CITY: Legal process seriously lacking

It appears from the article suggesting Patriot Front’s Rousseau “got away,” something is amiss at the City Attorney’s Office. Deputy Ryan Hunter failed to get the defense court-required information stating it was because of being short-staffed and these things “fall into the cracks for every person.”

A lost cellphone, filings coming in late, objections not being properly filed, court orders not being followed, a judge in his 10 years of service states he has never seen this level of failure to properly disclose evidence, and taxpayers having to pay for a private attorney are a very telling story.

Is it any wonder, in this dysfunctional environment, that Wes Somerton perhaps swept the Pride in the Park case under the rug, which happened on the same day as The Patriot Front? Oh wait, is this one of those “cracks” into which things fall for every person? Or, is this a “failure to properly disclose evidence?”

By the way, Matt Petersen, your ignorance in the videography profession shows, as an “enhanced” video is not a doctored video, it is not an AI video, it is the very same procedure that our police force and prosecuting attorneys use to put criminals in jail.

JoANN LOKKEN

Coeur d’Alene