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Feb. 25, 2022
Fired prosecutor accuses Santa Clara County of retaliation
Plaintiff Daniel Chung said he expressed his personal opinion in a newspaper editorial and was fired because he disagreed with the DA.
A former prosecutor has sued the Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, alleging Rosen violated his First Amendment rights by firing him after his opinion piece was published in the San Jose Mercury News referring to a surge of racism and violence toward Asian Americans during the pandemic.
In the article, plaintiff Daniel Chung criticized a "growing movement in California to neuter the effects of serious and violent felony convi...
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