Experience Matters and
So Does Telling the Truth.    
                                                 
David Nelson's opponent claims that he has a "pro plan" if he
is elected state's attorney. Does that plan include some day
actually trying a criminal case?

Despite his claims in ads and letters to voters that he has
"tried over 25 criminal and civil jury trials," the clerks' offices in
the jurisdictions he listed cannot find that he has tried a
single solitary criminal jury trial since he graduated from
law school.

Here's the scorecard of Mr. Phelps's criminal jury trials in the
courthouses we've looked into so far (we're still checking in
Jefferson, Sangamon, and Cook):

      Saline County: zero.
      Williamson County: zero.
      Jackson County: zero.
      Southern District of Illinois (federal court): zero.
      Gallatin County: zero.
      Hardin County: zero.
      White County: zero.
      St. Clair County: zero.

Of course there's nothing shameful about a relative lack of
experience. Everybody has to start somewhere, and some
lawyers go through an entire career without ever trying a
criminal jury trial. 

But what the voters deserve to know is the extent to which a
candidate for state's attorney is willing to pad his record to try
to win an election.

David Nelson has real experience in real criminal cases, over
27 years as a lawyer and judge. That's the kind of experience
that's  needed to go up against the best criminal defense lawyers
where it counts in the courtroom.

And David Nelson has the independence, and the integrity, to
insist on the kind of good police work needed to make a case
that will hold up in court.

Vote for experience, integrity, and independence.

Vote for David Nelson for Saline County State's Attorney in
the Democratic Primary Election on Tuesday, March 16.

  Paid for by the Committee to Elect David Nelson.