Theresa Caballero
Attorney at Law
300 E. Main St., Suite 1136
El Paso, TX 79901
915.565.3550/562.5250 fax
January 18, 2010
Ms. Jo Anne Bernal
County Attorney
500 E. San Antonio St.
El Paso, TX 79901
Re: Debate on Dr. Paul Shrode, El Paso County Medical Examiner
Dear Ms. Bernal:
The issue of El Paso County Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Shrode, his continuing viability, if any, as a credible witness and his lying on his resume and in court about his credentials have become a matter of public discussion. Your office, by and through your employee, assistant county attorney Bruce Yetter, called Dr. Shrode to the stand in a jury trial wherein I represented the mother. Through answers elicited by my cross-examination, your witness, Dr. Shrode, admitted that he did not possess a law degree as he had listed on his resume, and as he had testified to under oath, in open court, on the record. Mr. Yetter personally handed Dr. Shrode’s false resume to the Court and had it admitted into evidence to be given to the jury.
As the County Attorney by appointment only (by a three to two vote, no election), as head of the office that put Dr. Shrode on the stand as a witness when he admitted to having put false information on his resume, as advisor to Dr. Shrode’s employer, El Paso County Commissioner’s Court, as legal counsel to Human Resources that should have but did not check Dr. Shrode’s credentials, as employer to assistant county attorney Holly Lytle who had a part in the selection of Dr. Shrode, as a person subject to the El Paso Ethics Commission, as a person seeking to advise such Commission and as a public official who has taken the public position that Dr. Shrode claiming to have credentials that he does not have is nothing but “puffery,” I invite you to a debate on the issue of El Paso Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Shrode. As we are the two main protagonists in this matter with diametrically opposing opinions on the applicable law, on the ethics and on what is in the best interests of this community regarding Dr. Paul Shrode as Medical Examiner, I challenge you to join me in writing competing op-ed pieces on the issue. Should you accept the challenge, I would ask that you join me in requesting of Mr. Edgren of the El Paso Times that he publish the pieces so that the community gets the benefit of both of our views on this most important of matters.
Please respond in writing to my address by Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Or you may call 241.8418. I look forward to this debate.
Sincerely,
Theresa Caballero
Attorney at Law
300 E. Main St., Suite 1136
El Paso, TX 79901
915.565.3550/562.5250 fax
January 18, 2010
Ms. Jo Anne Bernal
County Attorney
500 E. San Antonio St.
El Paso, TX 79901
Re: Debate on Dr. Paul Shrode, El Paso County Medical Examiner
Dear Ms. Bernal:
The issue of El Paso County Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Shrode, his continuing viability, if any, as a credible witness and his lying on his resume and in court about his credentials have become a matter of public discussion. Your office, by and through your employee, assistant county attorney Bruce Yetter, called Dr. Shrode to the stand in a jury trial wherein I represented the mother. Through answers elicited by my cross-examination, your witness, Dr. Shrode, admitted that he did not possess a law degree as he had listed on his resume, and as he had testified to under oath, in open court, on the record. Mr. Yetter personally handed Dr. Shrode’s false resume to the Court and had it admitted into evidence to be given to the jury.
As the County Attorney by appointment only (by a three to two vote, no election), as head of the office that put Dr. Shrode on the stand as a witness when he admitted to having put false information on his resume, as advisor to Dr. Shrode’s employer, El Paso County Commissioner’s Court, as legal counsel to Human Resources that should have but did not check Dr. Shrode’s credentials, as employer to assistant county attorney Holly Lytle who had a part in the selection of Dr. Shrode, as a person subject to the El Paso Ethics Commission, as a person seeking to advise such Commission and as a public official who has taken the public position that Dr. Shrode claiming to have credentials that he does not have is nothing but “puffery,” I invite you to a debate on the issue of El Paso Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Shrode. As we are the two main protagonists in this matter with diametrically opposing opinions on the applicable law, on the ethics and on what is in the best interests of this community regarding Dr. Paul Shrode as Medical Examiner, I challenge you to join me in writing competing op-ed pieces on the issue. Should you accept the challenge, I would ask that you join me in requesting of Mr. Edgren of the El Paso Times that he publish the pieces so that the community gets the benefit of both of our views on this most important of matters.
Please respond in writing to my address by Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Or you may call 241.8418. I look forward to this debate.
Sincerely,
Theresa Caballero
on January 18, 2010, 6:03 pm
Pretty funny editorial this weekend by Chris Lopez. I guess they believe their own lies after so many years of writing their own stories in the EPT!
I'm sure they went down there to, wink wink and let the Times know that Schode was a "good guy" so you need to lay off him; the typical El Paso way. Good for the Times in letting them know that good guy or not the guy lied on his resume and there are consequences to lying (At least for us normal folk)!!
I mean what is not "news" about the HIGHEST paid county employee lied to get his job!! I wonder if his $250,000 includes his health and retirement benefits? I'm sure you can add another 50k if you include those which brings us to $300,000 of our tax payer money and the paper needs to "lay off"? Give me a break.
Hard to imagine there are those with ego's so large (Escobar, Bernal, Esparza and the rest of the ilk) that they will stand by a guy that has committed perjury how many times? Last time I checked when you put your hand on the bible and swear to tell the truth...... and then lie, that is perjury. So where are the charges???!!??? El Paso is Mexico junior. The corruption here is beyond our wildest imagination. In fact I think El Paso is more corrupt than Mexico because Mexicans pretty much acknowledge their government is corrupt and in El Paso we pretend it is not. This sh** wouldn't last five minutes in any REAL city in the United States. If Schrode worked for the City of Austin he would be gone in 5 seconds and every politician this side of the Mississippi would be distancing themselves from him.
Elect TC and end the days of "good guys" and may the RULE OF LAW PREVAIL!!
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