Florida’s highest court has rejected an effort by a suspended state attorney to get reinstated after she was removed from office last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Florida Supreme Court justices voted 6-1 Thursday to deny a petition from former State Attorney Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit, which serves metro Orlando.
FILE - Monique Worrell, the suspended elected state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, answers a question at a news conference in Orlando , Fla., Sept. 7, 2023. Florida ’s highest court rejected an effort by Worrell on Thursday, June 6, 2024, to get reinstated after she was removed from office last year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. FILE - Attorney Monique Worrell, of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, speaks during a news conference, Aug.
DeSantis claimed Worrell failed to prosecute crimes committed by minors and didn’t seek mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, putting the public in danger in her central Florida district.She argued that the state constitution only allows for the suspension of an elected official for egregious misconduct, and that she was simply doing her job as she saw fit.
Without that, anytime state attorneys make choices about which cases to prosecute, they “may also face suspension and replacement despite having been overwhelmingly elected by the voters of the circuit,” Labarga wrote., a twice-elected Democrat in Tampa, over Warren’s signing of pledges that he would not pursue criminal charges against seekers or providers of abortion or gender transition treatments as well as his policies on not bringing charges for certain low-level crimes.
DeSantis appointed Orange County Circuit Judge Andrew Bain to replace Worrell, and Bain and Worrell are expected to face off this year in an election for the position.
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