WA: Thurston County prosecutor’s office - a source of ridicule and contempt?

The Olympian editorial board is sort of underwhelmed by our prosecutors' recent accomplishments:

Prosecutor’s office is losing credibility

What is going on in the county prosecutor’s office? How can a professional organization such as the prosecutor’s office maintain public confidence in the judicial system when the prosecutors themselves are caught up in one scandal after another?

The latest incident involves Deputy Prosecutor David Soukup, 46, who was recently... charged with drunken driving... The fact that he was prosecuting a DUI case in Thurston County within hours of his own arrest has raised significant ethical questions... Soukup’s arrest is simply the latest in a series of embarrassments for Prosecutor Ed Holm and his staff.

Last month, Thurston County District Court Judge Susan Dubuisson dismissed second-degree criminal trespassing charges against 16 (anti-war) protesters... Judge Dubuisson said deputy prosecutors were guilty of “gross negligence” in their failure to turn over police reports to defendants and their attorneys in a timely fashion...

In October, then-prosecutor William Halstead was arrested at Qwest Field after he allegedly was found in a women’s restroom during a Seahawks game... Halstead resigned last December.

That was one month after a Mason County Superior Court jury found that Holm and his staff discriminated against three former deputy prosecuting attorneys because they were women (resulting in a) $1.52 million jury award...

Where’s the accountability for these serious lapses of judgment? The county prosecutor’s office should be above reproach not the source of contempt and ridicule from law-abiding citizens and criminals alike. The public is left to wonder whether Prosecutor Ed Holm is capable of leading a moral and professional office.