This past weekend, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has seemingly signaled that he was working to secure a pardon for Daniel Perry after he ended up being convicted in a case involving self-defense.
Perry, who ended up shooting and killing a man that was carrying an AK-47 while attending a Black Lives Matter protest back in 2020, was officially found guilty of murder by a jury this past Friday in Texas. The jury found Perry not guilty of the aggravated assault charge that he was also saddled with.
At first, Perry was not charged with any crime whatsoever in the wake of the incident, but in 2021, District Attorney Jose Garza came into office and chose to go back and prosecute Perry. Garza is just one of a large number of district attorneys who had their campaign mostly funded by George Soros, a billionaire Democrat megadonor.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” stated Abbott in a release. “Unlike the President or some other states, the Texas Constitution limits the Governor’s pardon authority to only act on a recommendation by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.”
“Texas law DOES allow the Governor to request the Board of Pardons and Paroles to determine if a person should be granted a pardon,” Abbott went on. “I have made that request and instructed the Board to expedite its review. I look forward to approving the Board’s pardon recommendation as soon as it hits my desk. Additionally, I have already prioritized reining in rogue District Attorneys, and the Texas Legislature is working on laws to achieve that goal.”
Abbott’s choice to start targeting “rogue District Attorneys” takes place after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent law enforcement officials to take down a woke Soros prosecutor from power in the state — the only time that one of these Soros-backed prosecutors has been removed from office by a governor.
I am working as swiftly as Texas law allows regarding the pardon of Sgt. Perry. pic.twitter.com/HydwdzneMU
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 8, 2023
As the lead investigating detective in the case, David Fugitt stated in an affidavit from 2021 that Garza acted in the case with “criminal behavior.”
“I had several conversations with the District Attorney’s Office regarding the presentation of exculpatory evidence related to Daniel Perry,” stated Fugitt. “It became clear to me that the District Attorney’s Office did not want to present evidence to the grand jury that would be exculpatory to Daniel Perry.”
“On more than one occasion I was directed by the Travis County Attorney’s Office to remove exculpatory information that I had intended to present to the grand jury during my testimony,” he stated. “Of my original 158 slide powerpoint presentation, the presentation was reduced to 56 slides with almost all of the exculpatory evidence ordered removed. I felt like I did not have any other options but to comply with their orders.”
Fugitt stated that Garza’s order to ban exculpatory evidence from being shown during the case “is when the conduct of the District Attorney’s Office [went] from highly unethical behavior to criminal behavior.”
