The 12 jurors in the election misconduct trial of former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux were not able to come to a decision on the 12 counts against her. The judge declared it a mistrial due to deadlock. Whether Department of Law prosecutors will try the case again is yet to be determined.
LeDoux, who moved from Kodiak to the Muldoon area so that she could then run for state House, was accused by the state of encouraging people to register and vote in her district when she knew they didn’t live in the district. The charges included five felony charges.
The case had many twists and turns, with one key witness and campaign employee, Charlie Chang of California, dying in 2018. He had been hired to bring in the vote of the Hmong community.
But two associated with the case did not die. One, then-legislative aide Lisa Simpson, pleaded guilty and testified against LeDoux, as did Caden Vaught, who is Simpson’s son who was apparently taken advantage of in the alleged scheme.
In her defense, LeDoux had testified that she never wanted her campaign to do anything illegal, arguing that she was misunderstood. But after a two-year investigation, which involved the FBI due to federal candidates being on the ballots during the timeframe of the elections, the State Department of Law concluded that there was actual election fraud taking place.
I how question the Judge’s INSTRUCTION to the jury? This jury should have had a slam dunk on these violation of Election Laws. Alaska’s prosecutors / defense attorneys made a mockery of the trial presentation on both sides ” ‘https://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/extra/article_5ba7292c-adfe-11ef-be39-b3da343ce5d5.html
Size it up for your selves…. Liberty Ed
Of Course!!
Is it possible that she will rise from the ashes of “Mulldoom” like a Phoenix and get to campaign again? In Alaska that is likely. Just like our friends Cathy and Bryce, the gifts that keep on giving. Little has changed in the 27 years since I was homeless living in the Muldoon campground. The little that things change, the more they stay the same.
Am wondering how much the investigation and trial cost our State and Federal governments.
How much the investigation and trial cost our State and Federal governments.
So much for election integrity.
Cheat away, you sleazy power freaks.
Charlie Chang and PePe have moved on. Next case, please.
And, because there is no conviction, all the leftists on MRAK will claim it is proof that vote fraud does not exist, and there is no evidence of it whatsoever.
It doesn’t take a leftists to know that in America, you are innocent until proven guilty. You know this thought because trump is innocent,,,,right?
What does that have to do with my statement above?
I will repeat.
Leftists on MRAK have made it clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that without a conviction there is no evidence of election fraud. That is not my statement, that is what they have said. No evidence whatsoever. Not because there is no evidence, but because they refused to believe the mountain of evidence was relevant without a conviction.
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Innocence and guilt have NOTHING to do with my statement. The outcome of this trial will continue to support the delusional belief that election fraud does not exist.
Anyone that is in doubt can now see that the left wing activists for the corrupt remain untouched, no matter how corrupt they become. LeDoux is a vehicle to obstruct any conservative action and to perpetuate the left wing idiocy. The judiciary is in synch with these societal destroyers.
When LeDoux first moved to Anchorage from Kodiak, she was at the Republican party held at Kincaid Park. She was working as a greeter at the sign-in table and was enthusiastically shaking hands with everyone. I’m kind of a people person but I was surprised at my own “innate” reaction to her. After shaking her hand, I felt like George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life” after shaking hands with Mr. Potter. I wanted to wipe my hand off. I have rarely felt that way toward anyone on first meeting.
One is either found guilty by a jury of one’s visonage; or not. No do overs. Not guilty.
LeDoux was my rep when I lived in Muldoon. She’s the only one who ever knocked on my door and she did it every other year. I was just a poor mama of 4 and she’d listen and respond.
Given the way our legal system has been over the years, I’m glad she’s not in jail.