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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Ind. Courts - More on the Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney issues

The ILB has had many entries on the controversies involving Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney. Today the Muncie Star-Press has an online "teaser" -- but the story itself is a "print exclusive," meaning that unless you buy of copy of today's paper, this headline "McKinney presents 'appearance of evil?'" to this brief story will leave you in the dark:

Did Mark McKinney’s double-duty as a Delaware County prosecutor and civil attorney for the city-county Drug Task Force’s efforts to seize assets of local drug defendants have “the appearance of evil?”

McKinney — who is facing disciplinary action from the Indiana Supreme Court over his dual role — scoffs at the idea and notes that a special prosecutor has cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing.

But a noted Hoosier law expert says that McKinney’s actions, even if they were not illegal, could pose an ethical problem for the embattled attorney.

For more on this story see today's print edition of The Star Press.

Perhaps it would have been better for the paper to put nothing online, rather than to leave the paper's own characterization hanging?

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 4, 2009 09:56 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts