Rave promoter Reza Gerami leaves a downtown Los Angeles courthouse after a hearing earlier this week in the L.A. The developments follow a series of embarrassing blunders by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office that defense lawyers said amounted to prosecutorial misconduct. At the time of Lynch’s plea, some legal experts said they were puzzled that the district attorney’s office did not insist on jail time. He will pay $150,000 to Los Angeles County and serve three years of probation. A year ago, the district attorney’s office had to remove another prosecutor who was spearheading the Coliseum team, Dana Aratani, for mishandling evidence.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 04, 2016 20:45 UTC