Michael Morris – In Focus
Well it was inevitable that the Alamogordo Daily News would begin a campaign to rehabilitate prosecutor Sandra Grisham. Not surprisingly Michael Shinabery, who had been relegated to covering people who did not come back to jail after furloughs and the extension of the county burn ban after his “Tales from Gobbler’s Knob” accounts of the Cody Posey case sparked public outrage, was tasked with the job. Recalcitrant in her position that Posey was not abused Grisham was allowed to avoid questions about the testimony she procured from Wade Myers M.D. and Juan Sosa PhD that eventually led District Judge James Waylon Counts to acknowledge at sentencing had misled him on issues material at every stage of the trial. It is this kind of client-side reporting that is responsible for Grisham talking at all after hiding her face from cameras after the sentencing. Is this sort of unquestioning press release journalism of any use at all?