There won’t be a lot of jing, jing, jing-a-linging on at Kim Ogg’s house this morning. After all, Santa brought Kim nothing but coal this holiday season:
Her fellow Democrats voted to censure her earlier this month, finding that she “abused the power of her office to pursue personal vendettas against her political opponents, sided with Republicans to advance their extremist agenda, and stood in the way of fixing the broken criminal justice system.”
Her office lost three murder cases in two weeks this month. In one of the cases the defendant—who had over 100 hours of firearms training—acknowledged shooting his wife twice, but claimed it was “an accident” even though police detectives concluded that it wasn’t. Another case involved the police catching the alleged shooter as he literally ran away from the crime scene after killing his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. And an eyewitness in the third case identified the shooter as someone whom she has known since elementary school. The alleged shooter killed her friend and then pointed the gun towards the eyewitness and pulled the trigger twice, but the gun didn’t fire.
A judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals—the highest court in Texas for criminal law matters—called Ogg’s Chief of Staff “not credible” and labeled her errors in a criminal case as “particularly egregious, and are hopefully rare”. The judge also suggested—not too subtly—that Ogg’s COS lied to the court, by explicitly referencing the rule of professional responsibility related to “Candor Toward the Tribunal,” which requires that “a lawyer shall not knowingly: (1) make a false statement of material fact or law to a tribunal[.]”
Crime victims are railing against Ogg—“You need to do a better job at protecting victims!!” Another crime victim, the mother of a murdered child, wrote that she’s “not even sure why this department exists.” She couldn't get anyone at Ogg’s prosecutor's office to respond to her about the status of the case despite “texting, emailing and calling for days.” So, she finally called the defense attorney—the lawyer representing the person accused of killing her child—and that lawyer explained to her what was happening in her case.
A newly released feature on the job site Glassdoor ranks offices against their counterparts, and it’s not going well for Ogg, as the office ranks “below industry average” overall as well as the sub-categories of “culture and values” and “senior management”. Moreover, only 16% of current and former employees would recommend the office to new applicants.