{"id":179738,"date":"2023-08-09T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=179738"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:16:24","slug":"desantis-decisively-suspends-second-elected-prosecutor-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=179738","title":{"rendered":"<h1>DeSantis Decisively Suspends Second Elected Prosecutor in Florida<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Posted by <em>DNYUZ<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida suspended the top state prosecutor in Orlando on Wednesday, accusing her of incompetence and neglect of duty for what he characterized as lenience against violent criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. DeSantis suspended Monique H. Worrell, the elected state attorney of Florida\u2019s Ninth Judicial Circuit, which includes Orange and Osceola counties, and cited her handling of three cases. One involved a man who\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2023\/08\/05\/manhunt-underway-for-shooter-who-wounded-2-orlando-police-officers-chief-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot and injured<\/a>\u00a0two Orlando police officers over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time in a year that Mr. DeSantis, a Republican running for president, has taken the drastic and exceedingly rare step of removing an elected state attorney. Both have been Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Worrell was known to be in Mr. DeSantis\u2019s sights. He criticized her office earlier this year, and his general counsel sent her a letter seeking documents about previous arrests.<\/p>\n<p>In March, anticipating that she might be suspended, Ms. Worrell released data showing that her prosecution rate was similar to that of her predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2023\/08\/09\/desantis-suspends-second-elected-prosecutor-in-florida\/\">https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2023\/08\/09\/desantis-suspends-second-elected-prosecutor-in-florida\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}