Government,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 31, 2020
LA deputy DAs get hearing to argue legality of Gascón's orders
The prosecutors have said they have been forced to choose between disobeying the law and their moral conscience or disobeying the head of the office. In several cases, they have said judges harangued them as not doing their duty to victims and the public when they made the motions DA George Gascón ordered.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón and the prosecutors suing him claimed victory Wednesday after the deputy DAs association withdrew a temporary restraining order request and were granted a hearing to argue the legality of directives they've been given to stop seeking sentence enhancements for serious crimes.
On behalf of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County, Eric M. George of Browne Ge...
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