A trial-setting conference in Anchorage Superior Court has been set in the case of former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, whose election misconduct trial ended in a deadlocked jury on Dec. 2, 2024.
The Alaska Court System has logged in notices of expert witness, Tom Amodio, who will likely be there on LeDoux’s behalf, and “State’s Criminal Rule 7(e),” which indicates the State will attempt to amend the indictments that resulted in the hung jury and try the case again.
Sources say the criminal rule filing is unrelated to any decision about a second trial and that the court had precluded the defense from calling Amodio at the first trial, but LeDoux’s lawyers have filed a subsequent notice of expert for him, which is likely a request for the court to reconsider that decision if there is a second trial.
The State of Alaska has option not to continue, but the trial-setting conference signals it has made the decision that it still has a case.
The case goes back to elections in 2018, when LeDoux, a sitting House representative from Anchorage, was actively working her campaign in the Hmong community of Cambodian and Laotian immigrants living in the Muldoon neighborhood of Anchorage. LeDoux brought in a Laotian campaign worker from California, Charlie Chang, whom she paid $10,000 to register people to vote and help them get their ballots in.
Soon after, Chang died mysteriously in California. A state investigator on the case, John Lehe, was t-boned in a car accident was brain-injured and could not continue.
After a two-year investigation that included the FBI, the Alaska Department of Law charged LeDoux with election misconduct, including five felony charges and several misdemeanors. She was accused of pressuring voters who were not in her district to vote for her.
Two people associated with the LeDoux campaign pleaded guilty to similar charges and were witnesses at the LeDoux trial, implicating LeDoux as the puppet master of the allegedly illegal voting and registering scheme.
The original trial had been delayed four times before finally moving to oral arguments this fall, in a trial that ended in a mistrial.
(This story will be updated.)
You got to be kidding me.?? She is as guilty as a horse thief. How much money is this costing the Alaskan tax payer.??
Mr. Glenn: Were you on the jury?
Another ledoux redoux…
Like that is so constitutional. Who gives a flop about the US Constitution eh Alaskan dum-dums? Defend the God given principles of our foundational law of creation for once you cretins. No do overs!! If you don’t get your pre programmed curly verdict.
The self declared power revoked the US Constitution by forcing jury trials over and over again to vanquish the effect of the US Constitution in Alaska. Business as usual.
I am reporting this to the proper authorities.
Deadlocked means not guilty in America. That is the verdict given by Alaskan’s. No do overs regardless of the popularity of the unconstitutional custom of trying and retrying on the same facts. What good is jury duty since it means nothing to the public servants?