Iowa is upwind of that dumpster fire but unfortunately we have one all of our own to contend with.  Hopefully we'll be able to put it out come November. 

[clueliss]

Jury Selection today in the Greitens Invasion of Privacy case.

 

[clueliss]

And we're trying to stop the forensic examination of Greiten's cell phone.  

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article210932334.html

But this might be my favorite bit:

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Defense attorney Jim Bennett also asked the judge to do something about #MeToo protesters on the plaza near the Civil Courts building. Bennett said the protesters could interfere with potential jurors’ opinions and knowledge of the case.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I'm glad she vetoed the gun bill, but the adoption discrimination is awful: "Oklahoma’s governor angers the NRA and gay rights groups — on the same day"

Spoiler

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) united gun and LGBTQ advocates on Friday, in a sense.

LGBTQ rights groups say a bill she signed Friday legalizes discrimination against families hoping to adopt by allowing faith-based agencies to deny placing children with people they believe violate their religious views, such as same-sex couples.

And she vetoed a bill that would have struck down a requirement of a training course before lawfully carrying a handgun in public, drawing opposition from the National Rifle Association — also on Friday.

Fallin defended the adoption regulation bill in a statement, saying the new law “does not ban same-sex adoption or foster care in Oklahoma.” She noted her state joins six others that have passed similar laws. It goes into effect Nov. 1.

Indeed, the law does not specify or single out same-sex couples.

But gay rights groups have said the bill in effect allows agencies partially funded by tax dollars to turn away prospective parents while nearly a half-million children nationwide await being placed in a home.

“Oklahoma has now joined a small group of states that have broken the cardinal rule of child welfare — that the needs of children should come first,” said the Rev. Stan J. Sloan, the chief executive of the LGTBQ rights advocacy group Family Equality Council.

The law also blunts the ability of LGBTQ family members to take in related children if a faith-based group declines their request, the group’s policy director, Denise Brogan-Kator, said.

“We think these types of laws are harmful to youth in care,” she told The Washington Post on Saturday, adding that removing potential candidates from an already overtasked foster system would further block children from going to permanent homes.

Fallin’s spokesman Michael McNutt said he was unable to immediately comment Saturday, citing possible litigation against the law as a potentially limiting factor.

The Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA that focuses on gender identity and policy, concluded in 2013 that same-sex couples were four times more likely to raise adopted children than different-sex couples.

Brogan-Kator said state Senate Majority Leader Greg Treat (R), who wrote the bill, justified the law on the Senate floor earlier this month by saying “same-sex marriage” violated the belief of some faith-based groups. Treat did immediately return a request for comment.

Nearly 80 state faith-based leaders and organizations asked Fallin to veto the bill in a Thursday letter.

“We celebrate the important work of so many faith-based child welfare agencies that support foster youth. We are also deeply committed to religious freedom, but that freedom doesn’t give anyone the right to impose their beliefs on others or to put children in harm’s way,” stated the letter, which was also signed by 41 national religion-based groups.

Another LGBTQ advocacy group, Freedom Oklahoma, said it plans to sue the state because it believes the new measure violates the constitutional laws of equal protection and separation of church and state.

“They have been playing politics with the lives of children all year,” chief executive Troy Stevenson told The Post, referring to recently widespread teacher protests and walkouts that rocked the state and others.

Oklahoma’s Catholic bishops championed the law, saying it would “bring more adoption services to the state and allow crucial faith-based agencies to continue their decades-long tradition of caring for Oklahoma’s most vulnerable children.”

And then, if that wasn’t enough controversy, Fallin’s action on guns stirred the NRA.

The governor defended that move, too, saying she has been a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights.

“Oklahomans believe that law-abiding individuals should be able to defend themselves. I believe the firearms requirement we current have in state law are few and reasonable,” she said, adding the bill would also reduce the level of background checks necessary to purchase a firearm and make it difficult for law enforcement to determine who is permitted to carry guns.

Chris W. Cox, the head of the NRA’s lobbying arm, was critical of the move — a rare rollback of broadening gun laws in a conservative state. He pointed out she said she would support a similar measure when she ran for reelection.

“Make no mistake, this temporary setback will be rectified when Oklahoma residents elect a new, and genuinely pro-Second Amendment governor,” Cox said.

Fallin is nearing the end of her second four-year term and cannot run for reelection this year.

At least one law enforcement agency supported Fallin’s veto.

“Fallin heard the public-safety concerns created by [the bill], namely a lack of training requirement, reduced level of background checks, and officer safety issues, and acted accordingly in vetoing the bill,” the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Friday, local media reported.

 

[clueliss]

Greitens invasion of privacy suit:

Prosecutors have stopped looking for photos (and haven't been able to find anything).  Day 3 of Jury selection.  

http://www.komu.com/news/greitens-lawyer-says-prosecutors-have-stopped-photo-search

[clueliss]

They dropped the invasion of privacy charges against Greitens (which after the phone investigation issue doesn't surprise me).  The KC Star however thinks all is still a problem for the Governor.  

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article211141514.html

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Why the dropped invasion of privacy charge is bad news for Gov. Eric Greitens

By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board

May 14, 2018 07:46 PM

Updated 11 hours 19 minutes ago

It’s good news for all of Missouri — with the exception of Gov. Eric Greitens — that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner dropped the felony invasion of privacy charge against him Monday.

After the defense called Gardner as a witness, she couldn’t continue, and issued a furious statement decrying the governor’s “scorched-earth legal and media strategy” and attacks on “the intentions, character and integrity of every person involved in investigating the Governor’s behavior.” No doubt about that.

But the prosecutor never located the semi-naked photo of his former hairdresser that Greitens stood accused of taking and threatening to use against her. Without it, Gardner would have had a hard time proving his guilt on that particular charge. Then, the governor’s defenders would have argued that he’d been exonerated of all wrongdoing, and thus should keep his job.

No, no and no. Gardner has said that a special prosecutor or one of her deputies may refile the charge. And it’s possible that a special prosecutor could now file the sexual assault case that we’ve wondered why she didn’t bring instead. Apparently, she didn’t yet have evidence about the alleged assault when she filed the invasion of privacy case, based largely on a secretly taped conversation between the victim and her then-husband.

Prosecutors also have what’s always been considered a better case against Greitens on accusations that he stole a donor list from the charity he started, The Mission Continues, and illegally used it to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign. He’s also been accused of knowingly lying on a campaign report and of misusing for political purposes a grant he was supposed to use to research a book on his “hard-won wisdom.”

On Friday, a special session on Greitens’ possible impeachment is set to begin, and it should go forward as planned. After the invasion of privacy case was dropped, Senate GOP leaders said in a strong statement that “the governor has lost the moral authority and the ability to lead the state going forward, and we reaffirm our call that he resign immediately.” When the House committee is ready, said Senate Majority Leader Mike Kehoe, “they will present what they found to the full House and they will make a decision based on the facts, and not from what you may or may not be seeing in St. Louis.”

As Republican strategist Gregg Keller said on Monday, “Eric Greitens has committed as many as a dozen impeachable offenses. All of his defenders are going to say this is a great day for him, but it’s the opposite, because now Kim Gardner has a case she can win.”

The governor himself proclaimed the dropped charges “a great victory” and said “I’ve emerged from it a changed man,” though one who still insists he did nothing criminal. “In time comes the truth,” he said, and let’s hope that time is soon.

Impeachment doesn’t require a guilty verdict, but a finding of “misconduct, habitual drunkenness, willful neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpitude or oppression in office.” Moral turpitude, did somebody say? It’s encouraging that lawmakers in both parties know that unlike Gardner, they must proceed carefully.

 

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http://www.abc17news.com/news/greitens-attorney-files-police-report-against-circuit-attorneys-offices-investigator-for-perjury/742137944

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Greitens' attorney files police report against Circuit Attorney's Office's investigator for perjury

Gov. Eric Greitens leaves the St. Louis Civil Courts building on Monday after prosecutors dropped the felony invasion of privacy case against him.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Gov. Greitens' attorney released a statement on Tuesday about filing a police report with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department against the lead investigator for the Circuit Attorney's Office for perjury.

This comes a day after the invasion of privacy charge against the governor was dropped.

You can read the entire statement below:

“Today, we will be filing a police report with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department regarding the perjury committed by the lead investigator for the Circuit Attorney’s Office in the case against Governor Greitens.

That case collapsed yesterday and was dismissed. It was dismissed because there was no evidence of any crime. But the misconduct in this case should be addressed.

That includes the lead investigator lying about his methods and the evidence he collected. In fact, that lead investigator, William Tisaby, refused to testify in a deposition about his perjury and misbehavior in the case, and he pleaded the fifth in response to over 50 questions.

Our defense team has over 100 years of experience combined, and we have never seen such outrageous misconduct. In addition to perjury, that includes $100,000 in secret cash payments for a witness or witnesses, payments that were concealed from our defense team by the Circuit Attorney’s Office. And if that weren't enough, the Circuit Attorney and William Tisaby also met a number of times in secret with a major witness in the case. By law, both the Circuit Attorney and William Tisaby were required to testify about what was said and done in those secret meetings. Both refused to do so.

This misconduct must be investigated. I have a lot of confidence in the St Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and I am sure they will get to the bottom of the misdeeds and illegal activity in this case.”

So now Greitens camp is filing perjury charges against the lead investigator of the Circuit Attorney's Office (because this whole debacle just couldn't get any weirder - right?)

[clueliss]

Update from the MO-Leg special session.

 

[47of74]

Ugh, Kimmy can't resist the idea of free money if it benefits Republicans

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Gov. Kim Reynolds says it was an "appropriate decision" for Iowa Republicans to accept a $522,000 donation from a disgraced former lawmaker.

Reynolds told reporters Wednesday she was "fine" with the Republican Party of Iowa accepting a March 26 contribution from former Iowa Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix. The Shell Rock Republican resigned two weeks earlier after video surfaced showing him kissing a Statehouse lobbyist who wasn't his wife.

Jesus how corrupt can she get?

[Cartmann99]

27 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

Jesus how corrupt can she get?

Is that a challenge?

[fraurosena]

Fingers crossed! 

 

[clueliss]

Greiten's legal team grilled women on their swimsuit preferences (among other things)

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article211744254.html

On and MO-Leg has spent a couple of days reading stuff out loud.  

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

Fingers crossed! 

 

And it has been what around 500+ years since the first white illegal immigrants showed up?

ETA: Oh wait, Idaho? This is going to get ugly. I knew (no longer friends with) a woman who is  Puerto Rican, married a Jewish guy who moved to Idaho last year. Hard core TD. Yea, they moved because Florida was to liberal for them. 

Edited May 23, 2018 by onekidanddone

[Howl]

Texas Gov Greg Abbott is already in his happy place thinking about defeating Lupe Valdez, but if the sleeping giant of the Hispanic vote wakes up, he may be out of a job. 

I was in SE Texas for a few days, in a household that has Direct TV.  Dan Patrick, the Texas Lieutenant Governor, got his start on radio in Houston and I was more than a little surprised to found out that his radio show is still going and is all over the TV schedule.  To clarify, like numerous radio people, it's just a TV camera on the host as they pontificate and take calls.   For some crazy reason, I assumed that someone holding the second highest position in the state would drop his radio show to attend to the state's business, but no.  But in its way, it's genius.  You get to flog your voters on a daily basis with all your BS. 

 

[clueliss]

The FBI has now been briefed regarding Greitens and potential campaign finance issues (and sexual misconduct)

 

http://www.komu.com/news/the-latest-fbi-briefed-on-allegations-against-greitens

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The Latest: FBI briefed on allegations against Greitens

Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:31:00 AM CDT in News

By: The Associated Press

 

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JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The Latest on the investigation of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (all times local):

11:10 a.m.

Federal investigators have been briefed on allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations by Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.

During a legislative hearing Thursday, chairman Rep. Jay Barnes says he spoke to the FBI this year about the testimony of a former Greitens' campaign aide who described attempts to conceal donors to Greitens' campaign.

At Thursday's hearing, attorney Al Watkins said he also provided information to the FBI. Watkins said that in early 2017 he gave the FBI an audio recording that a man made in which his wife described a sexual encounter with Greitens in March 2015.

Watkins said he also provided the FBI photos of cash he received in January 2018 from The Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn related to the audio recording.

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10:45 a.m.

A lawyer says he gave a recording of a woman detailing an extramarital affair with Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to the FBI.

Attorney Al Watkins on Thursday told a Missouri House legislative committee investigating Greitens that he provided the recording to authorities in January or February 2017.

A spokeswoman for the FBI declined to say if Greitens is under investigation.

Watkins represents the ex-husband of the woman Greitens said he had an affair with in 2015, before his election. The ex-husband secretly recorded a conversation with his then-wife, during which she described a sexual encounter with Greitens.

Greitens was indicted for alleged felony invasion of privacy related to that encounter. The woman said Greitens took an at least partially nude photo of her and threatened to release it if she spoke about their encounter. The St. Louis prosecutor dropped the case last week, although she referred it to a special prosecutor for consideration.

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10:20 a.m.

An attorney for the ex-husband of a woman who had an affair with Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says he was paid $100,000 cash that he was told originated from a wealthy out-of-state Republican.

Lawyer Al Watkins testified Thursday to a legislative investigatory committee that The Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn provided the cash in January 2017.

The payments occurred as Watkins was working with other media to publicize an audio recording the husband made in which his wife described a sexual encounter with Greitens.

Faughn testified Wednesday that he paid the money to purchase the recording but declined to say how he got the money.

Watkins testified that Faughn implied it was to help cover the husband's legal fees and hopefully to help provide a soft landing for the man.

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10 a.m.

The chairman of a special legislative committee investigating Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says it is "disgusting" that defense lawyers asked a woman involved in a 2015 affair with Greitens if she sent photos to a porn site.

The committee is investigating allegations related to the affair that took place before Greitens was elected, including allegations that he took a partially nude photo of the woman during an encounter in the basement of his St. Louis home in March 2015. The Legislature is meeting in special session to consider impeachment of the Republican governor.

On Wednesday, the committee reviewed questioning of the woman by Greitens' lawyers about photos on a porn site. The woman said she never uploaded photos to a porn site, and the committee said the photos were clearly not her.

Chairman Jay Barnes, a Republican, called the questioning "disgusting."

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8:40 a.m.

Attorneys for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens want lawmakers investigating the governor to issue a variety of subpoenas to probe more deeply into the source of a cash payment related to sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Greitens' attorneys said in a letter to lawmakers that a key question remains unanswered after The Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn testified Wednesday.

Faughn said he paid $120,000 cash to a lawyer representing the ex-husband of a woman who had an affair with Greitens, but he declined to say how he got the money. Faughn said most of the money was to purchase an audio recording the man made of his wife describing a sexual encounter with Greitens.

Greitens' attorneys want subpoenas served to Faughn and several others to try to reveal the money source.

 

[clueliss]

My Twitter and Facebook feeds are blowing up.  Greitens announced his resignation effective Friday, June 1at 5pm.

[clueliss]

Missouri governor to step down amid sex, fundraising scandals - Reuters https://apple.news/A-c0ScIeVRsS2hfhnSZU_fA

[onekidanddone]

23 minutes ago, clueliss said:

Missouri governor to step down amid sex, fundraising scandals - Reuters https://apple.news/A-c0ScIeVRsS2hfhnSZU_fA

My cynical self says....He will land on his feet on  FoxSpews. Or, like the governor of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. But until then, I send him  my very best Nelson Mutnz. HA HA.

[47of74]

On 5/23/2018 at 3:30 PM, Cartmann99 said:

Is that a challenge?

Good point.  Kimmy's gotta take it to the next level if she wants to bat in the same league as Greitens, Abbot, Scott, LePage, etc etc...

 

[clueliss]

 

[clueliss]

Just because he's resigned, doesn't make the legal woes go away entirely.  A judge says his non profit needs to hand over records.

 

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article212279384.html

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House says Greitens’ nonprofit must comply with judge’s order and turn over records

BY JASON HANCOCK

jhancock@kcstar.com

May 31, 2018 03:38 PM

Updated 18 minutes ago

JEFFERSON CITY 

Gov. Eric Greitens' dark-money nonprofit may still be forced to turn over documents lawmakers believe might demonstrate efforts to illegally circumvent the state's campaign disclosure laws.

On Tuesday, a Cole County judge ordered Greitens' nonprofit — A New Missouri Inc. — to abide by a subpoena issued by the Missouri House and turn over communications and documents showing potential coordination among the nonprofit, the governor and the governor's campaign committee.

A few hours later, Greitens announced he would resign from office effective 5 p.m. Friday, leaving the question of whether A New Missouri would still have to comply with the judge's order.

Catherine Hanaway, a former House speaker who is representing A New Missouri, told The Star she had "reached out to House counsel to see whether they will dismiss their court case. I have not heard a response."
 

In a statement to The Star Thursday afternoon, a spokesman for the Missouri House said A New Missouri must still turn over the required documents by Friday, as ordered by Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem.

"The (investigative) committee expects production in accordance with the court's order," the statement said.

House Speaker Todd Richardson, R-Poplar Bluff, said earlier this week that it was unclear whether the subpoena can be enforced after Greitens resigns, noting "the House’s jurisdiction over those matters will go away at some point with the governor’s announcement."

The documents, if they are produced, would be the first window into the secretive dark-money operation Greitens' political allies established in February 2017.
 

A New Missouri Inc. was created by Greitens' campaign treasurer and his campaign attorney, and run by Austin Chambers, the governor’s senior political adviser. It shares headquarters and some staff with Greitens' campaign committee, Greitens for Missouri.

The building it's housed in was purchased shortly before A New Missouri was created by one of Greitens' biggest donors.

Because it's a nonprofit, A New Missouri is not required to disclose its donors or abide by the state's campaign contribution limits.

In the days leading up to Greitens' decision to resign, sources with knowledge of the nonprofit told The Star that A New Missouri’s donors were panicking over the prospect that the House subpoena could reveal their identities.

The judge's order ultimately allowed for A New Missouri to redact information from the documents that pertain to identities of those who contributed, but the fear among the donors remained.

GOP leaders had been getting pressure to continue the probe despite Greitens’ resignation, including from their own members.

House Budget Chairman Scott Fitzpatrick, R-Shell Knob, released a statement responding to Greitens' decision to quit that called for the House to investigate "the potentially illegal fund-raising practices and activity of the A New Missouri organization…”

That call was joined Thursday by state Auditor Nicole Galloway, a Democrat, who said in a letter to House and Senate leaders that Greitens' resignation shouldn't deprive Missourians "of the right to know how dark money and special interests are secretly influencing their government. This is too important to the future of our state and to the integrity of public service to be swept under the rug."

Greitens’ dark money also could end up as part of a lawsuit in Cole County court alleging that he and his staff conspired to circumvent Missouri’s open records laws by using Confide, an app that deletes a text after it's been read.

Mark Pedroli, one of two St. Louis attorneys who sued the governor’s office in late December over its use of Confide, said Thursday that dark money and secret communications networks “go hand-in-hand.”

“We will take the Confide investigation wherever the facts lead it,” Pedroli said, “whether that's A New Missouri or other dark-money groups. The people of this state are entitled to answers. We're not shutting down this investigation, that you can be sure."

Greitens has refused to answer questions from Pedroli about whether he ever used Confide to communicate with anyone associated with A New Missouri.

Greitens’ reliance on anonymous campaign cash has been a source of controversy since the beginning of his campaign.

A former campaign staffer testified under oath to the attorney general and House investigative committee that the governor's campaign was discussing a strategy to conceal the identity of its donors from the beginning.

During the 2016 campaign, Greitens' campaign benefited from $6 million worth of spending that was routed through nonprofits and into federal political action committees to hide where the money actually came from.

Greitens is also accused of using shell companies to funnel money into his campaign while concealing the original source of the money.

Since it was founded, A New Missouri has faced an almost constant stream of accusations of corruption.

Most recently, A New Missouri was accused of being a conduit for money to fight off a union-backed effort to repeal Missouri's right-to-work law. The nonprofit donated $1.2 million to a PAC that failed at its task of putting a pro-right-to-work initiative petition on the ballot this year.

Most of the PAC's money went to political allies of the governor.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

This is an example of how a pardon should be -- meaning a regular person, not a "celebrity", who was convicted in error. Sadly, Dumpy wouldn't care: "Va. governor pardons woman convicted of disposing of stillborn fetus"

Spoiler

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued his first pardon Friday, striking the conviction of a woman who was convicted of a crime after disposing of her stillborn fetus.

Katherine Dellis, 26, of Rocky Mount, Va., was found guilty in 2016 of concealing a dead body for throwing the fetus in the trash after having a miscarriage. She was sentenced to five months in jail.

Dellis’s conviction was decried by supporters of abortion and women’s rights and cheered by those who believe in affording greater rights to unborn children.

The treatment of fetal remains has been a major front in the abortion debate in recent years, although Dellis’s case did not involve an abortion.

Ofirah Yheskel, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Northam (D) made his decision after the state’s attorney general concluded Dellis should not have been prosecuted.

“Governor Northam agreed with the conclusion of the Attorney General and saw fit to pardon Ms. Ellis,” Yheskel wrote in an e-mail.

Dellis and her attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Friday afternoon.

But Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, applauded Northam’s move.

“I’m really excited for her,” Keene said of Dellis. “I think the governor reacted quickly to what we would describe as a terrible injustice.”

Abortion opponents did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Earlier this week, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) issued an advisory opinion that the law Dellis was convicted of breaking does not apply to stillborn fetuses. Northam had requested the review.

The move was a reversal for Herring’s office, which had submitted a brief arguing for Dellis’s conviction to be upheld by the Virginia’s Court of Appeals. The court upheld the conviction in April.

Herring has said that his office misstepped in the case. In a statement, he said, “Virginia law does not criminalize women who have a miscarriage.”

His office said the case had not been brought to Herring’s attention at the time of the appeal.

According to court papers, Dellis’s placenta separated from the wall of her womb in February 2016, triggering a miscarriage. Dellis passed out in her bathroom and awoke to find the stillborn fetus on the bathroom floor next to her.

Dellis cut the umbilical cord, wrapped the fetus in a bathmat and disposed of it in a garbage can, according to the court papers. She eventually sought medical care, and a doctor alerted authorities.

The remains were found in a dumpster, and a medical examiner performed an autopsy. It concluded the fetus was 30 to 32 weeks old.

A fetus of that age can be viable with the right care, but the examiner found that the fetus’s lungs had never been exposed to air and that it had died in the womb up to three days before the miscarriage.

Dellis was charged in Franklin County with concealing a dead body and eventually convicted.

She appealed her conviction on the grounds that the fetus “was never alive,” so “it cannot be dead,” but the appellate court rejected that argument. She did not appeal the case further.

While I don't agree with how she handled the remains, it wasn't a criminal situation.

[AmazonGrace]

Don't do as I do... 

 

[clueliss]

Because not turning over the data a judge is requesting is always such a good idea (especially when you've already had to resign)