Delaware Attorney General's Office Mission: Protecting the Corrupt System

When I first heard (Former) Chief of Family Division - Deputy Attorney General Patricia Dailey Lewis state these words in a Family Law Commission meeting - "My job is to protect the system," I stared at her.  I stared at the others in attendance for a few seconds of a very awkward silence, awaiting a more noble reasoning for her professional existence.
There was essentially no elaboration--just her self proclaimed mission statement in seven words.

This system that the good lady spoke of, and that every member of the Delaware Attorney General's office seek to protect, is dirty and corrupt, with no accountability.
I have learned through personal experience that they have no problem withholding exculpatory evidence for the sake of "protecting" this system.
Here are just a few of the more notable examples:


1) Wilmington News Journal:
"Superior Court Judge William Witham Jr. granted a defense motion to dismiss the case against Loyer Braden, 20, of East Orange, NJ because (Delaware) prosecutors withheld key evidence in the 2007 shooting......"

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/del_attorney_general_will_not.html

This is a tragic story where a young Delaware State University student was gunned down and two sleazy State prosecutors blew the entire case.
Who were these prosecutors? Deputy Attorney Jason Cohee and Deputy Attorney General Dennis Kellegher.
Where are they now? Well, unlike the real world, where incompetence and misconduct is frowned upon and subject to punitive action, in the Delaware Department of Justice, misconduct is actually a promotoable act -  DAG Dennis Kellegher was (ironically) promoted to the Head of the Civil Rights Unit and DAG Jason Cohee continues his career trek, protecting that corrupt system that Patricia Dailey Lewis spoke of.

Delaware State University and former State Senate candidate had this to say about the moronic behavior of the Attorney General's office:

I don't often blog about DSU, given my position there, but this isn't really a post about the university, or even about the tragic events that took the life of Shalita Middleton in fall 2007.

It's about the absence of outrage.

The charges against Loyer Braden have been dismissed, not just because the Attorney General's office apparently failed to share exculpatory evidence with the defense, but also because a key witness recanted testimony tying Braden to the homicide.

What's missing in this picture? How about somebody in state government, state politics, or even the News Journal calling for a serious investigation of whether or not it is common practice in the AG office for prosecutors to just, ah, forget to hand over evidence in discovery as required by law?

But I'm waiting for somebody in the General Assembly to stand up and say, "Wait a damn minute! We need to investigate this case! We need to investigate this office! Somebody needs to get fired or disbarred, and oversight needs to be put into place to insure that this doesn't happen to anybody else."

2) The Delaware Attorney General's office cited for unethical conduct in a death penalty case:

Delaware State News: "Following yet another appeal on issues defense attorneys said were left unresolved in its earlier decision, the Supreme Court sent the case back to Parkins, ruling unanimously last year that Wright was entitled to a new trial because prosecutors repeatedly withheld potentially exculpatory evidence."

http://delawarestatenews.net/news/delaware-frees-inmate-spent-two-decades-death-row/

3) The Delaware Attorney General's office allows an admitted pedophile Judge (William Bradley) to escape prosecution, blocked any criminal investigation and allowed the pedophile judge to simply retire under full pension. Even more egregious, the Attorney General's office continues to fight tooth and nail to suppress one victim's quest for justice, a man who alleges the judge molested him when he was 14 years old. The alleged molestation would occur in the judges home and even in the judges chamber.
See Below:
//www.wboc.com/story/21242892/de-court-reverses-ruling-in-judge-abuse-lawsuit


In closing, I would like to share with you another example of the "protecting the system" utilized by these people. In a phone conversation I had with Deputy Attorney General Patricia Dailey - Lewis, she stated that she would "make sure that she (the perpetrator of false police reports against me) would never be arrested - screaming like a wild banshee (literally), I have this conversation recorded on what might very well be the most optimum recording device in existence and listen to it from time to time. However, contrary to DAG Dailey - Lewis protecting her criminal, two years and two months later, she would be arrested for filing multiple false police reports.

I have discovered through experience that some of the worst criminals are quite contrary to stereotype. They wear business suits, dress suits, loafers and pumps. They purport to stand for justice, but in actuality stand to protect a broken and corrupt system that we call justice.