Police groups call on Travis County DA Jose Garza to resign over misconduct
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Key Points:
- Attorneys for Austin Police officer Chance Bretches have filed a motion to dismiss his aggravated assault case, alleging prosecutors in DA Jose Garza’s office withheld key evidence and engaged in undisclosed communications with city officials about potentially charging the city for defective police equipment used during the 2020 George Floyd protests.
- The defense claims these "secret meetings" about indicting the city, which never materialized, should have been disclosed as exculpatory evidence under Texas laws like the Michael Morton Act and the Brady rule, arguing that the DA’s failure to do so violated Bretches’s constitutional rights.
- Prominent law enforcement groups, including CLEAT and the Austin Police Retired Officers Association, have publicly called for DA Garza’s resignation, accusing him
