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Government

Mar. 9, 2010

Former DA Now Polices Public Officials

Thirty-five years later, ethics are still front and center for Trask, who retired at the beginning of 2007 after nearly a quarter-century as the county's top prosecutor to become special counsel for Best Best & Krieger in Riverside.

By Jason W. Armstrong

Daily Journal Staff Writer

RIVERSIDE - Grover Trask got his first big ethics lesson as a newbie prosecutor with the Riverside County District Attorney's office.

It was a theft case in which an informant was the main witness against the defendant. But Trask said when the defendant testified, he seemed more honest than the informant.

The jury convicted the man, but Trask couldn't slee...

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