Trying to nail the prosecutor

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Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Trying to nail the prosecutor</h1>
                <h2><p>Pierce County's prosecutor is going to court Tuesday — to defend himself. A judge will hear arguments on whether a recall petition against Prosecutor Mark Lindquist can be circulated for the 38,000 voter signatures needed to trigger a recall election. As the News-Tribune reports, a critic has filed</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Pierce County's prosecutor is going to court Tuesday — to defend himself. A judge will hear arguments on whether a recall petition against Prosecutor Mark Lindquist can be circulated for the 38,000 voter signatures needed to trigger a recall election. As the <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article29747605.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">News-Tribune reports,</a> a critic has filed 12 charges against Lindquist. The petition can go forward if a judge rules that any one of the accusations — ranging from vindictive prosecution to mismanagement — is legally sufficient to recall a public official. The judge doesn't decide whether Lindquist has actually done anything wrong; that would be up to voters who would look at such juicy questions as whether he labeled some attorneys a "confederacy of dunces" and whether he then had aides try to stick their clients with unfavorable plea bargain deals.</p>
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Pierce County's prosecutor is going to court Tuesday — to defend himself. A judge will hear arguments on whether a recall petition against Prosecutor Mark Lindquist can be circulated for the 38,000 voter signatures needed to trigger a recall election. As the News-Tribune reports, a critic has filed 12 charges against Lindquist. The petition can go forward if a judge rules that any one of the accusations — ranging from vindictive prosecution to mismanagement — is legally sufficient to recall a public official. The judge doesn't decide whether Lindquist has actually done anything wrong; that would be up to voters who would look at such juicy questions as whether he labeled some attorneys a "confederacy of dunces" and whether he then had aides try to stick their clients with unfavorable plea bargain deals.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi