District Attorney George Gascon – Page 2

Judge Mitchell, Candidate for LA DA

September 25, 2023 6:27 amSeptember 25, 2023 6:27 am

Judge Craig Mitchell is running for Los Angeles County District Attorney. And – as founder of the Skid Row Running Club – he means it when he says running. The club, founded 11 years ago, meets/runs downtown at least twice...

Los Angeles DA Race: Eric Siddall Joins Gascon Challengers

August 28, 2023 12:28 pm

Long time deputy district attorney Eric Siddall has joined the race to become Los Angeles’ next District Attorney. Siddall, the Vice President of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys for the past decade until he stepped aside last...

LA Supes Leave Gascon Alone After Facilitating the Ouster of Elected Sheriff

June 19, 2023 2:36 amJune 19, 2023 2:37 am

Last summer, by a 4 to 1 vote the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors put a county charter amendment on the ballot that would allow them to fire the sheriff despite his being separately elected to run the independent...

Too Bad There Isn’t a ‘Three Strikes’ Law for DAs: Gascon Goes 0 for 2

March 7, 2023 9:33 amMarch 7, 2023 1:35 pm

A Los Angeles civil jury Monday found that District Attorney George Gascon improperly retaliated against one of his deputies and awarded her $1.5 million in compensatory damages. Shawn Randolph, formerly the DA’s office lead juvenile prosecutor, was shifted from that...