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The Reluctant Prosecutor

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That's the title of a profile of Texas District Attorney Randy Reynolds in the latest Texas Monthly.  It's written by Nate Blakeslee.  LINK  Here's the introduction:?There are some men in this world,? Harper Lee wrote in To Kill a Mockingbird, ?who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us.? And there are some who were not. Among this latter group is Randy Reynolds, who for the past dozen years has held the unpleasant job of district attorney for the hardscrabble 143rd Judicial District, which covers the rural West Texas counties of Ward, Reeves, and Loving. During Reynolds?s tenure, peace officers in the 143rd have brought hundreds of cases of drug trafficking, theft, assault, robbery, and sundry other felonies to the district attorney?s office for prosecution, and Reynolds, exercising his discretion as the people?s representative, has declined to prosecute the vast majority of them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).