Legal Ethics
Deputy Calif. DA is Charged in Alleged Rape of Colleague
Posted Nov 21, 2008, 01:15 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Michael Gressett, 51, who is a 20-year prosecutor assigned to the sex crimes unit of the Contra Costa County, Calif., district attorney's office, has been charged and arraigned in the alleged May 8 daytime rape at Gressett's home of a fellow deputy district attorney, according to news accounts.
Gressett pleaded not guilty this morning in Contra Costa County Superior Court to 12 charges that included rape, sodomy and oral copulation, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
If he is convicted on all counts, he could be sentenced to as much as life in prison, according to Peter Flores, a deputy state attorney general. The state AG's office is prosecuting the case because the defendant and his accuser… Continue reading...
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