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Hey DeSantis, I hope you're watching this. I sure am glad the state attorney general is, because State Attorney Monique Worrell appears to be out of control. Yes, this lady's office dropped charges against a man who possessed infant and child pornography ... And then refused to prosecute a man who was pleasuring himself in the park in front of kids because she claims that act isn't illegal. [Warning: Language] All things that are wrong are not illegal. And I'm not standing here telling you today that what happened in that park was wrong. He was touching himself by the...

A shadowy for-profit company and its nonprofit counterpart provide free services to at least 40 far-left prosecutor offices, raising questions about whether it’s working on behalf of taxpayers or of donors who have essentially bought government. The Wren Collective is a shadowy group that emerged from a Cold War-era initiative aimed at promoting Soviet films in the United States. Its current iteration — funded by a former Enron executive and host of other leftist megadonors — claims that America’s “system of policing and mass incarceration is deeply flawed and intractably racist.” The group has intervened on specific criminal cases, written...

Florida’s highest court on Thursday rejected an effort by a suspended state attorney to get reinstated after she was removed from office last year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in his second suspension of a Democratic prosecutor. Supreme Court justices voted 6-1 to deny a petition from suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit, which serves metro Orlando. The majority of justices said they disagreed with her arguments that DeSantis’ reasons for suspending her were too vague or that the suspension infringed on her lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion. DeSantis claimed Worrell failed to prosecute crimes committed...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Senator Rick Scott are demanding answers from the Orlando prosecutor whose office failed to keep the 19-year-old gangster who killed a journalist and nine-year-old girl off the streets despite his long rap sheet. ... Moses had been arrested 19 times in the past on suspicion of an array of crimes including grand theft, burglary and attempted murder. Most of the offenses occurred when he was a juvenile, so the outcome of the arrests is unknown.