TX Citizen 7.25.13

7/27/2019 TX Citizen 7.25.13

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VOLUME TWO

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07 .25 .13

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ThankyouforcallingGuadalupeCounty!Howcanwesay"Yes"toyoutoday? FirstWord,Page3

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Have it Yalls Way, inGuadalupe County

In a world where prompt,personal service is hard to

come by, one organizationstands out as a glittering

exception in a society that

increasingly resists treating the

customer right. That organization is

none other than our own Guadalupe County.

In two very high-prole cases, the

employees o Guadalupe County stepped

up and said Yes! where others would havealmost certainly reacted with a knee-jerk No.

Were o course talking about the now-dropped

aggravated perjury case against Leonidas-

Mark-Patrick-Jason-Moore-McGonigal and theocer-involved shooting o Jonas Alonzo.

Suicide by CopLate last month, two Guadalupe County SherisDeputies were called out to deal with a knie-

wielding, suicidal 16 year-old, who, according

to press accounts o the Deputys dash-cam

video, charged the cops, and demanded to

be shot and killed. The Deputies did what any

reasonable person trained in disarming anddealing with violent, unpredictable people

would do they shot and killed him.

Granted, thats what I would do too, but

as Ive said beore in this very column, I would

make a horrible cop or just that reason. In any

case, they gave Jonas Alonzo exactly what hewas asking or, when he asked or it. That, my

riends, is service.

At rst I thought the two shots to the head

were kind o permanent. Ater all, the kid

might have changed his mind about the whole

thing later. They could have just tasered himuntil he was in a dierent rame o mind. But

there are two problems with that solution:

1) Tasers cost something like $25 to

reload, while bullets are well under a buck

apiece, and urthermore

2) Guadalupe County Sheris Deputiesdont carry tasers.

That makes sense.

Just so you know, when NBPD shows up

to a suicide call, they send a whole pack o

cops, plus an ambulance. Theyre super nice,

too. (Its not important how I know this.) Withthat kind o manpower, theyve got lots o non-

lethal options open to them, which they can

then oer the suicidal person instead o instanthot death. And i things do go o the rails,

theyve got tasers, reload cost be damned.

Calling NBPD or a 5150 is like

dealing with that overly-helpul

salesman at the paint store, you

know, the guy that wants tomake sure youre happy with

that Twilight Meadow semi-

gloss and takes two hours to do

it. Guadalupe County Deputies

assume youre making an inormed

decision rom the beginning and are moreabout speed o delivery. Theres no question that

they both oer top-notch service, but they come

rom dierent schools o thought, to be sure.

In any case, the two unidentiedGuadalupe County Deputies that red intoAlonzos head, chest and ankle have been

cleared o any wrongdoing in the case. Theyll

be back at work soon, i they arent already,

as the Guadalupe County Grand Jury reused

to indict either o them.Look, were not saying the Deputies

murdered that kid, or that he didnt have it

coming. All were saying is even the LAPDs most

notorious boot-and-nightstick enthusiast, StaceyKoon, would have handled this dierently, and

he did two-and-a-hal years hard time. And alsothat maybe they should get some tasers over

there. Thats all were saying.

You want an indictment?You GOT one!Sure, the Guadalupe County Sheris Oce

embraces the Customer is Always Right policy

to the bitterest o ends, but the District Attorneyout there is no slouch in that department either.

Back when NBs disposable containerban was top story in the city, Can-Ban poster

girl, ormer New Braunels Mayor Pro-Tem,

wie o ormer US Senator Robert Krueger,

and eventual disappointed Comal County

Commissioner candidate Kathleen Kruegerdecided she wanted vocal Can-Ban opponent,

serial petition generator, general rabble-

rouser, and ounder o the now out-o-print NBCitizen, Leonidas-Mark-Jason-Patrick-Moore-

McGonigal, to shut the hell up.

Her Kitchen Cabinet political groupdid some digging, and discovered that the

litigious, blusterous activist going by the name

o Mark McGonigal had actually started lie

as Mark Jason Moore, and in 2010, had

gone beore a Guadalupe County judgeto take on the slightly more epic moniker o

Leonidas Patrick McGonigal. (Cue orchestra.)

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Continued rom previous page.A little more digging revealed that

Moore-McGonigal had a decades-old elonyon his record. Some MORE digging turned upMoore-McGonigals application or his namechange. A ne-toothed comb run over thatapplication ound that Moore-McGonigal hadanswered No on the part o the applicationthat asked i he had ever been nally

convicted o a elony.Krueger was nice enough to let New

Braunels Police Chie Tom Wibert in on theelony inormation via the electronic mail.Heres the relevant excerpt:

McGonigal swore he was not fnallyconvicted o a elony. That is a lie and an acto perjury. Thats another story and one I hopeyoure aware of. If not, we can meet to talkabout it. I am in hopes that Guadalupe Countylaw enforcement will act quickly on information

they now have about that issue. (Emphasis ours)According to the email, she had already

been in contact with Guadalupe Countyon this situation, and it was clearly very,very important to her to get a case moving.As it turned out, NBPD also got at least oneanonymous phone call and an anonymouspackage containing inormation on Leonidas-Mark-Jason-Patrick-Moore-McGonigalsname change. We believe its a sae bet thatGuadalupe County got the same treatment.

Now it should be noted that NBPD alreadyknew about the name change application, asthey had been looking into Moore-McGonigalor posts he made on Facebook. (It seemscertain members o the community wereeigning outrage and ear over some sarcasticcomments, as one does when trying tomanipulate public opinion. #alsharpton)

Anyway, what New Braunels Policeknew that Krueger didnt, is that there issomething called deerred adjudication,

which in Moore-McGonigals case meantthat he wasnta convicted elon, because hehad ullled court-ordered terms o probation.Texas DPS records conrmed that status to us,as did the ollowing rom a report authored byormer NBPD Detective Zac Armstrong:

While two of the charges Moore wasarrested on were dismissed, the other tworesulted in a deferred sentence, to whichMoore completed successfully. As a resulto the deerred sentence being completed

successully, Moore is not considered aconvicted elon.(Emphasis ours)The report went on to state that NBPD

veried the data by contacting each court,probation oce and arresting agency directly.(Guadalupe County decided to disregard thosendings and run with the Krueger-generatedrequest instead. Politicians are, ater all, in thebusiness o persuasion.)

The NBPD report is airly cut and dried,which is why most people amiliar with thecase were not particularly shocked when thecharges o Aggravated Perjury against Moore-McGonigal were dropped a ew weeks back,at the request o none other than the very same

Guadalupe County District Attorney s ocethat went beore a grand jury seeking to indicthim a year-and-a-hal back.

We called DA McMinn and asked herwhy she bothered to seek the indictment at alli she wasnt going to ollow through on it. Herreason or dropping the case against Moore-McGonigal might be the most disingenuousthing weve heard in a good long while rom alawyer. Youre going to love this:

DA McMinn: We have to prove beyond areasonable doubt that the person that is the subjecto the judgment that we have is that person.

TX Citizen: (Incredulous) You couldntprove that?

DA McMinn: How would you prove that?Well, we were thinking a rudimentary

comparison o ngerprints might do the trick,but hey, shes the proessional.

From here on out, or the rest o your lie,keep in mind that when a grand jury returns

an indictment, that the DA presenting the casemight not even know if the guy they want totake to trial is the right person. Wed say thatsJob One or an honest prosecutor, but as wevementioned beore, elected ocials are waysmarter than us. Theyre, like, super super smart.

This is how prosecutors pad their resume,by the way because a plea deal counts asa win. They get indictments on unwinnable,possibly illegitimate cases, hoping that thesimple pressure o the situation will orce

the suspect into a deal. Which is part o thereason plea-bargaining is considered highlycontroversial outside o the United States. Andwhy indictments need to be taken with a graino salt. Damn shame, that.

Itd be nice to think that the peoplecharged with protecting us were smart enoughto check prints, or at least honest enough notto lie about why they dropped cases that wereonly brought because the wie o a ormerSenator wanted somebody silenced. But hey,

when the service is that good, youve got togure somethings going to give.

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Mike ReynoldsPublisher/Editor-in-Chie

Postscript: DA McMinn made it very clearto us that she disagrees with the NBPD reportand insisted that Leonidas-Mark-Jason-Patrick-

Moore-McGonigal is guilty o perjury, eventhough shes not 100% sure i he is who shethinks he is and cant be bothered to check. Inthe real world, we call that the Worst ExcuseEver and an insult to our intelligence. But hey,thats what she wants us to believe about her,so well go ahead and run with it. O course,that has its own ramications:

Let the record show that when McMinnwas quizzed on why she did what she did,she checked Stupid/Incompetent insteado well, I guess the alternatives (Dishonest,Easily Bullied into Abusing Oce by OtherPoliticians) arent much better. Carry on.

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