Barry Levinson
Susan Kang Schroeder
Chief of Staff
Orange County District Attorney
Hello Ms. Schroeder:
It has been a while since we last talked. I hope you are doing well.
I have blogged that your office did the right thing by recently bringing charges against former City Manager Joe Felz and I commended your office for it. No one should be above the law.
Implicit in your decision is the fact that our former Police Chief Danny Hughes (hours before he was retiring from his position), made not only a poor decision but a criminal decision in not directing his officers to arrest Joe Felz in the wee hours of November 9, 2016. The facts are clear that Danny Hughes overruled normal Fullerton police procedure and the law, sending another officer of his own choosing to go to the scene after the fact to conduct a so-called sobriety test away from all the other officers on the scene.
Are you going to charge Danny Hughes with obstruction of justice and any other statute that he may have violated on November 9th?
That Joe Felz used his position of power in the city to escape arrest is one thing but the head of our law enforcement department to make it happen is actually worse in my opinion. Our whole society is greatly damaged when the citizens loose confidence in the equal application of our laws.
Please let me know what your office plans will be on this matter.
Respectfully,
Barry Levinson
Fullerton Resident
In my humble opinion not to take action against Danny Hughes would be a stain against the citizenry and against the tenets of justice.
I did get a response from Ms. Schroeder stating she could not talk about an ongoing investigation. Well now that Joe Felz has been arraigned in a North Orange County Courthouse on April, 3 2017, it is time for our OCDA to take formal action against Danny Hughes. We as a democratic people can not have confidence in our law enforcement and our justice system if those charged to enforce our laws and administer justice are not held to the same standards as everyday people.
#1 by Fullerton Resident on May 15, 2017 - 9:09 am
Does any of our government institutions work anymore? We know that Dan Hughes failed to direct the officers on the scene to immediately give Joe Felz a breathalyzer test. If he was doing his job he would have castigated his watch commander and the officers on the scene for contacting him first before doing their jobs. The officers on the scene should have given him a breathalyzer immediately after smelling alcohol. But instead of doing their jobs they allowed Joe Felz to call and speak with the Police Chief. Since when does the suspect run the show? The obvious answer is in Fullerton, where government is corrupt and too often it is the police officers who are the criminals.
We live in very corrupt times where politicians have instituted barriers that make it extremely difficult to root out criminal behavior by police officers. It seems sometimes that the most corrupt of our politicians and government officials are too often fully in charge and the truth is something to ignore at all costs.