Maricopa County Attorney's Office
The prosecutor for metro Phoenix: charging decisions, police-shooting reviews, plea and sentencing practices, the 2020 protest gang-charge scandal, and the county attorney's record on transparency.
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- Next steps in Preston Lord case submitted to Maricopa County attorney
- 3 dead in Phoenix murder-suicide; suspect ID’d as widower to fmr. Maricopa Co. attorney Allister Adel
- Police Investigating Christmas Eve Murder Suicide By Widower Of Allister Adel
- Maricopa County attorney files second death penalty notice against man who allegedly killed his cellmate
- MCAO won't prosecute driver who caused Goodyear crash that killed 2 cyclists
- MCAO won't prosecute fatal bike crash suspect
- Maricopa County attorney indicts 2 California women for string of retail burglaries
- Bill Montgomery is too biased and needs to recuse in abortion ban case, Planned Parenthood says
- Díaz and Montini: Justice Bill Montgomery should recuse himself from abortion case
- Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell testifies why she fired high-level protest prosecutor
- Top prosecutor testifies he told Allister Adel about protest gang case
- Disciplinary trial begins against fired MCAO prosecutor
- Why did county attorney Rachel Mitchell appear at an anti-LGBTQ hate group’s event?
- Mesa man arrested for 3rd alleged sex assault; MCAO didn’t pursue previous case
- County Attorney Rachel Mitchell reduces case backlog, but challenges remain
- Maricopa County Attorney’s Office files motion to ‘protect’ Lake and her attorneys from liability
- Database: MCAO’s more secretive ‘Brady’ list
- Republicans censure Rachel Mitchell for daring to try to hold Kari Lake accountable
- Maricopa County attorney reviewing murder suspect's prior plea deal after Lauren Heike's death
- Maricopa County Attorney backs victim’s family in push for killer’s execution
- Message from Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell
- Officers involved in violent arrest in October won't face charges, MCAO says
- ‘I see things now that I’ve never seen before’: the Maricopa county attorney fighting false election claims