redstate.com
A Los Angeles County jury found that George Gascon had engaged in retaliatory conduct against a Deputy District Attorney who pushed back against his policies and awarded the plaintiff, Shawn Randolph, $1.5 million in a verdict announced late Monday afternoon.
Randolph was the lead prosecutor in the office’s juvenile division and was “reassigned” to the parole division after she raised objections to Gascon’s blanket policy to not charge a juvenile as an adult, no exceptions, which he announced immediately upon taking the oath of office in December 2020. As RedState reported at the time:
In a speech following his swearing-in, Gascon spelled out exactly what is changing and when – his office won’t seek the death penalty ever, no more juveniles being charged as adults, no more use of gang or gun enhancements to put violent criminals away for a longer time, no more bail, resentencing of up to 20,000 convicted offenders (with hundreds possibly being released as soon as tomorrow), and more. Despite his years as an LAPD officer, he believes that these measures will “break the multigenerational cycles of violence, trauma, and arrest“:
Randolph’s attorneys say Randolph told supervisors that Gascon’s directives “violated laws pertaining to victims’ rights and would lead prosecutors to file inaccurate charges in court due to limitations he placed on the types of felonies that could be charged against juveniles.”
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