A Clackamas County prosecutor is one of the swift boat liers.

[Nambe]

He looks like a bad man to me. He's on the right.


The picture links to the KGW article.

[Ducks In A Row]

1. what kind of prosecutor passes hearsay as fact?

His cases need to be looked at closely.

[depakid]

2. What's worse- he used it in a affidavit-

I'm looking into some of the ethics issues involved here- at the very least, he's going to take some heat from his boss- who may be publicly supporting him but who I'm pretty sure is none to pleased privately with this guy's behavior. His partisanship and questionable honesty affects his ability to try cases.

If I find anything at all substantive, I'm going to write a complaint to the state Bar.

[Clown_King]

3. My email response - NOT - from Clackamas DA

Just thought I'd share with you the letter I wrote to DA Foote at the Clackamas County DA's office regard the false affidavit by Alfred French:



Dear Mr. Foote:

I am writing to you in response to the legal affidavit that Alfred French, a senior deputy district attorney in your office, signed attested to his claim in the Swift boat ad that "I served with John Kerry. . . . He is lying about his record." I find this especially disturbing when he confesses in the Oregonian that he was relying on the accounts of three other veterans when he said Kerry lied.


I am not an attorney, but doesn't this behavior violate the rules of professional conduct of your profession? French signed an affidavit wherein he did not reveal that his statements were not his own personal knowledge, but rather that they were made based on what he had been told by others. In my opinion, this appears as if it was done to knowingly conceal his lack of personal knowledge and to just smear John Kerry.

Mr. French's act was not only misleading, but a conscious engagement in misleading conduct against John Kerry.

Unlike other emails you might be receiving from around the country, I am a resident of Clackamas county here in Oregon. I could, feasibly, be personally impacted by this type of misleading conduct (where does it begin/end?) if I was ever to appear in court. Mr. French's actions don't inspire much faith in the Clackamas DA at this time.

The response I got from my email is as follows:

X-Originating-IP: <198.XXX.132.XXX>
From: Web Address for District Attorney
<[e-mail]>
To: XXXXXXXXXXX <[e-mail]>
Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: French Affidavit
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:12:07 -0700
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)


Thank you for contacting the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office.
This office will no longer be responding to messages regarding Al French.
However, all messages pertaining to regular business will be promptly
addressed. Thank you.


I wonder if this means they are just trying to ignore it or perhaps they have been hit hard with the email complaints. Don't know. Just thought I'd share this with all of you.