DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The former Dallas County assistant district attorney, who was fired Monday after lashing out at an Uber driver, spoke to the media for the first time on Tuesday morning. It's up to John Vance to prosecute the more than 20,000 violent crimes a year in Dallas County. * place like this? That type of thing hurts, but he put out a statement and nobody printed a word of it. Some district attorneys maintain their own law enforcement arm whose members are sworn peace officers. Vance . Former Texas Judge Stockpiled Guns, Napalm Before Killing 2 Prosecutors A Dallas County District Attorney's office spokesperson confirmed John Lentz pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. The incident stems from voter fraud charges against Turner by Jackson and former Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill in January. I had immunity as District Attorney and a grand jury indicted this so there was probable cause, Jackson said. I want the cops to come and **** you up! Even though Madden made Texas Monthly's Best Legislator list for his work in the 2007 session -- which included an agenda that helped enact drug court legislation, provided for diversion of more non-violent felons from prison and appropriated more than $200 million for drug and alcohol addiction programs for inmates -- Hill et al. JOHN VANCE SITS IN HIS OFFICE ON THE top floor of the new county courts building on Industrial Boulevard and talks about a disease that he believes is ruining this country: pornography. Such accomplishments-and the respect they engender-dont carry over to the district attorneys office, where people skills and strength of personality are needed in large doses. Creuzot joined the team of prosecutors that secured a capital murder conviction this year. The primary is in March, and the general election will be in November. Her cases in the office have already been reassigned. This victim feels doubly wronged-first by the attacker and now by the inadequacies of Vances office. Dallas is really very lucky to have John Vance, says Patsy Day. His sense of fairness is apparent in all that he does. He began his legal life as a cuff-'em-and-stuff-'em baby prosecutor under Henry Wade, then morphed into a high-dollar white-collar criminal defense attorney. Some of them [prosecutors] dont like that, he admits. The Problem With Using State Troopers as City Cops What will happen to justice as Vance painstakingly weighs all the evidence, making sure that all is fair, that victims are kept informed, that prosecutors go by the book? Despite their differences, they also share similarities. The opinion from the Court of Appeals was public record. Vance tells of a haunting experience during his tenure as a judge that convinced him of the need for that change. He is a man who lists the number of years hes been married on the second line of his resume; a man who is proud that he has attended the Waterview Church of Christ since the second Sunday it was open; a man who says he is rewarded by doing the right thing.
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