In a potential violation of state law, then-Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins last year sent sensitive files from the DA’s office to a fellow
Mission Local shared the details of the situation — but not the names of the individuals involved — with San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. He was unambiguous in his assessment.
Garcetti, who served 32 years in the Los Angeles DA’s office, and led it from 1992 to 2000, said that if something like this occurred under his watch he would strongly consider “some type of suspension or even termination.”On Oct. 3 Jenkins and Chief Assistant District Attorney Ana Gonzalez sent a letter
Jenkins’ office did not respond to queries from Mission Local regarding what statutes it would potentially use to charge Gray. It did not specify this to Gray either, nor to his attorney Matt Gonzalez. Gonzalez denied that Gray had removed or disseminated any filesThe dichotomy here did not escape San Francisco legal observers.
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