After routing Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón on Tuesday night, Nathan Hochman says he plans to review high-profile cases and undo many of the incumbent's policies on Day 1.
On his first day in office four years ago, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón issued a slate of progressive edicts that many prosecutors in his office said handcuffed them in the fight against crime. When Nathan Hochman takes Gascón's seat in less than 30 days, he has vowed to untie those same prosecutors' hands, rolling back his predecessor's policies.
Under those policies, the district attorney's office filed misdemeanors half as often as it did under ex-Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, according to a prior Times analysis. The policy shift under Hochman will affect only jurisdictions that don't have their own city prosecutors to handle misdemeanor cases. “I’m not going to do what Gascón has done with many of these people and just pretend their crime has not happened...
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