The DA Election Contest - Part 2

It appears - although votes still have to be tallied - that George Gascón, who is challenging incumbent LA County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, is winning. As of this morning, Gascón has 53.8% of the vote.* 

As we noted in prior postings, "Lacey's predecessor as DA brought a criminal case against a UC faculty member for a tragic lab accident that should have been dealt with as a civil case. It was hoped that when Lacey was first elected she would take a different approach to that matter... rather than pursue the criminal case, which at one point sought to charge the entire Board of Regents. Instead, she went ahead with the case as it stood. UCLA defended the faculty member and eventually the case largely dissipated and was settled. But in the course of the DA's efforts, another faculty member was charged in a totally-unrelated case on spurious grounds that were eventually dropped. It appeared that the DA's strategy at the time was somehow to hold the second faculty member as a kind of hostage to push for some kind of deal on the lab case. If that was the strategy, it failed." 

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*https://results.lavote.net/text-results/4193

**http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-da-election-contest.html. See also: http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-da-contest-will-likely-continue.html; http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-da-contest-will-likely-continue_18.html.