Prosecutorial Misconduct Against Balch Stooges?

Last week, we wrote that we smelled “selective and vindictive” prosecution of indicted Balch stooges Trey Glenn and Scott Phillips.

Yesterday, Alabama Political Reporter confirmed discrepancies that appear to confirm allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

Bill Britt reported that former Jefferson County District Attorney Mike Anderton had never asked the Alabama Ethics Commission to help him bring the criminal case against Glenn and Phillips.

In fact, the truth is the opposite. Britt writes:

According to Anderton, in the fall of 2018, Ethics Commission General Counsel Cynthia Propst Raulston approached him because “she had a case she wanted to present to the Jefferson County Grand Jury.”

He further states, “I told Ms. Raulston that I would facilitate her appearance before the grand jury but that my office did not have the resources to support her case. I also told her that she would have to prosecute the case herself.”

Although we, too, cannot stomach Glenn and Phillips’ alleged conduct in the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal, blatant abuse of the judicial branch and unsavory conduct by lawyers in Alabama is just as revolting.

We have been fighting for inherent goodness in Alabama for over 2 years and have seen some of the most unbelievable misconduct ever against innocent victim Burt Newsome.

Now for the bombshell.

Britt writes:

The indictments stem from a complaint filed with the ethics commission by GASP, a Birmingham-based environmental group that closely monitors toxic waste and other polluters in the state.

Raulston’s sister, Stacie Propst, is GASP’s former-director, and insiders claim that the siblings shared private communications about the case….emails and text messages between the sisters could become an area the defense may probe aggressively.

The defense raises serious concerns over how the commission’s lawyers mishandled the procedural requirements in finding an indictment against the pair.

That Anderton now confirms his lack of involvement in the case cast doubt over how the indictments were pursued against Glenn and Phillips in the first place.

If the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct are true, the charges against Glenn and Phillips would be dropped. This also would be a devastating setback not only for the Propst sisters but for Alabama’s oversight agencies and criminal justice system.

But then again, nothing in Alabama surprises us.

Like the Newsome Conspiracy Case,  GASP should fight back against Balch & Bingham not through the corrupt judicial or oversight systems of the State of Alabama, but through federal civil RICO litigation.

Like Newsome, GASP at one point in the past appears to have become a target.

Only then, through a RICO action, could Irving Jones, Jr.,  Balch-made millionaire Joel I. Gilbert, Drummond Company, and the numerous Balch stooges be held accountable for their alleged unsavory conduct against GASP.