Assistant Harris County (Houston) Attorney arrested

[howdy]

An Assistant Harris County Attorney with a CHL called 911 to report she had pulled her gun on a road rage suspect. This is kind of scary when a County Attorney will use her position to get someone thrown in jail. This Lady (if found guilty) should lose her job and her law license.

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"I've got a man out here screaming at me at the First Bank, he cut me off coming down the road. He got out of his car and I pulled my gun on him. I have a concealed handgun license; I'm a Harris County prosecutor," Sciacca said on the call.

But when police arrived and started speaking with Leazer and Sciacca, Sciacca was arrested because officers say, bank security cameras show she actually followed Leazer into the parking lot and had no right to pull out her gun"

[C-dub]

That's going to get interesting. I wonder, you folks down in Houston might know better, does she deserve to be taught a lesson?

[kenobi]

Whether she deserves to be taught a lesson should depend on the security camera footage not politics. But with the political drama in Houston the past few years, It will be interesting to see what the grand jury does.

[JALLEN]

I wonder how long she has been a lawyer?

Sometimes the newbies, especially, get too full of themselves to think straight. I still guffaw every time I remember a stunt the DA's in San Diego pulled about the time I was admitted ~40 years ago. There was a party for the Deputy DAs at one fellow's house in La Jolla, a fancy enclave 8 or so miles north of downtown. The usual amount of drinking and partying went on, then some dimbulb got the idea to all drive down to the Police Station to see how drunk they were. They were given breathalysers, all right.

None of them got to drive back, and all of them had some 'splainin' to do, and plenty of time to do it.

[jmra]

This nailed it:
"I would hope anybody would know better, but this is somebody who should have really known better," Hauck said.

[WildBill]

I wonder how long she has been a lawyer?

She graduated law school December 2003 and was admitted to the bar in May 2005.

[Oldgringo]

I wonder how long she has been a lawyer?

She graduated law school December 2003 and was admitted to the bar in May 2005.

She's certainly old enough to know better; however, is she smart enough to know better?

[TxRVer]

I wonder how long she has been a lawyer?

She graduated law school December 2003 and was admitted to the bar in May 2005.

Does that mean it took her two years to pass the bar exam?

[RKirkwood]

" I have a concealed handgun license; I'm a Harris County prosecutor," To me this is 2 strikes against her. Getting cut off whether on purpose or by accident does not give you the right to chase someone down. Having a CHL has taught me that there are things not worth getting upset about. My XD is for my defense not for retaliation.

Since she is a County prosecutor she has seen how a split second decision without thinking has ended in a bad way.

[JALLEN]

I wonder how long she has been a lawyer?

She graduated law school December 2003 and was admitted to the bar in May 2005.

Does that mean it took her two years to pass the bar exam?

Maybe. That is not uncommon, actually. She might have taken time off to have a baby, go be admitted in some other states, gone on a long vacation after law school. Sometimes the intensity of going to law school makes it necessary to simmer down before trying the exam, which is a non-trivial exercise.

No stigma attaches to not making it on the first try, though. The pass rate on the CA Bar is often less than 50%. The three of us who studied together all through law school all passed on the first try, a statistical miracle.

The margin between the highest grade in the state and flunking is not that great.

When I was waiting for exam results, a long, long time ago, there was a story in the papers, just before results were to be released, about a man who had taken the CA Bar exam twice a year for some 20 odd years, never passed. It became his hobby, I guess. Talk about making you wake up screaming in the middle of the night, though.

One of my law school classmates took more than 12 years to pass the CA Bar, with a long gap to deal with the devil of alcoholism. He took it twice a year for several years, became a drunk, wandered around for a long time, sobered up, got himself together and finally passed. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, even a Kennedy. Harry just died last year.

[ELB]

Short career as an ADA. Or should be, sounds like.

[RKirkwood]

[bayouhazard]

Either that or a promotion. You never know in Harris County.

[cb1000rider]

Short career as an ADA. Or should be, sounds like.

Yea, she'll just switch over to being a defense attorney and make 3-10x the money.

I saw this article yesterday. It's one of the worst types of abuse of public trust. I wonder how many other rules she broke before she got caught?

In her defense, she listens to lies (on both sides of the courtroom) for a living... No wonder it became part of her life.

Mad Kudos to HPD for NOT sweeping this under the rug, making it go away, and actually investigating it.... I'd love to see her disbarred as this sort of thing reflects on her character as part of the court system.

[ELB]

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Mad Kudos to HPD for sweeping this under the rug, making it go away, and actually investigating it.... I'd love to see her disbarred as this sort of thing reflects on her character as part of the court system.

I assume you meant to put a "NOT" in there some place, but I think I know what you meant. However, I believe it was the Tomball PD who investigated and arrested her, not the HPD. Unless Tomball PD is part of the HPD congomerate.