Supreme Tire Slashing Trial Outcome Predictable

We should not really be surprised that the prosecution folded.

Jessica Mc Bride is actually to easy on McCann when she writes:

Deja Vu in the Tire Slashing Case
...It's deja vu all over again.

In 2004, after initially filing 92 felony charges in an alleged election fraud forgery scheme, Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann's office ended up reducing almost all of them to misdemeanors without hope of getting much jail time.
That action had come after an acquittal. McCann's office had alleged the African American Coalition for Empowerment (ACE) had forged absentee ballots in a recall election against County Board Chairman Lee Holloway.

First, a couple words in fairness to McCann's office. Election fraud cases can be extremely difficult to prove. In the case of the tire slashings, the state by necessity had to rely on the testimony of out-of-state operatives who allegedly hadn't all been entirely cooperative on the front end. The prosecution was probably justifiably worried about potential outright acquittals of all, and decided it was better to convict the defendants of something, than nothing. It's hard to argue with that. But the frustrating thing is that McCann's office has been notoriously ineffective in prosecuting election violations overall.

Read her entire post.