Tuesday night, my husband got a call asking if he knew that Bob Hooker had died in a horrible and unexplainable car crash after leaving downtown for home. My husband, a public defense attorney, came into the living room explaining what he heard and sat down in shock.
“I feel like I owe that man my job,” he said to me, while turning on the TV for the local news.
I thought to myself, “Then I guess I owe Bob Hooker for sealing the deal on my return home to Tucson.”
Two years ago, I sat down with my husband and explained (demanded) we return to Tucson. I knew it wasn’t an easy task for him. Arizona has no reciprocity for attorneys practicing in other states. He’d have to study and take the bar.
He started studying for the bar (even while working full-time and at one point heading up three big cases–a murder trial and two molestations), and he kicked the bar exam’s ass. After already working more than 10 years in public defense, he crossed his fingers and hoped he could still do what he loved in Tucson: work in juvenile court, as crazy as that sounds. He loves it. Go figure. The week we drove our valuables down and put everything in storage, he got a call from Bob Hooker and Bob Hirsh asking him to come in for an interview.
A cousin warned him to dress it up for the Bobs, as they are called, referring to the uptown atmosphere the two brought with them when Hooker took over as head of the Pima County Office of Public Defense. A few days after the interview, Hooker called Tony and left him a message asking him if he was ready to work for them.
When people poke fun at lawyers, I always go with the flow and join in on the fun with a little quip like, “Yeah, I’m married to one of those.” But I don’t know of many lawyers that actually fit those lawyer jokes.
I’ve hung out with many attorneys, most of them public defenders, because of the husband. I found them to be good people I understood. Not unlike newspaper folk, they sometimes drink a lot, throw some not-so-nice words across a bar floor, and love to work in an island with their own kind, because most people just don’t like them.
Public defense attorneys are not liked by the public (because they get guilty people released from jail); judges can’t stand them, especially if they are aggressive and fight hard for their clients; prosecutors hate them, especially if they are aggressive and fight hard for their clients; and county governments hate them, because take up a substantial part of the budget. However, it’s a crucial component of our legal system: Indigent clients are entitled to good legal representation. All of that always made me like them even more.
I remembered reading about the Bobs before the move, interested in how they were credited with improving public defense. I read about how Bob Hooker was one of the first attorneys active in the Sanctuary Mmovement, and that he could have made a lot of money in his career, but instead, he took on the job of heading the public defense office.
Yesterday was difficult for public defenders and all who admired Bob Hooker. They’d suddently lost a leader whoreally championed what they all believe in–the Constitution. A juvenile court staff member created a blog for folks to go online to share stories about Hooker.
What happens next? Will Hirsh step in to fill Hooker’s shoes? Pima County administration has yet to make any formal announcement. Hopefully it will be someone my husband and a few of his co-workers call “true believers,” like Hirsh, like Hooker and like many of the other public defense attorneys I have come to know from the inside out. Despite opinions some have regarding lawyers, these PDs are under the spell of what they may think of as a calling. They are good people.
This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2008.
Now that Pima County Public Defender Robert Hooker has been glorified by his colleagues and sanctified by the local left wing press, it’s time to take a deeper look at Hooker’s own involvement in creating the Pima County Pro-Mexican, Left Wing, Open Border Policy that empowered the man who killed him.
Alexander Rodriquez, the street drag racer who killed Hooker on April Fool’s day, is a well known Tucson “gang banger” and long time associate of Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia, her group Derechos Humanos, and racist Hispanic hate groups like MEChA and La Raza.
On June 03, 2006, under the direction of Assistant Tucson Police Chief Kathleen Robinson, Alexander and his brother Arturo committed a series of assaults against me while I lawfully demonstrated in front of the Mexican Consulate. I defended myself and was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted for assault by Municipal Court Judge Eugene Hays.
I have the trial transcripts which reveal Arturo’s long term association with MEChA and Alexander’s involvement as an instigator of violence in front of the Mexican Consulate.
In a video recording of the incident Alexander says to Arturo: “Hit him! (Warden) He’s an old man. He can’t do anything!”
Subsequent to the Rodriquez Assault, which successfully prevented the burning of the Mexican flag, Alexander and Arturo were celebrated by Isabel Garcia, who held a rally in support of the pair.
Additionally, Isabel Garcia “coached” both brothers while they testified at trial, right under the nose of Judge Hays. Numerous witnesses have now come forward and the Arizona Bar Association and the FBI are investigating Garcia for Witness Tampering.
Last week, based on my Challenge of Judge Hays for Cause, Judge Hays received an Order of the Court barring him from presiding over any of my future cases. The cases he did preside over are now under appellate review.
As for Hooker: 31 years ago he defended Margo Cowan after her indictment for using federal funds to smuggle Mexican Illegal Aliens into Pima County. Subsequently, Hooker employed Ms. Cowan as an Assistant Pima County Public Defender.
For many years, under Robert Hooker’s watchful eye, both Garcia and Cowan have run amok, blatantly using the resources of their public offices for political purposes, including the promulgation of open border policy in violation of federal law and the violent overthrow of the United States government.
Several days ago Margo Cowan, as the Statutory Agent for The Arizona Border Rights Foundation, was summoned to appear in US District Court as a Defendant in Warden v Garcia, Mecha, KVOA News, Derechos Humanos, The Arizona Border Rights Foundation, etc.
For more than 30 years, Robert Hooker was one of the left wing architects of Pima County Open Border Policy. Now, in an ironic twist of fate, Robert Hooker has been killed by one of Isabel Garcia’s Pendejo Thugs; like the infamous Dr. Frankenstein, Hooker has become a victim of a dark, metastasizing cancer he helped to create.
In the days and weeks ahead, outside reporters will be reporting on a story no local reporter will dare to print.
It will read like the Ken Peasley story, the Pima County Attorney disbarred for falsifying evidence in a capital murder case, written by Jeffrey Toobin for The New Yorker. It will be The Real Story of Robert Hooker and the Pendejo Thug Who Killed Him.
This story will reveal the shocking connection between of Pima County left wing open border politics and right wing economic exploitation, the out-of-control violent crime rate perpetuated by Mexican Illegals and racist Hispanic hate groups promulgating the violent overthrow of the US government and the financial interests of the legal community which thrives off the escalating crime rates while enriching itself at the expense of the American people…etc.
It will be a very ugly story.
Roy Warden, Publisher
Common Sense II
881-0535
roywarden@cox.net
so sorry to hear a good man dying. we’ll keep him and his family in our prayers. i hope the example he set will be followed/continued by those in the public defender’s office.