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Former prosecutor sparred with DA over race comments

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By AMY TAXIN
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Documents released Wednesday say a now-fired prosecutor raised concerns about remarks made by a California district attorney about a Black defendant in a double murder case. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer says he did nothing wrong and that the prosecutor wrote the account in a memo while he was under investigation for another case he prosecuted. Ebrahim Baytieh wrote in December that Spitzer asked about the race of a defendant’s prior girlfriends or victims during a meeting about whether to seek the death penalty. The memo came to light days after Baytieh was fired following the investigation into the other case. A message left for Baytieh was not immediately returned.

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