Frank Stoltze covers criminal justice for the LAist newsroom.
'Opportunity of a lifetime': Nathan Hochman to be sworn in Tuesday as LA County district attorneyHochman has said the death penalty, for one, is back on the table, even though Gov. Gavin Newsom has placed a moratorium on executions in California while he is in office.Hochman is a former federal prosecutor who once ran the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. For more than two decades, he’s been a criminal defense attorney.
At the same time, Hochman said he won’t return the office to the days when it sought to impose draconian sentences. Many prosecutors opposed Gascón’s more lenient approach to defendants. Others said Gascón retaliated against those who challenged him. Gascón also populated his top staff with former public defenders, which irked many prosecutors.
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