Integrity
In considering a candidate for Justice of the Peace it is very important to ask the candidate if his professionalism or performance has ever been found to be ineffective or erroneous by a reviewing court.
* Scott has never had one of his trial convictions overturned on appeal.
* Scott has never been found to be ineffective by a court.
* Scott has never received a complaint from the Nevada State Bar.
* Scott's opponent Lewis Taitel has recently been found to have committed an "egregious", "remarkably bad", and "flagrant" error by the Chief Judge of the Washoe County District Court.
* Taitel caused a "miscarriage of justice" by dismissing a charge where a defendant strangled his wife. He later pled guilty after charges were reinstated by the Chief Judge.
* Taitel has committed a record FIVE ethics violations including making "misleading" statements about his experience, campaigning in violation of Nevada law and advertising calculated to give voters the false impression that Taitel is a full-time judge" Nevada Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics. Read the most recent decision by clicking this link - http://www.judicial.state.nv.us/Published%20Decision%2010-8.pdf
Scott has the demonstrated integrity to do the right thing.
Each of the thousands of days I have spent as a prosecutor I have dedicated myself to my duty to act as "a minister of justice" ensuring "that guilt shall not escape nor innocence suffer".
During my tenure as a deputy district attorney I have been committed to truth and justice above all. During that same time my opponents were advocating for criminals. They were not bound by the same obligation to only seek the truth or justice as in our legal system "defense counsel has no comparable obligation to ascertain and present the truth."
I am the only candidate who was obligated to judge the facts and evidence in thousands of cases for more than a decade to determine the truth and to see that "justice is done" for all of the citizens of Washoe County, not just the criminals.
Scott