Opinion: Maricopa County attorney candidates Rachel Mitchell and Julie Gunnigle offer vastly different views of the criminal justice system we should have.
How would Republican Rachel Mitchell and Democrat Julie Gunnigle handle abortion law? They explain that and much more in a wide-ranging interview.is a rarity in this year’s Arizona midterm election packed with conspiracy theorists, election deniers and white supremacists.
And those are just the latest scandals that have roiled the agency and forced the departure of County Attorney Allister Adel, who a short time afterward. Mitchell was appointed to fill the position until voters decide Nov. 8 on a successor to serve the remainder of Adel’s term. Gunnigle seeks to set up an independent unit to hold prosecutors and police accused of wrongdoing accountable. This is especially important after the recent scandal involving prosecutors colluding with Phoenix officers to charge street protesters as criminal gang members, cases which were later dismissed and resulted in a firing and demotions in both agencies as well as multimillion-dollar lawsuits.
Mitchell also pushes back against the notion that the office seeks only to put away people on lengthy sentences. She says under Adel and now her, the office gives prosecutors the latitude to balance justice and redemption.
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