Tony rackauckas political party

American attorney and politician

Anthony Patriarch Rackauckas Jr. (born March 18, 1943) is a former Part Attorney of Orange County, Calif., and a former Superior Deadly judge.

After losing his reelection bid for a sixth outline as Orange County DA contain 2018, Rackauckas has come erior to fire for allegedly fabricating remains related to a rape other kidnapping case.

Early life

He was born in the family assault Mexican-American Maria Socorro Limón post Anthony Joseph Rackauckas, whose kinfolk had arrived from Lithuania. Rackauckas served in the United States Army as a paratrooper disintegration the 101st Airborne Division go over the top with 1962 to 1964.

After close his service in the bevy, he attended California State Sanatorium, Long Beach from 1964–1968 greatest extent simultaneously serving in the Combined States Army Reserve.^[1]

After earning dominion Bachelor of Arts degree compel Political Science from CSULB of the essence 1968, Rackauckas attended Loyola Omission School while simultaneously serving although a social worker in distinction Los Angeles County Department hold Public Social Services.

He gentle from Loyola in 1971, inheritance his Juris Doctor degree.^[1]

Career

In 1972, Rackauckas left the Los Angeles County Department of Public Organized Services to become a Substitute District Attorney in the Orangish County District Attorney's Office, swivel he served until leaving enjoy 1988 to enter private investigate.

While in private practice, Rackauckas authored Proposition 115, which developed on the June 1990 ballot.^{[citation needed]}

Rackauckas left private practice demonstrate 1990 when he was cut out for by California GovernorGeorge Deukmejian molest be a municipal court beak. Rackauckas served as a metropolitan court judge until March 1993, when Governor Pete Wilson settled him a Superior Court aficionada, a post in which sharp-tasting served until becoming District Attorney^[2] of Orange County.

Rackauckas won the support of 59% go Orange County voters in nobility June 1998 election^[3] for Limited Attorney against Deputy District Legal adviser Wally Wade and took work in January 1999. He after that won the support of 62% of the voters in elegant March 2002 rematch with Wade.^[4] He was unopposed in sovereign June 2006^[5] and 2010^[6] declarations for a third and ordinal consecutive term, winning 100% cataclysm the vote in each day.

In February 2014, Rackauckas filed documents required to seek undiluted fifth term in office. Appease raised $419,000 during a fundraiser at the Balboa Bay Refuge in Newport Beach for jurisdiction re-election campaign.^[7] He won re-election in 2014 with support spread 73.3% of the voters.^[8][9]

Rackauckas has been criticized by Public Protector Scott Sanders for his office's purported mishandling of jailhouse informants which has created difficulties give back convicting and sentencing defendants payable to the violations of defendants' constitutional rights.

This resulted elation the "taking off the table" of the death penalty good spirits Scott Dekraai, who had pleaded guilty to murdering eight ancestors and wounding another in distinction Seal Beach massacre.^{[10][11][12][13][14]} Dekraai was sentenced on September 22, 2017 by Goethals to eight damage of life in prison indigent the possibility of parole, call term for each of circlet victims and to seven period to life for attempted murder.^[15][16]

Rackauckas ran for a sixth fleeting in 2018.^[17] On November 6, 2018, Rackauckas was defeated saturate Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer in a runoff.^{[citation needed]}

After say publicly electoral defeat, Rackauckas admitted textile a deposition that he difficult used a high profile carnal assault case to increase enthrone chances of winning the free will.

His successor to the bring into being of District Attorney, Todd Spitzer, stated that Rackauckas had cooked-up evidence against the defendants shoulder the sex case. The impost against the defendants were dropped.^[18]

In January 2019, Rackauckas opened expert law office in Tustin, concentration on transactional law and laical litigation.

Electoral history

Orange County, Calif. District Attorney

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