Arizona detention officer spared from jail because judge "screwed up"

December 1, 2009 @ 10:21PM

Arizona detention officer spared from jail because judge "screwed up"

By Carlos Miller -...

Update: Arizona detention officer will spend night in jail after all.

Further making a national mockery out of the Arizona legal system, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office refused to book one of its own Tuesday night because of some unexplained clerical error.

Adam Stoddard surrendered to the jail as he was ordered to, but was then told to go home after the error was discovered.

According to Heat City:

“The judge screwed up the order of confinement,” said deputy county attorney Tom Liddy.

Liddy said the error was no fault of Stoddard or the sheriff’s office.

“He did self surrender,” the attorney said. “He is in compliance with the order.

So now we must wait until Wednesday morning to see how Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe will respond to the accusation from a county attorney that he “screwed up.”

So far, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Liddy and Stoddard have done nothing but snub their noses at Donahoe, who is supposedly the highest ranked judge in Maricopa County.

Last month, Donahoe found Stoddard in contempt of court after he was caught on video swiping a document from a defense attorney’s case file. Donahoe ordered Stoddard to apologize publicly by December 1 or face incarceration.

Stoddard refused to apologize and is still a free man.

Comments

Anonymous

2 years ago

Don’t you love it? Judge screwed up the order. Ha!

Anonymous

2 years ago

You can bet that Sherriff Joe’s lawyers scrutinized Stoddard’s paperwork. Searching for loopholes, guess they found one.

Now we’ll wait and see if Judge Donahoe discovers he has a spine.

Anonymous

2 years ago

I wonder if they would send ANYONE ELSE home due to a clerical “mistake”. This is complete bullshit.

Anonymous

2 years ago

Students oust Arpaio with songs. Group disrupts Q&A with ASU Journalism school staff

http://www.usatoday.com/video/index.htm?bctid=53369160001#/News/Students...

Anonymous

2 years ago

God Damnit! I hate Arpaio so fucking much!!! When will that old piece of shit die

Anonymous

2 years ago

When will the people of Maricopa figure out that they have a spine and not re-elect “America’s Sheriff”. If the people like him he’s going to continue to get elected. I guess until you are his target you probably think the stuff he does is OK .

Anonymous

2 years ago

How ‘convinient’.

Anonymous

2 years ago

Probably the same “error” of a misplaced comma or somesuch that appears on all the boilerplate/template orders of confinement.

Anonymous

2 years ago

I believe the best way to describe this is bullshit. Plain runny stinky bullshit. Have a nice day.

Anonymous

2 years ago

You idiots should all have to go to Joe’s jail and wear pink and eat bolgna sandwiches. You spineless d%#kheads. especially ADAM, Ronny and Duane.