(Headline USA) Pamela Price, the Soros-funded district attorney of Oakland County, California, melted down this week after a district judge rejected her plea deal to let a man convicted of a triple murder off the hook.
Price claimed in a video on Wednesday that Alameda County Superior Court Judge Mark McCannon “overstepped his boundaries as a judicial officer” by rejecting her plea deal, and “created a firestorm of prejudicial comments that do not, in my view, serve justice.”
She accused McCannon of “inappropriate” behavior in court, and said she would be moving to disqualify him.
“The judge is supposed to be an impartial referee managing cases that come before him,” she said. “Because of Judge McCannon’s inappropriate comments and conduct on two separate occasions, my office will file a motion to disqualify him from hearing any criminal cases being prosecuted by our office.”
Last month, McCannon rejected a plea deal Price brokered for defendant Delonzo Logwood, who was found guilty in the killings of Zaire Washington, Richard Carter and Eric Ford. Price’s deal would have allowed Logwood to plead no contest to voluntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Ford, and in exchange, the murder charges for Washington and Carter’s killings would be dropped.
McCannon torched the plea deal in a hearing and rejected Logwood’s attempt at an apology in court.
“You can’t think an apology will make this all better. What are you sorry for if you didn’t do anything?” the judge said.
Despite the judge’s concerns about the plea deal — and despite the concerns of prosecutors within her own office — Price continued to defend it as a necessary criminal justice reform.
“The time for a change in the justice system is now,” she said in the video. “To be perfectly frank, it hasn’t been easy to make changes in this office. There are a lot of rumors buzzing through this community. Much of it simply is not true.”
