Los Angeles County District Attorney has been sued for workplace retaliation…again. I’ve lost track of how many this makes so far. Gascon lost the first one that went to trial last year, despite testifying on his own behalf. He was ordered to pay $1.5 million in that case. A couple months ago the LA Times reported there were 14 more cases pending. So I guess that makes this one case number 16 brought against him by his own staff.
The gist of this is that Deputy District Attorney Shea Sanna says he was retaliated against after he leaked information on a defendant who admitted in jailhouse telephone conversations that he was pretending to be trans in order to avoid a male prison. One of the justifications for the demotion Sanna received was that he had misgendered this same defendant.
I’ve written about the case of James Tubbs before. In 2014, when Tubbs was 17, he followed a…
