Diana Becton is facing a challenge from a longtime prosecutor within her office, Mary Knox, who has an active federal lawsuit against Becton.
MARTINEZ — Four years after Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton withstood a challenge from her political right, she appears to have another viable opponent who is running against the recent wave of progressive justice reformist DAs across California.
Becton — appointed in 2017 after a campaign fund embezzlement scandal saw the former county DA resign and plead no contest to felony perjury — has run on her record of policies intended to make the justice system fairer for everyone.
She’s also aligned herself with fellow progressive DAs Chesa Boudin, George Gascon, and Tori Verber Salazar to form a “Prosecutor’s Alliance,” but unlike her counterparts in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Becton has stopped short of abolishing the use of gang enhancements and other charges that add prison time to a defendant’s sentence.
Serving as a backdrop to the DA race is the recent prosecution of former Contra Costa Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall, the first law enforcement officer ever prosecuted for an on-duty shooting in the county’s history. Becton brought felony manslaughter charges against Hall two-and-a-half years after he shot and killed Laudemer Arboleda during a 2018 slow speed chase in Danville, and a month after Hall shot and killed a second man while on-duty.
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