Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Shea Sanna is filing a lawsuit against George Soros-funded District Attorney George Gascón, alleging he was subjected to a “retaliation campaign” after he misgendered a transgender child predator, who was later found guilty of molesting a 10-year-old girl.
Sanna repeatedly referred to Hannah Tubbs, a transgender woman, as a man while prosecuting him for sexually assaulting a child.
However, the case’s judge rebuked Sanna and a superior at the district attorney’s office for not using the correct pronouns.
The deputy district attorney was later suspended without pay after the district attorney’s office found he intentionally “misgendered” Tubbs.
“Tubbs is a violent sex offender,” Sanna said in 2020 after a judge reminded him that the defendant identified as a female, The Los Angeles Times reported.
In 2023, Tubbs pled guilty to manslaughter for beating his friend to death with a rock in 2019, according to Fox News.
Tubbs was tried when he was 17 after he assaulted the 10-year-old girl, The Los Angeles Times reported.
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Sanna wanted to have Tubbs face trial as an adult but was stopped by Gascón’s policies.
Tubbs was ultimately sentenced to two years in a youth facility.
The Daily Caller reported:
Gascón announced shortly after taking office in December 2020 that his office would no longer be prosecuting select crimes, including trespassing, disturbing the peace, driving without a license or a suspended license, making criminal threats, drug possession, drinking in public, loitering to commit prostitution and resisting arrest, according to ABC 7, a local affiliate. Crime ticked up during his first year in office, with homicide increasing by 11.8% in areas patrolled by the Los Angeles Police Department, CBS News reported. Sanna repeatedly criticized Gascón’s policies, calling some of them “bullshit,” according to The Los Angeles Times.
“For the past two years, Gascon has tried to silence me,” Sanna said in a press release from Dhillon Law Group, the firm representing him.
“He has suspended me without pay, threatened my livelihood, attacked my credibility, tarnished my reputation, demoted me, investigated me, and harassed me, all so I would obey him, so I would stay quiet, so I wouldn’t speak up on behalf of those most affected by his misguided political policies.”
In the lawsuit, Sanna claims Gascón prevented him from introducing jailhouse recordings from Tubbs, establishing that his transgender identity was simply a ploy to achieve a more lenient sentence.
Gascón admitted that Tubbs was using his purported transgender identity in an attempt to evade punishment, according to Fox News Digital.
“I became aware last Thursday of the contents of that call, and the contents of that call were extremely disturbing to me because it showed a level of callousness and a level of disrespect for humanity from an individual that I had previously felt, given her conditions when the crime had originally occurred, she needed to be prosecuted as a juvenile,” he said.
“As a result of reviewing the contents of that particular jail call, I came to the conclusion that this person was gaming the system.”
CBS News reported that Gascón also admitted that the two-year sentence in juvenile custody was likely too lenient.
“In the Tubbs case, Deputy District Attorney Shea Sanna did nothing but seek to uphold his ethical and legal duties to present all relevant evidence to the court,” Anthony Fusaro, Sanna’s attorney, said in Dhillon Law Group’s press release.
“Yet because this evidence conflicted with D.A. Gascon’s recently enacted policies and public statements, Gascon sought to suppress it. When Mr. Sanna informed his supervisors and the public of Gascon’s suppression efforts, Gascon responded with a relentless retaliation campaign against Mr. Sanna that persists to this day.”
