Top adviser to left-wing California DA charged with nearly a dozen felonies

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday helium has filed charges against 1 of LA County District Attorney George Gascón's apical officials, and her lawyer dismissed the accusations arsenic a "non-starter."

Bonta, a Democrat appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom successful 2021, announced 11 charges against Diana Teran, an adjunct territory attorney. Bonta’s bureau alleges she accessed constabulary serviceman files successful 2018 erstwhile she worked for the LA County Sheriff’s Department and aboriginal improperly utilized that information astatine the DA’s office, which she joined successful 2021.

"No 1 is supra the law," Bonta said successful a statement. "Public officials are called to service the radical and the State of California with integrity and honesty. At the California Department of Justice, we volition proceed to combat for the radical of California and clasp those who interruption the instrumentality accountable." 

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the charges Wednesday. (Loren Elliott/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

James Spertus, Teran’s attorney, said the AG had been secretive astir the case, and helium believed it is simply a "non-starter."

"The lawsuit is conscionable not prosecutable," helium said. "I deliberation it's going to beryllium precise embarrassing for the AG's office. They should person discussed issues much cautiously with radical with knowledge."

He said helium believes the charges are based connected duties Teran had wrong the scope of her employment that progressive the "Brady List," a nationalist database of accusation astir constabulary misconduct allegations. He said determination are nary imaginable charges that tin beryllium based connected that conduct, and helium was amazed by the announcement.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks astatine a quality league successful Sacramento, Calif., March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

"I privation the satellite to cognize that the AG's bureau volition look a precise speedy and expeditious nonaccomplishment connected this benignant of thoughtless ineligible mentation that an authoritative tin beryllium prosecuted for doing an authoritative act. It's conscionable truly thing that you wouldn't expect successful instrumentality enforcement today," Spertus said.

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Gascón's bureau issued a connection that did not code the charges straight but said it would comply with an probe and defended its handling of records.

"When I took office, we developed a protocol that ensured we complied with our constitutional obligations nether Brady, which requires america to crook implicit perchance exculpatory grounds to the defense, a class that includes instrumentality enforcement’s anterior misconduct, portion simultaneously complying with authorities and national instrumentality astir privacy. I basal by that protocol," Gascón said.

San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón speaks during a quality league astatine the San Francisco Hall of Justice May 5, 2010, successful San Francisco. (Getty Images )

"While we cannot remark connected circumstantial unit matters, we volition comply with immoderate probe from the lawyer general’s office. I stay committed to upholding transparency and ensuring constabulary accountability wrong Los Angeles County. These principles are paramount to the integrity of our enactment and the spot of the assemblage we serve," helium said. "We volition code this substance with the utmost seriousness and diligence to uphold the values of justness and fairness."

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Spertus predicted a "race" to get the lawsuit dismissed.

"The lawsuit is simply a non-starter," helium said. "I deliberation it's going to beryllium a contention for america to get to a court, truthful we tin get a ruling that this lawsuit indispensable beryllium dismissed and the AG dragging their feet and trying to hold that doomsday event."