A staff the size of MCOA and Juan was the only person that ever made an inappropriate comment to a female coworker. UH, I don't think so.
I've been so out-of-the-loop, I didn't even realize there had been all this drama going on and misconduct allegations from 2017 to JM's firing this month. Whoa!
The pattern of behavior I saw detailed in the various documents is grievous indeed. Aside from JM's sexual harassment of female coworkers and personnel, the allegation that he shared confidential information with his affair partner (J.W.), including 2 juror's names, so his affair partner could dig dirt on one or both of them is what may well get JM disbarred. And if that happens, he'll have earned that disbarment, IMO.
He's a smart, capable attorney, but *cheating* the system is unconscionable, especially as a prosecutor. It brings into question all cases he worked on, fair or not. His conduct is on him. He's already lost his job and if he is disbarred, he's done. No media outlet will want to work with someone who was fired for harassment of coworkers, insubordinates, and court personnel and certainly not with someone who cheated/exposed juror info to manipulate and force one or more jurors off a trial/penalty phase.
IMO, The only circus aspect of the JA trial was created by that reprehensible Snake and her DT .... her trashing of TA with her disgusting lies and falsehoods she invented as well as her dirty, nasty photos. I feel utterly repulsed and recoil in disgust at the thought of her, and truly wonder if she’s even human.
I was aware of some drama going on but had no idea it had gotten to this level. I can’t imagine JM’s behavior really being so bad as what is being alleged. I mean, why? He seems so much smarter than that. This is all such a shame and an absolute waste. Is there something political behind all this, because for some reason, just from what I’ve read so far, that’s the impression I’m getting. Like he’s been set up for some reason. I know I could be wrong, but I can’t help but sense dirty politics.
IMO If it’s all true, he deserved being fired. I don’t know what to believe. I truly doubt JM asked any.civillian for help during the trial. True or not, I don’t feel it will affect her appeal but it’s too bad he wasn’t just put on leave until the denial of her bull&%\§ laden appeal. The felonious murderer and her barnacles (supporters) will forever claim Arias didn’t get a fair trial because of JM. I hate that these accusations give them ammunition no matter how baseless and invalid their arguments are.
This isn't a hoax or a conspiracy against JM. He got fired because the investigation that was conducted by his employer proved the numerous allegations made against him over many years, going all the way back to 1991.
I understand his fans are upset and want to believe he couldn't perpetuate these behaviors, but there's a history there. He was put on an official warning back in 1991. There's documentation.
I do believe he told his mistress the juror's name; there are thousands of txt messages over the 3 or so years they were involved. And, allegedly he was also involved with another fame-seeker, media ingenue, K.W. in 2015.
Excellent post, casesensitive. ITA. Prosecutor JM was battling against what he absolutely knew was a defense based on nothing but lies, falsehoods, and fairytales. He mounted his full defense with passion... based on his belief in right and wrong, and to the best of his ability.
Which leads me to strongly question what is going on with these recent legal proceedings against him. I truly hope the system is fair and comes to a fair and just conclusion.
Where to start? Perhaps riffing off Midnight Rambler's observation, that (sarcasm -my own- alert) of the HUNDREDS of prosecutors who work at MCAO, the brand new County Attorney has magically found and eliminated the only prosecutor in the office who is allegedly guilty of such extensive sexual harassment that she can't find a place in the building for him in which law clerks won't quiver in fear at his approach.
Or perhaps to begin with a response to Madeline's assertion that there is "documentation" of JM's alleged sexual harassment dating back to 1991, so a decades long history of bad behavior that "fans" of JM are unwilling to acknowledge.
I'm not going to take the time to dig up what I've posted before, which was based on JM's actual job performance reviews (if you want actual facts about his HR record at MCAO, it's inexcusably available to the public. LOOK IT UP).
Suffice it to say it is verifiably and factually untrue that JM had a decades long history of sexual harassment at MCAO. In THIRTY YEARS of working there, up until the rabidly unethical Karen Clark set out to destroy him, JM's file noted all of two (2) complaints related to "sexual harassment." The first was a complaint - NOT lodged by any female employees- that legal secretaries were hanging out in his office too much, which impeded their productivity.
The second complaint, as written up by his supervisor, was that JM had said something to a (one)female employee that the supervisor was sure wasn't intended to be offensive in any way, but that JM needed to be aware what he said could be taken the wrong way. That is it. All of it.
As for JM leaking the names of 2 jurors to his "mistress." Say what? The allegation is about one juror, not 2, and the fact Tammy Rose and Jennifer Wood exchanged thousands of text messages is evidence of zip nada nothing, much less of the incredibly serious accusation that JM leaked the name of a sitting juror.
And BTW, the only "evidence" that JM was involved with Wood is based on what Wood has claimed. After, it must be said, she explicitly denied any such involvement to the Bar during the first round of it's investigation. And after, it can also be said, Karen Clark, in her bar complaint, went to great lengths to depict Wood as a pathological liar who was obsessed with JM and who maliciously stalked and threatened on SM anyone she believed had an interest in JM or who crossed her.
Myself, dismiss me as a JM " fan" if you will, I believe JM's word over Wood's, hands down and with no hesitation whatsoever.
I'm also convinced, based in part on having read a great deal over many years about the (often corrupt) politics of AZ's legal community, that the only "cause" for which JM was fired was to advance the political future of the new and unelected Maricopa County Attorney, and to deflect the equally politically motivated attacks on JM's old boss and newest AZ Supreme Court Justice, Bill Montgomery.
The fact of the matter is (look this up too), JM absolutely did NOT sexually harass any MCAO employee after he was disciplined by Montgomery, which Montgomery did for the first and only time AFTER the Bar took up Karen the Unethical's bar complaint again.
JM's new and unelected boss based her decision to fire him, so she said, on the fact that BACK IN 2018 JM had objected to how Montgomery's discipline had affected his job performance review- and salary.
Two years later, with no other complaints, and
after 30 years of delivering wins for MCAO, and after being given glowing, the best of the best job reviews for every one of those years up until after the butcherer's trial and Karen Clark, to be fired even before he has had the chance to defend himself against Clark's bar complaints?
Does it get any more political than that? Or, imo at least, any more contemptible?
,to please take the very best of care of yourselves and those you love. These are such scary times! I'll be praying the best I know how that all of you -all of us- make it to the other side of this altogether intact and ok. Hugs all around.
