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Criminal

May 12, 2011

Prosecutors Lose Gang Injunction Ruling

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas must give alleged gang members hearings and other due process rights before enforcing anti-gang injunctions against them.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas must give alleged gang members hearings and other due process rights before enforcing anti-gang injunctions against them.


U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank held that Rackauckas and the Orange Police Department had deprived the individuals "of their constitutionally protected liberty interests withou...

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