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In the last season much drama stems from whether Walt will be fired for his various apparent misdeeds. I'm not familiar with the American legal system, but Walt is an elected Sheriff - we see him elected in early seasons. Doesn't that mean that he cannot actually be fired? As I understand it, as an elected official the Sheriff is answerable only to the ballot box, nobody else has authority over him?
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In the last season much drama stems from whether Walt will be fired for his various apparent misdeeds. I'm not familiar with the American legal system, but Walt is an elected Sheriff - we see him elected in early seasons. Doesn't that mean that he cannot actually be fired? As I understand it, as an elected official the Sheriff is answerable only to the ballot box, nobody else has authority over him?him?
**Usually, even elected officials are subject to removal depending on whatever is outlined in the document allowing them to take office. If we can use a real life impeachment of a Wyoming sheriff in 2014 as precedent, it would actually be county commissioners who raise a complaint to the Governor of Wyoming, who then would recommend Walt’s removal, almost completely bypassing the court system. We see something like this when the Mayor politely asks Walt for his resignation, though this is obviously a request and not forcibly removing him because Walt refuses. It is also possible Absaroka County has a morality clause requires that the sheriff be removed from office if they are convicted of a crime, but Walt is being sued in civil court (essentially a system that handles lawsuits by regular people, not the government prosecuting crime), which means it may not apply. However, even if losing the trial doesn’t immediately result in being thrown out of office, and Walt losing his things in a civil trial was not bad enough, it probably be public enough to catch the attention of the Governor who would quickly have Walt thrown out of office anyway. To answer your question in a sentence, it’s not guaranteed he’d be fired, but his career would be done anyway, and it’s all but guaranteed that anyone with the power to fire him would catch word and throw him out anyway.
**Usually, even elected officials are subject to removal depending on whatever is outlined in the document allowing them to take office. If we can use a real life impeachment of a Wyoming sheriff in 2014 as precedent, it would actually be county commissioners who raise a complaint to the Governor of Wyoming, who then would recommend Walt’s removal, almost completely bypassing the court system. We see something like this when the Mayor politely asks Walt for his resignation, though this is obviously a request and not forcibly removing him because Walt refuses. It is also possible Absaroka County has a morality clause requires that the sheriff be removed from office if they are convicted of a crime, but Walt is being sued in civil court (essentially a system that handles lawsuits by regular people, not the government prosecuting crime), which means it may not apply. However, even if losing the trial doesn’t immediately result in being thrown out of office, and Walt losing his things in a civil trial was not bad enough, it probably be public enough to catch the attention of the Governor who would quickly have Walt thrown out of office anyway. To answer your question in a sentence, it’s not guaranteed he’d be fired, but his career would be done anyway, and it’s all but guaranteed that anyone with the power to fire him would catch word and throw him out anyway.
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*** In fairness, that's all only a decade or two of jail time, which is actually smaller than the usual minimum sentence for the crimes he and the deputies manage to rack up in a given episode.
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*** In fairness, that's all only a decade or two of jail time, which is actually smaller than the usual minimum sentence for the crimes he and the deputies manage to rack up in a given episode.episode.
In the last season much drama stems from whether Walt will be fired for his various apparent misdeeds. I'm not familiar with the American legal system, but Walt is an elected Sheriff - we see him elected in early seasons. Doesn't that mean that he cannot actually be fired? As I understand it, as an elected official the Sheriff is answerable only to the ballot box, nobody else has authority over him?
In the last season much drama stems from whether Walt will be fired for his various apparent misdeeds. I'm not familiar with the American legal system, but Walt is an elected Sheriff - we see him elected in early seasons. Doesn't that mean that he cannot actually be fired? As I understand it, as an elected official the Sheriff is answerable only to the ballot box, nobody else has authority over him?
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** Lock him up, probably not. Cost him his job, probably. Also [[spoiler: if it's a paid hit, presumably whoever shelled out the money isn't going to be too happy with Walt digging into it.]]
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** Lock him up, probably not. Cost him his job, probably. Also [[spoiler: if it's a paid hit, presumably whoever shelled out the money isn't going to be too happy with Walt digging into it.]]]]
** He'd be on the hook for the assault that the beating he received was self-defense against, as well as an accessory for the part where he covered it up and probably obstruction for intentionally sabotaging the investigation at several points.
*** In fairness, that's all only a decade or two of jail time, which is actually smaller than the usual minimum sentence for the crimes he and the deputies manage to rack up in a given episode.
** He'd be on the hook for the assault that the beating he received was self-defense against, as well as an accessory for the part where he covered it up and probably obstruction for intentionally sabotaging the investigation at several points.
*** In fairness, that's all only a decade or two of jail time, which is actually smaller than the usual minimum sentence for the crimes he and the deputies manage to rack up in a given episode.
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So let's cover what we know. [[spoiler: Walt's wife is murdered. (Possibly a paid hit, but that's not important right now.) Walt tracked the guy down in Denver, but he and a few friends of his damn near beat Walt to death. So Henry goes to Denver, finds the guy and tells him he's a dead man, then sends Hector, a local thug from the rez, to handle it. But Hector is one of those spiritual hoods, believeing that "only the Great Spirit should decide who lives and who dies", and just kicked the guy's ass and took some of his teeth to give to Henry. Henry tells Walt his wife's killer is dead.]] My question: If the entire truth comes out, how much trouble is Walt in? He didn't know of the plot, and only found out after the fact. There's really nothing to lock him up for, right?
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So let's cover what we know. [[spoiler: Walt's wife is murdered. (Possibly a paid hit, but that's not important right now.) Walt tracked the guy down in Denver, but he and a few friends of his damn near beat Walt to death. So Henry goes to Denver, finds the guy and tells him he's a dead man, then sends Hector, a local thug from the rez, to handle it. But Hector is one of those spiritual hoods, believeing that "only the Great Spirit should decide who lives and who dies", and just kicked the guy's ass and took some of his teeth to give to Henry. Henry tells Walt his wife's killer is dead.]] My question: If the entire truth comes out, how much trouble is Walt in? He didn't know of the plot, and only found out after the fact. There's really nothing to lock him up for, right?right?
** Lock him up, probably not. Cost him his job, probably. Also [[spoiler: if it's a paid hit, presumably whoever shelled out the money isn't going to be too happy with Walt digging into it.]]
** Lock him up, probably not. Cost him his job, probably. Also [[spoiler: if it's a paid hit, presumably whoever shelled out the money isn't going to be too happy with Walt digging into it.]]
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So let's cover what we know. [[spoiler: Walt's wife is murdered. (Possibly a paid hit, but that's not important right now.) Walt tracked the guy down in Denver, but he and a few friends of his damn near beat Walt to death. So Henry goes to Denver, finds the guy and tells him he's a dead man, then sends Hector, a local thug from the rez, to handle it. But Hector is one of those spiritual hoods, believeing that "only the Great Spirit should decide who lives and who dies", and just kicked the guy's ass and took some of his teeth to give to Henry. Henry tells Walt his wife's killer is dead.]] My question: If the entire truth comes out, how much trouble is Walt in? He didn't know of the plot, and only found out after the fact. There's really nothing to lock him up for, right?
