“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.” James Madison
In a stunning moment during which he was permitted to vote against further inquiry into the virtually certain probability he pumped Modesto Irrigation District (MID) surface water onto property outside the district, Larry Byrd at least temporarily ended further investigation into his irrigation practices on the AB La Grange Ranch, where he is partners with his brother Tim and Tyler (Ty) Angle.
Byrd was voting against a motion to continue fact-finding after MID Director Chris Ott said he favored further inquiry into Byrd’s irrigation practices because, “We don’t know enough.” Ott almost certainly meant that MID did not and still does not know how much MID water Byrd put onto his out-of-district almond trees. That he must have applied MID surface water to those same trees was established after a long and granular investigation into Byrd’s irrigation practices concluded he could not have irrigated the orchard with groundwater, as he had previously claimed…