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Criminal

Mar. 24, 2021

LA County names special prosecutor for officer involved shootings

At the request of District Attorney George Gascon the board of supervisors appointed former federal prosecutor Lawrence S. Middleton.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved without comment Tuesday a request from District Attorney George Gascon to appoint former federal prosecutor Lawrence S. Middleton as a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of police misconduct, including four fatal police shooting cases for which the DA’s predecessor declined to charge officers.

Middleton, who was part of the team of lawyers who prosecuted the federal civ...

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