Judges and Judiciary,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Criminal
Mar. 23, 2018
Elected DAs shouldn't be so politically motivated
One wishes that the elected district attorney of a county were not so politically motivated as to skirt the ethical rules and make these kinds of false accusations about a well-respected judge and Court of Appeal justices.
Patrick Dixon
Patrick is a former 37-year prosecutor with the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
The recent news report that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas recklessly accused then-Judge Thomas Goethals (now an appellate court justice) of bias and also accused the Court of Appeal of favoritism toward Judge Goethals is both a pathetic attempt to excuse the wholesale violation of defendants' constitutional rights by both the district attorney's office and the sheriff's department and a violation of, if not the letter, then the spirit of the ethical ...
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