Typical uninformed scaremongering from our overmatched AG
@JasonMiyaresVA
. If he was competent at all he’d know that prosecutorial outcomes are constrained by evidence, and there are different evidentiary standards for arrest vs. successful prosecution. 1/3

I guess in

More lying to the people from
@JasonMiyaresVA
. Probably just blowing off steam after his shameful effort to weaponize the trauma of victims in service of his failed power grab in the General Assembly. https://wapo.st/3IluuFQ 3/3

Virginia Politics

Virginia’s self-styled ‘top cop’ thwarted in bid to expand powers on violent crime

State lawmakers stalled a bill that would broaden Attorney General Jason Miyares’s authority to prosecute crimes

By Justin Jouvenal
February 28, 2022 at 3:48 p.m. EST

Virginia’s new Republican Attorney General blasted the state’s liberal prosecutors on the campaign trail, saying they weren’t seeking stiff enough sentences and were failing to charge certain crimes. Jason Miyares made a bold promise: if they didn’t enforce the law, he would.

The pitch was central to his platform to approach the job as a tough-on-crime “top cop,” but his bid to expand the limited powers of the attorney general’s office to address violent offenses was dealt a serious setback Monday. ... A Senate committee controlled by Democrats put an indefinite hold on a bill that would have allowed the attorney general’s office to prosecute sex assaults against children, meaning the legislation is all but certain to die this session.

The legislation was already a scaled-back version of a bill that would have given the office broad powers to prosecute violent crimes. The defeat means Miyares, who called himself the “new sheriff in town,” won’t have critical tools to tackle a top priority — public safety — in the way he had set out to do.

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In February, Miyares’s office withdrew support from a bid by two men to have their convictions in the killing a police officer overturned. The move was supported by Miyares’s Democratic predecessor, Mark R. Herring.

By Justin Jouvenal
Justin Jouvenal covers courts and policing in Fairfax County and across the nation. He joined The Post in 2009. Twitter https://twitter.com/jjouvenal

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares slams "far-left prosecutors" Descano and Biberaj

by Nick Minock Monday, February 14th 2022

RICHMOND, Va. (7News) — As he nears his first month in office, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares sat down with 7News for a wide-ranging interview on what Virginia residents can expect from him over the next four years.

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And he’s also going after two Northern Virginia Commonwealth Attorneys: Buta Biberaj in Loudoun County and Steve Descano in Fairfax County.

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