Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt held a press conference earlier today Announce allegations In the cold case in 2004.
Attorney General Eric Schmidt announced on Thursday that Alice Weiss was charged with second-degree murder for the death of James Summers, who died in April 2004 in Dittmer, a small town in eastern Missouri. . The allegations were filed on Wednesday.
In a statement, Schmidt said: “We will continue to fight for the families and loved ones of victims of violent crimes with little hope. They have been waiting for years and even decades for justice to be finally done.”
The cold box unit is Established Schmidt published it in December 2020, when a second-degree murder charge was announced in a case in Franklin County in 1986. According to AG’s website:
The cold case team was launched by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt in December 2020. The first case in this group involves a 35-year-old murder charge in Washington, Missouri. The cold case team will continue to cooperate with prosecutors, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders across the state to investigate and possibly prosecute cold case homicides.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt (Eric Schmitt) has been taking the lead in the fight against violent crime in major Missouri cities. In addition to the “cold case team,” Attorney General Schmidt’s “Safer Street Initiative” also filed nearly 600 charges against more than 200 defendants across the state. In addition, the Attorney General’s Special Prosecution Team will regularly assist in handling complex violent crime cases across the state.
At this morning’s press conference, Schmidt, the candidate who will succeed Roy Blunt in the U.S. Senate next year, was also asked about vaccine regulations. His answer has no doubt about the prosecutor general’s position on such measures:
Watch: Missouri Corporation @Eric_Schmitt Tearing up the COVID vaccine regulations
“If someone says that using fear is good, this is what every tyrant and dictator in the history of the world has said is the accumulation, aggregation, and maintenance of power.” pic.twitter.com/s090CJDPj6
— Charlie Huddleston (@_CAHuddleston) August 12, 2021
Yes, if someone says that using fear is good, this is the accumulation, aggregation, and maintenance of power that every tyrant and dictator in the history of the world has said. This is the United States—the freest country in the history of the world—I think we should not allow individual politicians who want to seize power and never give up power to gain power first.
People can make their own decisions. I believe in freedom. I believe in responsibility. People can make these very important decisions on their own. I don’t want to live in a futuristic, dystopian, biomedical security state. As the attorney general, I will do my best to protect the rights of individuals in the state.
Thankfully, as Minister of Justice, he has a A healthy arsenal Enable him to do this.
