John jones trial

They want the headline to be that John Jones is being charged with child pornography and not that the sexual assault charges were finally dismissed after a senior district judge found that there was no reasonable basis to believe a sexual assault occurred," Muery said. Jones was fired from DPS immediately after his arrest on July 30, , over the sexual assault charge.

He contends it was consensual sex; the woman says Jones raped her. Intelligence experts warned that any type of misbehavior, criminal or not, can leave top officials open to compromise and puts Texas secrets at risk. Jones, who is married, admits that his actions compromised him. Attorney's Office in Miami, which investigated public officials and law enforcement. Infidelity can compromise people who work in intelligence because it makes them vulnerable to blackmail, Weinstein said.

Although that doesn't appear to have been the situation in Jones' case, Jones should have been aware that he was putting himself in a position that could have compromised himself or the work he oversaw, Weinstein said. Frank Fernandez, a police practices expert from the U. Department of Justice, said when an intelligence official is compromised, the information they protect is compromised.

However, the information he oversaw was not compromised because he did not share any classified information with the woman, he said.

Jones added that he has never heard of anyone losing a DPS job due to infidelity and he does not believe he should have lost his job over it. Steve McCraw, DPS director, fired Jones because he lost confidence in Jones' ability to effectively lead the intelligence and counterterrorism division, according to a July 30, , letter.

The letter does not go into further detail. If Jones was fired over infidelity, it would be the "height of hypocrisy," Muery said. Navy SEAL. It doesn't appear as though his daily life has been drastically altered following the case: without reports to the contrary, one can assume that he still resides in Potsdam, New York.

But his involvement with Hillary's case isn't over, even though Hillary was acquitted in , according to The New York Times. Jones was briefly a suspect in the murder as well, though he didn't receive nearly the same level of scrutiny that Hillary did. And that's an important part of the lawsuit Hillary has since filed against many individuals involved in his case. Lawrence prosecutors, local police, St.

Lawrence County. The lawsuit alleged that Hillary's civil rights had been violated during his trial. The judge dismissed most of the claims, but some are still ongoing. There were many similarities in Hillary and Jones: they were both romantically connected to Phillips' mother and they were both allegedly seen in proximity to Phillips before the murder.

But Hillary was black and Jones was white, and Hillary was focused on as a suspect with much more intensity. In , Hillary had also alleged that he'd been harassed by Jones in , which was reported by NNY Jones said he had had a "civil" conversation with Hillary in front of Hillary's home, but Hillary did not categorize it that way.