Should Delaware County Sheriff Thomas E. Mills and the Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup be impeached and removed from office for their office's role in Barbara O'Sullivan's case?

I have written on this blog about the lawsuit filed by Barbara O'Sullivan against Deputy Sheriff of Delaware County Derek Bowie for intentional assault and battery upon her with the use of a police vehicle that, according to the lawsuit, happened on September 5, 2014.


I also wrote about that incident right on that day, September 5, 2014, as accounted to me by the still shaken victim.


Since the day of the incident, September 5, 2014, Derek Bowie filed criminal charges against Barbara O'Sullivan, her daughter and even the dog that lived in the house, accusing the dog of biting Derek Bowie and inflicting upon him serious bodily injuries, specifically, numbing of his fingers, according to Derek Bowie's testimony that he delivered while being in uniform, and in possession of a Taser gun and a pistol.  Obviously, the alleged numb fingers did not prevent Officer Bowie from having access to deadly weapons.


Yesterday, an interesting public document came into my possession.


It is a statement of Derek Bowie dated September 6, 2014, one day after the incident, where Derek Bowie acknowledges that an incident occurred and that he may have struck Barbara O'Sullivan with his vehicle, but, of course, he blames the victim.


Nevertheless, as of September 6, 2014, in an official statement of which Delaware County Sheriff's Department must be aware, a police officer of the Delaware County Sheriff's Department made a statement that he was involved in a motor vehicle accident, let's say, that resulted in an injury to a woman.


Yet, the Delaware County Sheriff made no efforts whatsoever to take Derek Bowie off the case investigating and prosecuting the victim and her daughter.


Instead, the Sheriff's Department allowed Derek Bowie not only to press charges against the victim and her daughter, but to obtain arrest warrants against them and execute them under the circumstances that may suggest that he sought to get both women and their dog out of the house to search the house for the tablet as evidence of his wrongdoing.  In his statement of September 6, 2014 Derek Bowie actually acknowledges that Barbara O'Sullivan was videotaping him from the time she opened the door to him that day.


Even though the Sheriff's Department's cars are or are supposed to be equipped with videotaping equipment, and despite the fact that Derek Bowie stated to Barbara O'Sullivan that he was in fact videotaping her, no such videotapes were submitted by the prosecution in the felony hearing of Barbara O'Sullivan brought against her on charges pressed against by Derek Bowie.


I understand that Derek Bowie used his position of power to race to the court ahead of his victim to press criminal charges against before she sues him, and the Delaware County Sheriff's Department, fully aware of what happened, allowed this abomination of justice to proceed.


Moreover, the Delaware County Sheriff's Department engaged in harassment and bullying against me as Barbara O'Sullivan's counsel, invented on the spot a "policy" of searching attorney files in order for me to visit Barbara O'Sullivan in jail, something that no other attorney in this county has experienced, and some sources out of the Delaware County Sheriff's Department leaked unofficial information to the press and television bad-mouthing Barbara O'Sullivan, her daughter, providing mug-shots and causing a wave of hatred on Facebook against both women, because people assumed that these two women were responsible for the officer being hurt and for the dog being hurt.


Officer Bowie then dared to file a complaint even against the dog, which could result in a forced euthanasia.  Luckily, the complaint was dismissed, but without prejudice, which means it can be brought back.


It is apparent that the Delaware County Sheriff's Department has a policy allowing their officers to handle cases where they are involved as witnesses and, possibly, defendants.


Derek Bowie admitted to backing in a car into a human being on September 6, 2014, and then tried to discredit his victim and was allowed to do so, by the Delaware County Sheriff's Department and the Delaware County District Attorney's office, through criminal prosecution against the victim, arrest of the victim and her daughter that Derek Bowie himself carried out, detention of both Barbara O'Sullivan and her daughter in jail of the victim, and by grievous abuse of a dog taken from the victim's house.


It is also apparent that the Sheriff's Department might not have any control over his officers since not one, but two unofficial press-releases were made in Barbara O'Sullivan's case, while the Delaware County Sheriff's Department did not make any official press releases on that case.  


It is apparent that Derek Bowie was building his own media campaign to discredit his victim, and the Delaware County Sheriff's Department, as well as the Delaware County District Attorney, instead of investigating and prosecuting Derek Bowie, turned the power of the state against Derek Bowie's victim, obviously protecting their own.


The Sheriff and the District Attorney are both elected positions.  Both the Sheriff and the District Attorney ran for office assuring the public that they will make it safe.


Instead, they are allowing an officer who was involved in striking a woman with a police vehicle while she was videotaping the officer, to investigate and criminally prosecute his victim and her immediate family member, cause the victim to be arrested and detained, cause her financial losses,  leak information to the press to discredit his victim and deprive her of a fair trial.


It has gotten to the point that the officer nearly succeeded in having the dog taken out of the victim's household, the dog that may be the witness to his misconduct, adjudicated a dangerous dog and forcibly euthanized.


Can the Delaware County Sheriff and the Delaware County District Attorney be trusted with protection of the people from criminals or should they immediately be impeached for attempting to help suspects in uniforms use the power of the state to intimidate and prosecute their victims?