Comments on Advance Indiana™: South Bend Deputy Prosecutor Loses Job For Failing To Prosecute Father Who Later Killed 6-Year Old Daughter

I know that the persons responsible for letting Al...

2014-03-04T11:33:01.188-05:00

I know that the persons responsible for letting Alan Matheney out on a pass despite warnings to notify my daughter if he were ever released, resulting in her murder-- were
"kicked upstairs".

I am a parent of an abused daughter by the hands o...

2013-08-08T13:46:35.857-05:00

I am a parent of an abused daughter by the hands of her husband. A Personal Protection Order was filed and approved. It's been over a year. My daughter was sent paper's with a date and time to appear before the judge to extend, also to add her daughter 5 yrs old to the P.P.O. (which the court forgot to do in the original) My daughter gathered all of the many police reports and went before the judge who said "you and your husband are still legally married (but, separated awaiting the divorce) this is a waste of my time. You have to see the Magistrate."
Is this going to be another "error" in the system?!

Part of the problem may be a faulty search engine....

2013-06-06T07:21:46.746-05:00

Part of the problem may be a faulty search engine. A truly good search engine would pull up all hits that are close in spelling, not just one that matches exactly the entered spelling since data entry errors are probably a little too common, particularly when someone has an unusual name. Remember the FBI says it missed Tamerlan Tsarnaev's trip to Russia because someone entered the spelling of his name into the system inaccurately. I found that hard to believe since he held a permanent resident card which would could be scanned to capture key information stored on it when he departed and re-entered the country. Here the person's name is entered into the court's database manually. Having said that, if the DP knew the mother was claiming that there was an existing protective order, Dvorak is taking the position that he could have also searched using the mother's name and if he had, he would have found the active protective order. The question that should be asked is what the prosecutor's office's past record was on strictly prosecuting violation of protective order cases.

-OK, I'm not so sure on this one... The story...

2013-06-05T22:26:14.126-05:00

-OK, I'm not so sure on this one...

The story sounds like the guy made an honest mistake, and some more appropriate action would have been training (absent a history of nonfeasance).

I have to ask the tough question:

-Was this a "Frank Straub - 'I'm going to throw somebody else under the bus'" ploy to gain political favor???