Steve Descano is incompetent

This political commentary page is about @SteveDescano’s hypocrisy in reforming the @FairfaxCountyCA’s office, among other topics.

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

The @FairfaxNAACP deserves praise for calling out the failures of @FairfaxCountyCA @SteveDescano’s office when it comes to plea bargaining, charging decisions, and sentencing.

I’ve been saying this for months; I’m glad the tide is finally turning against Descano’s incompetence.

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

girl calm the fuck down lol

[Speaker Don Scott @SpeakerDonScott]

Wow! @JasonMiyaresVA was speeding too!! Perish the thought! @GovernorVA must now call for his resignation!! Along with John Reid -That will be two folks Youngkin has screened out on the Republican ticket! You cannot make this stuff up!

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

Wow, drinking at 8AM. Senior Commonwealth Attorney Eric Clingan’s entire credibility and career need to be in question.

If this is fine for @FairfaxCountyCA @SteveDescano, then what else would be? Senior leadership drinking behind a strip mall dumpster at 8am seems to be…

[7News DC @7NewsDC]

Bodycam footage from Fairfax County police shows that when Senior Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Eric Clingan was cited for drinking in public, officers did not make him perform a sobriety test and provided the prosecutor with a ride home.
https://t.co/tjGNGa0v9S

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

@FairfaxCountyCA Posts like this from Descano are just virtue signaling BS

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

@FairfaxCountyCA This has gotta be a joke. If Descano truly cared about it, he’d consistently apply his charging and plea bargaining standards to all cases, but fails to do so.

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

SignalGate isn’t limited to Trump, @FairfaxCountyCA @SteveDescano’s team was seemingly also using Signal improperly.

Makes sense, incompetence and dishonesty are something Descano’s office and Trump’s office have in common.

[Nick Minock @NickMinock]

BREAKING: Fairfax County CA @SteveDescano is using an app with his county government team that automatically deletes messages, for the purpose of avoiding FOIA, according to sources.

Is he breaking the law? @7NewsDC will have this exclusive story at 6pm.
https://t.co/glk6oVbyIO

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

.@FairfaxCountyCA @SteveDescano would have to be first in line

[Brad Haywood @BradleyRHaywood]

Hear me out: prisons, but only for elected officials who pretended to care about racial justice and criminal legal reform after the murder of George Floyd, but now couldn’t be worse allies.

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

.@JasonMiyaresVA isn't right about the reasons to ask @FairfaxCountyCA @SteveDescano to resign, but it should be clear to everyone that Steve should never hold public office again. https://t.co/lXdeMT1cjx

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

If Democrats end up with a trifecta in Virginia next year, this is something they should consider passing

https://t.co/13aaWauNoR

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

@SteveDescano Yes, thankfully you aren’t on the ballot this year

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

@SteveDescano Makes sense it’s a costume, because underneath that costume is a fraud who isn’t a criminal justice reformer at all

[Clark Neily @ConLawWarrior]

Civil forfeiture is back in the news. And for good reason: It’s among the most corrupt and corrupting public policies in America and presents serious constitutional concerns. Unfortunately, policymakers and activists both overlook the single most effective forfeiture reform. /1

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

@FairfaxCountyCA Thank you Steve! This is a win for justice and holding another careless law enforcement official accountable!

[Fairfax DA Steve Descano @FairfaxCountyCA]

CA Descano announced today that a jury convicted former FCPD Sergeant Wesley Shifflett, 36, of reckless discharge of a firearm regarding the shooting of Timothy McCree Johnson, 37, on February 22, 2023. Shifflett was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

[Lara Bazelon @larabazelon]

1/4 If a prosecutor admits a conviction is wrongful & the defendant may be innocent, you would think that the defendant's life would be spared. But you would be wrong. Increasingly, judges are rejecting these confessions of error and ordering executions to go forward.

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

@SteveDescano Steve, you do know a lot about lying. The republicans lie, and so do you about what you’re accomplished, when in reality, you’re an absolute failure

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Some people blame the media 100% for public discontent with police & refuse to confront footage like this, where there’s no spin or bias. Just raw video of some men on a power trip, publicly discrediting themselves. A culture of unaccountability.

[Steve Descano is incompetent @DescanoIsFake]

@FairfaxCountyCA Patrick’s concern would be justified if it happened in Fairfax. Your prosecutors would eagerly look for something that’d be a felony charge to bully defendants into a plea.

What you mentioned isn’t what your office actually does. You’d know if you ever spent time in courtrooms.

[Clark Neily @ConLawWarrior]

The only way plea-driven mass adjudication could even *remotely* be consistent with the Constitution is if we can be highly confident that it never becomes coercive. But in fact the opposite is true—we can be highly confident that plea bargaining OFTEN becomes coercive.

[Public Defenseless Podcast @PDefenselessPod]

Our legal criminal legal system is so broken that if even 10% of people accused of crimes went to trial instead of plea, the entire system would collapse.

Is there any other right in the Bill of Rights that would break the country if more than 10% of people exercised it?