DA Says She's Fulltime Despite Illness

How sad that it's come to this.... The office is full of talented prosecutors, investigators and support staff, people who work hard every day to keep the community and the citizens of CA safe. They are not perfect, nor do they pretend to be, but they take their responsibilities seriously and are local citizens with families like the rest of us. Oddly enough, the loudest critics of law enforcement always seem to be defendants, defenders, or political opponents.... Mrs. Stanley was elected by a landslide because she represented the most decent, capable, compassionate, and honorable of all the candidates ( no personal offense to the others). Regardless of differences of personal opinion, her staff is by and large loyal and dedicated, both to her and to the public they serve. If and when it is appropriate, the public will decide whether she has served the County fairly. Until you step up and do the job that our law enforcement community does, don't whine, you just sound pathetic.

Our city and county are overrun by entitlements, this would never fly in the corporate sector, it's time have an outside audit of all jobs, benefits, hours and productivity. I'll bet we are very "top heavy." Our tax money is being pilfered away by our trusted officials.

haha, i love the "more or less" comment. self righteous people make me gag!

Dudley a highly respected attorney in the legal community? Nonsense. She is seen as a blatant self-promoter and bully with marginal skills at best. Clearly she is now ready to turn on Stanley who probably should resign. But there are many people more qualified to be DA than one who has participated in so much of the ethically questionable efforts of this office over the past 10 years. Get someone from the outside and clean up the hubris.

The elected D.A. has cancer, and people are in an uproar to have her step down. And the "best" that the Independent could find to give an "impartial" assessment is Doug Hayes !! Oh Geez.... I was laughing seeing his comments.... an over the hill... long time detractor of the D.A.'s Office who if elected would have run the office into the ground !!

It is nothing but gossip that the office is not being run while Chistie Stanley is battling her cancer.

You don't just force someone into retirement when they are ill with cancer, unless there is a reason..... the article is nothing more than courthouse gossip with no evidence of any problems. (You know what "evidence" is... right Doug?)

DA Stanley's comments are false. She has been to the office less than 10 times in the past year and a half. She is totally sick. Her top assistants are complete dopes. The man she appointed in charge of Santa Maria, Eugene Martinez, hides in his office all day with the door closed hoping not to have to make a decision. Her top assistant in Santa Barbara, Eric Hanson, watches baseball on his office TV during work hours. Her illness and poor appointments have encouraged a total lunatic like Dudley to run against her. Maybe Dudley will write another poorly worded, grammatically incorrect vanity press piece on Jordan Danner's run for DA. I am sure Dudley already scribbled it. The DA's Office is in for tough times ahead.

Barney, you need to double check your facts, Joyce is Dudley is NOT "highly respected in legal circles." She has just mediocre skills and uses ethically questionable tactics in her cases. She's a total self-promoter and is more focused on getting convictions than doing justice to advance her career. She's an avowed feminist and man-hater to curry favor with the PC feminazi groups. There are more competent and honorable prosecutors in the SB office who would make infinitely better choices for our next DA. If not, we should bring in a good person from the outside to clean up the mess in that broken office.

Just about everyone working in the criminal justice system knows that District Attorney Stanley and her husband are milking the system for personal gain. Stanley has excellent health and disability benefits. It appears she wants all that plus her large salary. Not much of an example when the District Attorney continues to demand her full salary when she is no longer able to do the work. When did this sort of greed become acceptable?

This kind of unprofessional public dirty laundry wash endorses the fact that our Law Courts have become a mockery and the Lawyers are simply the jesters. How can we the public expect dignity coupled with expertise and the truth in the courtroom when they behave like buffoons in public?

The public can demand honesty and dignity when they cast their well informed votes in the next election.

I still see absolutely no info by anyone blogging here that somehow the D.A.'s office is not running as it should. The Hollywood case resulted in a conviction.... there are no attorneys quiting the office and claiming that the office is "falling apart", nothing from probation, police, or the courts that the office is "in disaray".

So where is this huge problem? How is Ms. Stanley's illness causing the D.A.'s not to do their job?

I see nothing more than a lot of vultures circling.... An elected official is ill, but her office keeps working... I think that is pretty commendable.

How curious! You think it's commendable that Ms. Stanley continues to collect her full salary even though she seldom shows up and does little or no work. Your justification -- the office is still functioning and getting convictions. Yes, the office is still functioning because the hard working Deputy D As are showing up for work and doing their job.

govlawwatch: Who ever said that because you are ill with cancer that you should quit your job? You're position would be that she should be forced to quit..... to give up her health benefits, to stop working in the department that she has been with for her entire career.... and to be put out on the street without salary or medical help.

Give me a break. Again.... so other than a defense attorney and former D.A. candidate who was embarassingly trounced.... who is providing any verifiable information that the D.A.'s office is not running as it should.