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Bumbling Nueces DA fires wrong person for release of embarrassing document she authored

Just weeks after Governor Perry appointed her Nueces County District Attorney, Anna Jimenez fired a veteran prosecutor for supposedly leaking an embarrassing, profanity-laced document Jimenez had written. But now the woman who released the document to the media says the fired prosecutor wasn't the person who gave it to her. Oops!Here's a copy of the document (pdf) in question; give it a read. I can see why the DA is pissed that it got out, but she should be more p.o.'ed at herself for being stupid and juvenile enough to create the damn thing in the first place. It's unquestionably in poor taste and actually includes her signature and bar card number, for heaven's sake!Prosecutors in the office thought it was written as a humorous spoof, which is how it reads to me...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 01, 2010 (boomark / email).