The six-term sheriff submitted a one-sentence letter to the county, indicating she was stepping down effective Monday; her civil corruption trial is in jury deliberations.
by evading gift-reporting laws and resisting a civilian auditor’s probe into a high-profile jail-injury case.
A guilty verdict on just one of the counts would have expelled her from office. A jury began deliberating the case Friday following closing arguments the previous day, which capped about a month of testimony. She might have anticipated at least one guilty verdict, given that three of the counts were fairly straightforward in asking jurors to assess whether she, which would have exceeded gift limits for elected officials from a single source, and if she intentionally hid the suite use by buying nosebleed seats to disguise her attendance at the Feb. 14, 2019 hockey game.
In his reaction to the resignation, Jonsen said in statement: “It brings closure to the state’s first female sheriff and begins a new chapter for the organization, obviously one I hope to be part of in moving it forward.”“More than a year ago, I publicly called for Sheriff Laurie Smith to resign, and she has belatedly heeded that call.
Supervisor Otto Lee, who along with outgoing Supervisor Joe Simitian led the initial political charge against Smith last fall — a
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