Assemblyman Ted Lieu confident in Attorney General run
Assemblyman Ted LieuA month ago South Bay Assemblyman Ted Lieu would have called rival Kamala Harris the frontrunner in the race for attorney general in the Democratic Party primary election Tuesday. But that was before a series of “exploding scandals” dogged her campaign. Now, Lieu said, he has even more reasons for confidence in his own candidacy. Harris, the San Francisco District Attorney who entered the race with the best-known name among the seven Democratic hopefuls, has been battling negative headlines. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that numerous criminal convictions are at risk because Harris’ prosecutors lacked a legally mandated system for informing defense lawyers about potential credibility problems of police witnesses, and that a coroner’s supervising toxicologist vouched for blood-test results in DUI cases for two years before defense attorneys were told that a court had labeled her a “perpetrator of fraud.” In addition, a judge concluded that Harris’ office violated defendants’ rights by hiding information about a now-retired crime lab technician who has become embroiled in a cocaine-skimming scandal that led prosecutors to dismiss more than 600 drug…
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