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PHOENIX — Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell testified that she decided to fire a high-profile prosecutor because of a pattern of overcharging defendants, ignoring evidentiary concerns, and making outrageous claims to grand juries.
But during the fallout from the scandal, Mitchell said she was assigned to review some of Sponsel’s other protest prosecutions, including the controversial case against activist Bruce Franks Jr. “There were several instances where she was being told, ‘You don’t have the evidence, the body cameras don’t match what you’ve charged these people with,’” said Mitchell who testified during the disciplinary trial. “That’s a run, don’t walk, to your nearest computer monitor to review it, and that didn’t happen.”
Sponsel’s attorney, Ernie Calderon, questioned Mitchell about whether she knew that several of Sponsel’s supervisors approved of her plan of how to prosecute protesters.RELATED: Top prosecutor testifies he told Adel about protest gang case
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