Former Alaska Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux’s election fraud retrial has been delayed yet again, as her legal team secured an additional extension on March 24, granted by Judge Kevin Saxby.
This delay of a trial-setting conference continues a pattern of postponements that have characterized the case since charges were first filed in 2020.
LeDoux, now 76, faces 12 charges, including five felonies, related to allegations that she encouraged people who did not reside in her district to vote for her during the 2014 and 2018 elections. She has maintained her innocence, pleading not guilty to all charges.
The trial has experienced multiple delays over the years. In July 2024, proceedings were postponed due to the late submission of new evidence by the prosecution. In November, the trial began but was further extended as jury deliberations continued beyond the Thanksgiving holiday. A mistrial was declared on Dec. 2.
Two of LeDoux’s associates, former campaign aide Lisa (Vaught) Simpson and Caden Vaught, entered plea agreements on misdemeanor charges and have apparently agreed to testify against her.
LeDoux was initially charged five years ago this month, after an extensive investigation that included the Federal Bureau of Investigation. LeDoux, who left office in January of 2021, had served in the Alaska Legislature from 2005-2008 and 2013-2021, when she lost to Rep. David Nelson.
Just more evidence of a corrupt judicial system working in collusion with other corrupt individuals and/or parties that further the agendas of our thoroughly corrupt Govt.
Release the Grand Jury Report Judge Matthews on systemic judicial corruption. What are you hiding from the public?
Delay. Deny. Defend .
The three D’s that defense attorneys use, in that order, to protect their clients. If prosecutors can’t get past the first D, they’ve already lost their case.
Yep
Liberal judges. They are destroying our country.
Make one proud to be an Alaskan. Let the Minnesota bashing begain.
The Alaska swamp doesn’t want a trial or any news stories about vote cheating.
Because, you know, election cheating doesn’t exist in the swamp.
Just in our small, deplorable, minds.
Give us Kevin saxby’s phone number so we the people can call him & let him know an oath to GOD matters first & foremost to JESUS & WE THE PEOPLE
No surprise here, no sense being a democrat communist if you cant be crooked and have a crooked court approve.
You guys don’t feel very beholden to the US Constitution do ya? You are exceptionally spiritually ruminant. When the jury does not agree to a “guilty” verdict it does not mean “try again”. It means “not guilty”. Didn’t you learn that in “schoo”?
Ahem I really expect better from you AG! Her first trial ended in a MISTRIAL! That does not mean the jury declared her “not guilty”, but they could not agree on a verdict, meaning some had doubts about her innocence. Under our constitution the state is free to try her again, as double jeopardy does not attach to a mistrial.
Of course we will all be dead and gone by the time her team runs out of reasons for continuances. For her legal beagles this is lifetime income and for the people it is justice denied!