DeSantis Removed State Attorney Soft On Crime. Convicted Felon Whose Case She Handled Wants Her Back. | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis removed State Attorney Monique Worrell, citing her "dereliction of duty" in prosecuting criminals - and now a felon whose case Worrell handled is trying to get her back on the job.

    Melizaire Dorsica, who had already been convicted of a felony when he was charged with the felony of carrying a concealed weapon, would fall under the rubric of defendants whose sentences Worrell commonly reduced. He petitioned Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit court on Wednesday to revoke DeSantis' executive order that removed Worrell from office, arguing the order was unconstitutional.

    "All of the grievances cited in support of [DeSantis' order] are attributable to DeSantis' dissatisfaction with Worrell's exercise of prosecutorial discretion, not a 'blanket policy,'" the petition reads, according to Fox News.

    "During Worrell's tenure in office, the administration of criminal justice in the Ninth Circuit has been so clearly and fundamentally derelict as to constitute both neglect of duty and incompetence," DeSantis' executive order stated. "Worrell has authorized or allowed practices or policies that have systematically permitted violent offenders, drug traffickers, serious-juvenile offenders, and pedophiles to evade incarceration, when otherwise warranted under Florida law.

    "Despite the Legislature's policy ... to subject felons who use a firearm in the commission of a violent felony to minimum mandatory sentences, assistant state attorneys in the Ninth Circuit have been prevented or discouraged from pursuing such minimum mandatory sentences... Worrell's practices or policies of evading minimum mandatory sentences for gun crimes are corroborated by her prosecutorial record," the order declared.

    "Worrell's practices or policies of evading minimum mandatory sentences for gun crimes are further corroborated by data from the Florida Department of Corrections. With respect to prison admissions from January 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023, the Ninth Circuit, on a per capita basis, had among the lowest prison admission rates relative to the other circuits for the following crimes: robbery with a weapon, armed burglary, and weapons possession," the order noted.

    "It is my duty as Governor to ensure that the laws enacted by our duly elected Legislature are followed," DeSantis stated. "The people of Central Florida deserve to have a State Attorney who will seek justice in accordance with the law instead of allowing violent criminals to roam the streets and find new victims."

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?

  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.

  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.

  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?

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