The NYTimes has the story here. Justice was done, unsurprisingly, by the jury. But the prosecution of Mitchell by County Attorney Scott Tidwell was: a disgrace, a gross abuse of prosecutorial power, and a black mark on Texas criminal jurisprudence. I will have more to say about this in a later post. For now, congratulations to Nurse Mitchell and her legal defense team.
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Beau Berman of CBS7News in West Texas reports here on the day two (yesterday) testimony in Nurse Anne Mitchell’s Texas criminal trial for misuse of official information. This is a truly disgraceful prosecution. The county attorney should have declined to bring it and the court should never have allowed it to get to a jury.
The New York Times reports here on the abusive Texas state criminal prosecution of nurse Anne Mitchell for doing the right thing. Mitchell properly and lawfully reported a doctor, who had privileges at the hospital where she worked, to the Texas Medical Board. When the Board informed the doctor, he promptly told his friend, the country sheriff, who helped to engineer Mitchell’s felony prosecution. You might think that somebody with a law license, say the county attorney or D.A., would step in and prevent such nonsense. You would be wrong.