On October 14, 2010, nearly two years after she had taken the bench, Wooten was indicted by the sixth grand jury to hear her case. Don't try to fix it, that's how they like it. Spencer pled guilty. Spencer arrives for our meeting at the coffee shop in the Hilton Anatole dressed in a black zip-up polo, jeans, and gray loafers. He became passionate about criminal justice reform and started working with Doug Deason and his eponymous criminal justice reform center at SMU. And it was the best thing that ever happened in my career. Stacy and her sister-in-law sent him the Economist and the Wall Street Journal. If there was, every judge in the state of Texas could be indicted as well. It was still a gut punch, though, when she saw the verdict form. Corruption, of course, exists in big cities across the country, too, and Richard Durbin, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, said the dollar amounts involved in Texas cases. Justice in Collin County was hard to come by if you werent part of the club. After Wooten was elected, a hearing in the case was scheduled in her courtroom, but she recused herself as soon as she realized that several of the lawyers involved were from her old firm or had helped on her campaign. He tried reaching out to people he knew in the Collin County DAs office, but they were tight-lipped about the secret grand jury proceedings. I sat there and I thought, OK, you have to have intent when you steal. Instead, the evidence mainly focused on the timing of payments made by the Carys to Spencer and the timing of bills sent by Spencer to Wooten. Corruption Index Score: 45.61. Advertisment. Over half of the inhabitants reside in the county seat of Tyler with the rest residing in small rural towns. Toward the end of the year, she told the partners at a firm meeting that she intended to run for Sandovals seat. The losing judge said there was no way Wooten could have won without cheating, and the DA needed to find the crime. He saw Roach and Milner as bullies, routinely threatening lawyers and judgesanyone, really, who got in their waywith criminal prosecution. And a member of Roachs staff now holds Wootens former bench in the 380th District Court. Wootens criminaldefense attorney. The only saving grace was that the jury had spared her a first-degree felony conviction, so now the worst-case scenario was 20 years. Later, at the time of his indictment in the Wooten matter, he would be an officer with TDi, a tech company in Plano. texas state capitol austin texas. Texas Commission on Judicial Selection Final Report, 2020. The law also mandates public disclosure of contributors and the amounts contributed. Steve Spencer has not yet filed a motion with the court to overturn his conviction. Who bribed who what? Doesnt bribery involve you getting money or someone paying money or something? Wooten and Jill Willis, who were friends, were also outsiders: they were rare examples of Collin County jurists who had not taken the bench via the DAs office. Nearly a year later, while a fourth grand jury was investigating Wooten, Schulte, her lawyer, was finally able to arrange a meeting with Milner to try to find out what was going on. So when he offered his services as a turnkey media manager for her campaign, even though hed never managed a judicial campaign before, she agreed. Most try both criminal and civil cases, but in larger counties, such as Dallas, individual courts may specialize in civil, criminal, juvenile, or family law. But it was more than any of them ever intended her to have. Schulte started as a police officer in McKinney before getting his law license and going into private practice. Spencer and his wife, Kippling, had two daughters: one was Kipplings from a previous marriage; the other was their child together. I couldnt tell you. Then someone anonymously placed a copy of an email from First Assistant DA Greg Davis to Roach in her mailbox. When Wooten was finally indicted, Schulte thought it was a joke. They have original jurisdiction over matters such as felony criminal cases, divorce and child custody disputes, and civil claims of $200 or more. That for this money, youre going to do X.. The Special Crimes Unit has been disbanded. She was facing not only the loss of her career but also the loss of her family. I felt like that was the right thing to do, she says, not to put him in jail so that when he gets out he reoffends because he has nothing, hes getting no tools, hes not getting any help., The whispers about Wootens sentences made their way back to her. She paid the campaign bills as she received them from Spencer, and then she used her line of credit to pay off the outstanding balance at the end. I thought we had checks and balances. It had numerous replies. I will lose myself in the crazy, corrupt, centuries-old history of the Collin County court system. Assistant Attorney General | 2003 2015, Peter Schulte 2 Constable Kelly Smith-A man (and I use that term very loosely here) who has been in law enforcement for almost 25 years and has managed to climb ALL THE WAY DOWN the law enforcement ladder from county cop to police chief to now being just one rung above a WalMart security guard as a constable. 21. Schulte now lives with his partner, Brett, in West Arvada, Colorado, between Boulder and Denver. For the State to prove its case under the general bribery statute, the appellate court said, it had to prove that Stacys payment was not a political contribution. There was nothing left for her to do but wrap up her practice and order her robe. In his third letter to Milner, dated October 15, Sandoval wrote: The real reason for Ms. Wootens success was the radio advertising she did. During voir dire, when the attorneys and the judge went into chambers, he says he found himself alone in a room of 100 or more potential jurors. Former Chief of the Special Crimes Division of the CCDAO. At the time, under state law, to determine the members of the grand jury, district court judges had two options. Texas Ranger John Vance-A CORRUPT Texas Ranger, who in 30 years or so of investigating public corruption has never found a law enforcement officer guilty of wrongdoing (a statistical impossibility), but was instrumental in the FAKE sexual harassment investigation that led to Brandon Baade taking over the Wood County DAs office under the name of Angela Albers. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. He kept copious journals in faint, prison-approved pencil. His next stop was the Collin County Democratic Party, which told him that Wooten was talking about running for Sandovals seat. One obnoxious guy in the second row said loudly, So did you do it? With the help of James Roberts, the head of the firms civil rights section, they turned the whole thing around in a month and filed the lawsuit on May 18, 2018, with less than a week to spare. Shed need at least $50,000 of her own money to have a shot. Davis also warned prosecutors to avoid the 429th, Judge Jill Willis court. Federal statistics on public corruption convictions show the two judicial districts that cover South Texas rank near the top nationwide. It just takes one jilted man and a few loyal henchmen to put a woman back in her permitted place. I mean, he found us a lobbyist who is a great lobbyist. Friends in the legal community told her she should wait. Word of her intentions got around, and, in December 2007, she started receiving calls from Steve Spencer, a marketing-and-lobbying one-man band based in Austin who was known for wearing flashy clothes and driving nice rental cars. From January to March 2008, she paid him a total of $150,000: $50,000 on January 4, $25,000 on January 30, $25,000 on February 14, $25,000 on February 26, $10,000 on March 7, and $15,000 on March 14. Where are these places you wonder? Now, she was seated at the defense table, dressed not in a robe but in a conservative pantsuit, her blond hair pulled back in a basic bun. They talked over the next few days, and Stacy agreed to pay him $150 per hour up to $250,000 for his services. Wooten is farsighted, and she was familiar with the form from her time on the bench, so it was easy for her to decipher the jurys findings as the judge silently flipped through the pages: guilty, guilty, guilty. There were also ads run on the most popular morning and evening shows. Harry White currently has a law practice in Fort Worth. Read the full results below, with more details here: Rank State Score 51 North Dakota 0% 50 Wyoming 12% 49 Idaho 16% 48 Arizona 28% 47 Michigan 28% 46 Indiana 28% 45 Utah 31% 44 South Dakota 34% 43. With his assistance, the company was able to get $2 million in state funds allocated for the protocol, which was subsequently adopted in Denton County. The AGs office missed it, too. Wooten now has a busy mediation and trial consulting practice in McKinney called North Texas Litigation Solutions. He says sometimes C-level executives fail to see the forest for the trees, and you need to give them the top-down view so they can finally see the bear traps and the clear path through them. It isnt a crimealthough its not smartto use money earned from one client to pay bills for another before they pay you back because you dont want to admit to anyone that youre broke. I was like, thats where I wanna go fishing.. For 162 years, district court judges had gotten their benches either by gubernatorial appointment when a court opened up due to retirement or death, or by election (often uncontested) when a new court was created. Judge of the 429th | 2009 present, Greg Willis, (husband of Jill Willis) Im like, Bribery? She said that from the beginning, the cases against the judges seemed off. So on January 2, 2008, the last possible day to file, she walked over to the Collin County Republican Party headquarters. She also refused to sign off on routine asset forfeiture requests from the DAs office until after a conviction. Wooten, having done nothing wrong, refused to leave the bench. First he approached Michael Puhl, a McKinney attorney who had run and lost in 2006. It just seemed like there had to be some kernel of truth to the whole bribery thing, some questionable if not illegal activity that allowed the Collin County DAs office to prosecute four innocent people, convict three of them, and force the fourth to plead guilty. John Cornyn and Greg Abbott were running unopposed for the Supreme Court of Texas. The Most Lawless County in Texas Suzanne Wooten did the impossible and became the first candidate to defeat a sitting judge in Collin County. I dont think this set of facts has ever happened, he says. Hes just a very intelligent guy. Her readily accessible credit, available on credit cards and through a line of credit, never totaled less than $150,000 during the course of her campaign. I never even bothered to get it expunged. After the loss of the twins from their home and the hefty financial loss in court, Stacy and Dave decided to take their fight to Austin. The DAO has acted with seeming disregard for the personal, emotional, and financial costs to the individuals concerned., They also pointed out that Roach had been absent for at least one-third of the days normally worked by others in the courthouse, and that he was present at the seating of the grand jury and declined, in open court, to challenge any member of it as unfit.. Any claim that they came on as independent prosecutors late in the game was pure fiction. Next: A famously combative governor presides over one of the most corrupt states in the Union. White had been participating with Milner in the grand jury investigations since at least December 2008, and Abbott had been briefed on the progress of the case. Since Wooten, judicial races in the county are occasionally contested, and there are a lot more women on the bench. And thats when I was told the allegation was bribery. TikTok Timmy aka Pct. Most of the time, Stacy wasnt actually sure where her husband was. Suzanne Wooten had 10 minutes to decide her own fate. Milner told Schulte that Wooten had one week to resign. They filed a report stating that the Collin County DAs office was misusing the grand jury to undertake politically motivated investigations. But when it deals with allegations of political contributionsand political contributions is a broad termany money associated with a campaign must be done under section 36.02(a)(4) [of the Texas Penal Code], which requires the prosecution to show direct evidence of an express agreement. Should she say she was sick and had to go away to the hospital? He was elected to fill the vacancy left by Suzanne Wooten. The Collin County Republican Party had cashed her filing check, but they had reported Sandovals seat as unopposed. They got married in December 2006, joining households with their four young children. She adjusted her calendar, found something to wear, and got to work. She said, Do you want to be right or do you want to be free? Wooten knew that if she were sentenced to more than 10 years, she would not be entitled to an appeal bond; she would go straight to prison without seeing her kids. He was a young lawyer when he met Wooten in the summer of 2008, only a few years out of law school. Plus hes a fag.. These six checks would later constitute the six bribery counts in Dave, Stacy, and Wootens criminal court cases. Im in this blur, Wooten says. There were thousands and thousands of dollars of charges at Best Buy, Nordstrom, the Polo Factory Store, Steinway Piano Gallery, Cowgirls and Lace, Crunchless Abs, Neiman Marcusthe list goes on. ), One day, Wooten received a call at the courthouse from a drug rep. But election fraud is now a national rallying cry. 10. Then he read the comments and saw a thread that mentioned Sandoval. It was followed by Los Angeles with 1,547 and New York's Southern Judicial District with 1,360. She didnt even know he was suffering from thrombosis until she discovered theyd moved him to the medical unit in Galveston. Its tempting to think that things have improved. No, Dave replied. After her divorce from her first husband, she was living on a working cattle ranch outside of Waxahachie, breeding horses and miniature donkeys, when she decided to adopt two children from Russia. During Wootens trial, Judge Russell refused to admit any evidence about the political motivations underlying the case: neither the communications between Sandoval and the DAs office that started the whole thing nor the half-dozen grand juries it took to get an indictment. Blow the whi I was elected president of the local defense bar. He said he had gotten a grand jury subpoena requesting records related to the vacation home she had purchased several years before her election. The whole trial had felt like a terrible farce. She has the no-nonsense, salty-for-emphasis, English teacher-ish temperament of an effective mediator, which she now is. Wooten sentenced him to treatment. In addition to Collin County, the complaint named Assistant District Attorney Christopher Milner and his boss, District Attorney John Roach Sr., and Assistant Attorney General Harry White and his boss, Attorney General Greg Abbott. And I still find it difficult to fathom. They wrote a letter to the presiding judge, stating the DAO [District Attorneys Office] has used its authority, and the grand jury system, to investigate marginal cases against individuals acting in both public and private capacities. It involves parental rights. These are seasoned, experienced former federal prosecutors. Then he approached one of Puhls former law partners. The hard part, she thought, was over. Texas Attorney General | 2002 2015. The usual process is for the police to do their investigation and make an arrest, and then they turn the case over to the DAs office. She needed to meet her opponent in his own primary, in March. Wooten planned to change all that. I mean, its just mind blowing., Over the course of his career, he had numerous encounters with Milner and Roach in Collin County, and, even though he didnt know her, he had even donated a small amount to Wootens campaign. It determined there were no loans and no giftsabsolutely nothing of benefit passed to Wooten. He continued to focus on his appeal and wrote a book, Normandy: A Fathers Ship and a Sons Curiosity, about Stacys dad and his service in World War II. But Palmer was familiar with how Milner ran the Special Crimes Unit. He still has an active consulting practice, although he has not worked on another judicial campaign. Bald, bespectacled, and trim, with a sideline swagger and locker room vocabulary, Scott Palmer could pass for a collegiate basketball coach. And then there were the lawyers. Sandoval won 9,884 to 9,420. Because those juries never had the whole picture. Its a battle scar. (Although you cant run after you turn 75.). The Collin County trials, however, ended when Wooten was elected. Based on Milners use of the grand jury as a manipulative investigative tooland Roachs knowledge of itPalmer felt he had enough to go after the pair. Were going to appeal this until the end of time.. A jury was picked on . In all, the campaign ended up costing Wooten $112,000: $27,000 of it for the one radio ad that ran on several stations prior to the primary, $25,000 for Clements services, $7,500 for Spencers fee, and the rest for everything else. Harris County Democrats (Houston) have been using the same ballot corruption playbook George Soros owned Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is. Sometimes Im the guy, he says. They started making trips to the state capitol, trying to learn the ins and outs of parental rights legislation. Her law license was suspended, so she worked as a paralegal and started building a mediation and trial consulting business. They indicted Judge Wooten under regular bribery, where the person brings an envelope full of $10,000 cash, gives it to the judge the day before the hearing, and goes, Youre going to take care of what Im doing, right? Wink, wink. So my attention was drawn to Collin County, because its the reddest county in the reddest state, Spencer says. Spencer, after all, was the fulcrum between Wooten and the Carys. The bigger problem was the inconsistent way judges enforced them. Shortly thereafter, when she stopped by her bank, they told her they were going to have to close her account because they had received grand jury subpoenas for her bank records. Harry White, an assistant attorney general with election law experience, agreed to join the team. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 100 days in jail and 10 years probation. Wooten assured Spencer thatbetween her generous law firm salary, savings, and a $50,000 line of creditshe had sufficient funds at her disposal to cover anything she couldnt raise. But he was able to articulate every single committee in the Senate, in the House, who the personalities were, who they would respond to, and he was always right., One of the grand jurors, still fuzzy on Spencers role, asked, But would you sayif I wasif I was looking forif Mr. Spencer was looking for a client, what would he be doing for that client?, He would be doing something very, very creative, Dave replied. Direct evidence proving that a payment to a judge is a bribe and not a campaign contribution is, understandably, difficult to establish. Yet the witch hunt continued for years.. Spencer came to Dallas to meet with the Carys the following month, and they talked in the Carys home for several hours. Brings new meaning to the phrase Sunday Funday. But they let the others off the hook, finding their involvement in investigative functions was more limited. He estimated the overall cost would be $100,000 to $150,000. By law, each county in the state must be served by at least one, which, for small rural counties, can be shared. And that brings us to the crime. Judicial elections in Texas are still partisan. She says she used Spencers services before and long after the dates at issue. It was money well spent. With his Gregory Peck eyeglass frames and awkwardly oversize pinstripe suit, White resembled Atticus Finch if Atticus Finch were in the Federalist Society. Most people who arent lawyers or involved in the justice system go, How can they do that? His family had a background in local politics, and he soon discovered that he had a natural affinity for it. Collin County District Attorney | 2011 present, Greg Abbott Hes in Dallas on business. She didnt want even the appearance of impropriety. Corruption and incompetence. In February 2019, during his State of the Judiciary address to the 86th Legislature, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht (a Republican) addressed this issue: Historic as was the blow Hurricane Harvey dealt the Texas Judiciary, so was the blow from the November election, he said. We just pissed some people off.. A tall man with piercing eyes, Milner had the aura of someone youd best not mess with. Then Huntsville. John Roach Sr. was running uncontested for the 199th. We dug a lot of dry holes, Stacy says of the research. From 2015 to 2020, the Texas Rangers completed more than 560 public corruption case investigations, but only 67 of those cases have been prosecuted, according to DPS data analyzed by the. He says he agreed to do consulting work on behalf of both Stacy and Dave for pay and that any advice he gave them with regard to parental rights he was glad to provide for free. In addition to arguing that the Collin County District Attorneys Office was plagued by a pattern of abuse of power and malicious prosecution for political gain, Palmer and Cox also argued that Milner and Roach had grossly abused the grand jury process as part of their prosecutor-led investigation. Learn from it.. He has just flown in from Virginia, where he had been caring for his daughter who was recently in a car accident. Instead of the usual assistant district attorney who presented cases to the grand jury, Assistant District Attorneys Greg Davis and Christopher Milner presented the cases against Wooten and Willis. Corruption Index Score: 11.44 And for the place where people prefer a slower-paced lifestyle, This Is the Laziest State in America. I kept saying, I dont wanna look. When the restaurant next door closed down at 10 pm, the owners came over with bottles of wine. Kathy Wise has been the executive editor of. At first, while Dave was in the gang tank in the Billy Moore Correctional Center outside of Tyler, shed visit every week. With that in mind, Best Life set out to determine the most corrupt state in America. After analyzing federal corruption convictions, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review bestowed a new title on Edinburg: the dirtiest town, in the most crooked county, in the most bribable state. In September 2007, Dave met with Royce Poinsett, the general counsel for the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. They are dealing with low income, high unemployment, and lack of quality housing, resulting in poor living conditions and high crime. As far as I know, everybody had Wootens back. Assistant Attorney General Harry White would argue that the consulting agreement was fabricated after the fact to cover the real purpose of the $150,000the bribery of Wootenand that the only work Spencer did was to pass off industry analyses from places such as the Harvard Journal of Legislation as his own. Here is the cast of characters that you will be reading the most about: First Assistant District Attorney Brandon Baade-A man whose physical unattractiveness is only surpassed by his lack of intelligence and moral bankruptcy, but has somehow tricked the people in the courthouse that he is brilliant and that they have to heed every bit of horrible advice that he gives, even though it took him 3 years to pass the bar exam after graduating law school from the LESS THAN PRESTIGIOUS Regent University Law School. 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