Rachel Mitchell

From the politics desk, Wayne Shutsky has the latest.

After HEAP used the federal SAVE database to identify 60 suspected non-citizens who may have voted in past elections, county attorney Rachel Mitchell announced an investigation found 52 of those people were actually citizens.

But the attorney general's office says HEAP has not restored voting rights for 25 of those people.

Now, Attorney General Chris Mays and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes have filed a complaint in Maricopa County Superior Court asking a judge to force him to do just that.

Other agencies had kind of sat on the abuse at the hands of the Gilbert goons and really had done very little.

So in late December, the investigation was handed over to the Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell's office.

And after poring over the 1,100-page report, an investigative grand jury began hearing the case in February of 2024.

They received the medical examiner's report a week later confirming the cause of death as homicide.

And so that was the reason that I started lecturing and training medical professionals on how to identify victims, what they do if they do come into that situation, trauma informed interviews to make sure that we don't mess up anything that.

Rachel Mitchell needs to do down at the county when she gets her hands on these cases.

And I just, yeah, wanted to make sure that I was representing everyone in the same way that I grew up so that our communities are safe.

Very good reasons to run for an office.

And seven months later, she would find herself in deep trouble.

By January 29, 2025, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office had a warrant.

They sent a 16-officer SWAT team to Laura's house.

All of you guys, seriously.

And this time, it was for what she had done to Greg Gillespie in 2021.

The second indictment is for perjury, fraudulent schemes and artifices, two counts of identity theft, two counts of forgery, and theft by extortion.

And much of the evidence against Laura Owens came from a 118-page investigation report by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.

And there are four big bombshells that shaped the prosecution's case.

I think it's a good thing.

Very quickly, when it comes to some of the biggest legal cases in Maricopa County, Rachel Mitchell, the county attorney, is a powerful attorney and expert at prosecuting sexual assault cases.

She was also very, very integral in the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

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And, um, there has to be consequences.

And, um, I think Rachel Mitchell knew that when she was investigating Laura, like, they understood, like, there's a lot of attention on this.

And I think the more that they, you know, like maybe the judge isn't aware of the doc- of, of, um, you know, the podcast or whatever and all of the press around it, uh, but, um, it's, it's, it, it's like it's not about making an example of her.

It's just understanding, more so in today's world, the damage that can be done from lying about somebody.