Minneapolis’ disgraced-public-defender-turned-prosecutor, Mary Moriarty, put out a memo innocuously entitled “Negotiations Policy for Cases Involving Adult Defendants.” But the policies she puts forward in it are far from innocuous. In fact, they’re illegal.
Beginning on Monday, April 28, she has ordered prosecutors in her office to begin treating people differently based on their race.
Of course, this differential treatment shouldn’t come as a surprise given the lenient “diversionary” deal she recently gave to a former Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz aide who keyed numerous Teslas, resulting in almost $20,000 damage while throwing the book at a different individual accused of causing similar damage of around $7,000 for nonpolitically motivated reasons.
Yet her race-based preference policy is even more egregious.
Any first-year law student knows that…
